Augmented Reality And Assisted Vision In a Contact Lens
Mojo Vision have developed a prototype contact lens with a built in display to give your eyes that old AR treatment. They are designed to be far more unobtrusive than Google…
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We Have Winners; The 2019 Hackaday Prize Results
The winning project for this years Hackaday Prize is called FieldKit, and while it isn't quite as advanced as a tricorder it can certainly fulfill a similar purpose in even...
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Blink Twice To Zoom And Enhance
A common science fiction trick has come closer to reality, thanks to researchers from the University of California San Diego. When your eye moves or you blink, electrooculographic signals are...
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SpaceX Serious Satellite Internet
There is a benefit to living in Florida, the chance to watch SpaceX do their thing in person which is what inspired The Tech Report to take a look at SpaceX's Starlink…
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Mega Sega reboot, Analogue’s Sg FPGA
If you haven't run into it yet, the Sega Mg is a $190 FPGA powered device with can play any any region's Genesis or Mega Drive cartridges, and has a connector for…
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Now that’s truly flexible programming!
Researchers from Harvard University and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have shown off a very interesting bit of kit, a flexible logic gate for use in soft robotics. That type…
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The incredible stretch … circuit?
There have been several foldable screens shown off at CES and other shows, though no prototypes have made it into our hands as of yet. For the most part they seem to…
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Look ma, no keyboard!
Anitomicals C is a inventive computer enthusiast who has built his own version of Microsoft's large PixelSense workspace (once called Surface); a dual touchscreen desktop machine. It looks like a laptop in…
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Come on let’s go Space Garbage Truckin’
Kessler syndrome, aka the Kessler effect, describes a critical point that space garbage in low earth orbit could reach which would effectively trap us on the planet. Not only that, it…
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Boron arsenide; cool as diamonds but somewhat less expensive
Thermal interface material boffins will expound the benefits of using diamond to improve the thermal conductivity of pastes and would go so far as to suggest they should be included in chip…
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Computers can now read that poker face you are so proud of
AlterEgo is a project from MIT to allow you to interface with a computer via neuromuscular face twitches, translating subtle movements into text. You need to wear a sensor which looks a…
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Design a thing, win a prize; change the world?
Last years grand prize winner of the Hack a Day prize picked up $50,000 for creating the Open Source Underwater Glider, an autonomous underwater vehicle which uses a buoyancy engine instead…
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The winners of the first stage of The HackaDay Prize
The first of the five rounds of The Hackaday Prize has completed and the winners announced. This stage is the Design Your Concept stage, often the most important factor in...
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DRAM just doesn’t have the torque to compete in the future
Good news has arrived for those watching the development of the next type of storage medium, there has been new information about Spin Transfer Torque MRAM published. One of the major hurdles…
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Have some happy news for a change; aerogel made from recycled paper
With the depressing news about security holes below the fold it seemed appropriate to post something positive before you get depressed about PDFs, fonts and other such things. This morning...
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On-die watercooling
These researchers are skipping the waterblock altogether and have made channels in surface of the die its self for de-ionized water to flow through and cool the chip. The 28-nanometer Altera FPGA…
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Kids these days and their Raspberry Pi’s
The Raspberry Pi and its various flavours have been out for a while now and we have heard of a variety of projects developers and hobbyists have come up with but
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Windows Server 2012 R2, now featuring a clipboard shared across VMs
If you play with VM's in a Windows environment you have probably gotten quite good at using FTP as that was the easiest way to copy files or even text between two…
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