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Meredith Perry turned 22 this month. She just graduated from college and started a new company built around a technology she recently invented. There’s plenty of bad economic news these days, but Perry and her company, called UBeam, are trying to defy it — she’s hiring and entertaining funding offers from investors. Perry’s invention: a

The two companies essentially committed suicide. The shutdown of two small e-mail providers on Thursday illustrates why it is so hard for Internet companies to challenge secret government surveillance: to protect their customers’ data from federal authorities, the two companies essentially committed suicide. Lavabit, a Texas-based service that was reportedly used by Edward J. Snowden,

He suspects that such semiconductors could replace nerves in the body that have been damaged by disease or injury. New technology under development at The Ohio State University is paving the way for low-cost electronic devices that work in direct contact with living tissue inside the body. The first planned use of the technology is

This effect is called ‘quantum levitation’ Maglev trains have been in development since before Luke Skywalker drove his first Land Speeder but, like personal rocket packs, the idea of levitating transport is taking a while to catch on. While this “quantum levitation” demonstration shown by the superconductivity group at Tel Aviv University at the 2011

There’s a new solar panel kit for homeowners out there. It’s a new system that simply plugs into a 230V wall plug and provides power for your home. We interviewed Jim Greene, founder of SpinRay Energy (the company that’s created it), to learn more about this exciting new development. Could you briefly describe the SolarPod?

Empa researchers have succeeded in developing an environmentally friendly ink for 3D printing based on cellulose nanocrystals. This technology can be used to fabricate microstructures with outstanding mechanical properties, which have promising potential uses in implants and other biomedical applications. In order to produce 3D microstructured materials for composite applications, for instance, Empa researchers have

Emma’s “magic arms” are amongst the greatest uses we can imagine for the technology A two year old girl born with arthrogryposis, a congenital disease that left her unable to lift her own arms, although able to walk, has been given a new lease on life by a 3D printed robotic exoskeleton, enabling her to

Tough, cheap and 100 percent recyclable Spartanburg, South Carolina, is home to one of the largest privately owned chemical and textile research establishments in the world, Milliken & Company. The firm’s innovative research that combines textiles and chemistry has now produced a thermoplastic composite called Tegris that is cheap, recyclable and tough. These properties make

As thousands of bridges, parking garages and other structures age, improved methods for detecting deterioration could save lives and prevent economic disruption. Major bridge failures in recent years have focused attention on the need to monitor America’s highway bridges and other infrastructure. As thousands of bridges, parking garages and other structures age, improved methods for

When most people think of wind power they think of large-scale wind farms with fields of huge three-bladed horizontal axis turbines. With such farms requiring lots of room they are generally unsuitable for placement in or even near large cities. Smaller turbines tailored for urban environments such as AeroVironment’s Architectural Wind System, the Honeywell Windgate and the Windspire