And you thought multitouch gestures were annoying – how about mashing your whole hand on your screen to close an app or rapping on it with your knuckle to summon Siri (or Iris?). A new techn... Read more
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES
NEW IDEAS
- A potential super wheat that actually thrives in salty soils
- A new source of vitamin D from gene-edited tomatoes
- Plucking drinking water from desert air with a low cost gel film
- New cost-effective method for carbon capture from coal-fired power plants in particular
- Could a new bio-glue mean an end to surgical sutures and staples?
- Using a reusable photocatalyst and sunlight to extract hydrogen gas at significantly less expense
- A novel preclinical drug that could have the potential to combat depression, brain injury and diseases that impair cognition
- A low cost, low power technology to help robots accurately map their way indoors using WiFi
- A new haptics method for computers to achieve that true texture
- Could gene editing actually alter the social behavior of animals?