Category: tomorrow

MIT sleep monitor can track people’s sleeping positions using radio signals

[ad_1] The team trained their creation’s neural network and tested its accuracy by gathering 200 hours of sleep data from 26 subjects who had to wear sensors on their chest and belly in the beginning. They said that after training the device on a week’s worth of data, it predicted the subject’s correct body posture […]

Baidu’s Apollo Go robotaxi service arrives in Beijing

[ad_1] Baidu launched its Apollo Go robotaxi service in the Chinese cities of Changsha and Cangzhou back in August, shortly after announcing that its autonomous driving computer is ready for use on the streets. Now, Apollo Go has also made its way to Beijing, making it the first autonomous car service operating in the nation’s […]

Cornell’s VibroSense makes appliances ‘smart’ by tracking their vibrations

[ad_1] VibroSense’s creators see their creation as a tool to help people monitor energy usage in their homes, allowing them to reduce potentially wasteful consumption. VibroSense also promises to make your home “smart” without investing in new appliances or individual sensors for your existing ones. They say you could also use it to reduce water […]

Researchers created a Game Boy that doesn’t need batteries

[ad_1] Instead, all you need to play this Game Boy, officially called the Engage, for hours on end is some sunlight and frantic button mashing. The solar panels attached to the front of the device provide its primary source of power, with your button presses helping to generate additional power. It’s not a perfect system […]

Hitting the Books: Lessons learned from gaming with the King of Sweden

[ad_1] I looked at the email in slight disbelief. (In my head it came with an appropriately elaborate font.) Dear Managing Director David Polfeldt, Would you be so kind as to give his Royal Majesty a tour of your company?  The King of Sweden? Really?! When did a video game studio become eligible for an […]

White House issues ‘SPD-5’ cybersecurity policy for space

[ad_1] The Trump administration’s latest Space Policy Directive, SPD-5, details policies the government believes the country’s public and private space agencies should adopt to protect their systems from hacking threats. Some of the best practices the document recommends include that operators encrypt data they receive from their craft. They should also install physical measures to […]

Harvard created a wool-like 3D-printable material that can shape shift

[ad_1] It’s made using keratin extracted from recycled wool. Keratin is a fibrous protein that’s found in hair, which, of course, has a habit of returning to its natural form. The researchers shaped a single chain of keratin into a spring-like structure. They twisted two of those together and used many such “coiled coils” to […]

Rocket Lab secretly launched its own satellite that may one day go to the Moon

[ad_1] Normally, once the Kick Stage does its job, Rocket Lab de-orbits it to burn up in the atmosphere. However, this time it sent a command that switched it into Photon satellite mode to continue on a standalone mission called “First Light.” Intended as a demonstration, it’s equipped with solar panels and a camera that […]