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Forget haptic feedback. When combined, two pieces of virtual-reality tech offer an immersive gaming experience that puts you in the middle of the action. Texas-based startup Virtuix posted a YouTube video Thursday that demonstrates Omni, its treadmill-like “natural motion interface for virtual reality applications” that enables a user’s in-game avatar to mimic his or her real-life movements. The video shows

New guidelines could help improve power grid reliability and reduce electricity cost President Obama in this year’s State of the Union address talked about the future of energy and mentioned “self-healing power grids” — a grid that is able to keep itself stable during normal conditions and also to self-recover in the event of a

After touch screens, researchers demonstrate electronic recording and replay of human touch Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a breakthrough in technology that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store, edit and replay information in a dimension that goes beyond what we can see or hear: touch. “Touch was

It functions a bit like a satellite, except substantially cheaper and much more versatile. The largest robot in the AUVSI expo hall last week belonged to Titan Aerospace. It was a model of their Solara 50 robotic atmospheric satellite, and they had to chop off the tail and most of the wings to get it

SCIENTISTS have developed a new drug that could protect against damage to brain cells which are ravaged by Alzheimer’s disease. The breakthrough could mean a treatment is just a few years away from being available to patients. I’m now optimistic NitroMemantine will be effective as we advance to human trials, bringing new hope to both

Whenever a star ship was in distress, the Star Trek Enterprise could activate its tractor beam and drag the vessel to safety. And now, the technology is gradually moving out of the realm of science fiction and into reality. Scottish scientists claim to have created the most powerful version of a tractor beam to date

Mushrooms are another good natural food source for vitamin D Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25–hydroxyvitamin D) as taking supplemental vitamin D2 or vitamin D3. These findings will be presented at the American

Anticancer vaccines have gained a new lease of life with techniques to personalise them to individual patients. Cutting edge developments in this re-energised field were revealed at the ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress in Geneva, Switzerland. The original anticancer vaccines, launched in the late 1990s, were based on shared tumour antigens and failed to induce a potent immune response.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have developed a gene therapy that successfully treats a form of macular degeneration in a canine model. The work sets the stage for translating the findings into a human therapy for an inherited disease that results in a progressive loss of central vision and which is currently untreatable. The study, published