Via Sky News Dodging buses and cars in the morning rush hour could be a thing of the past for the hard-done-by cyclist – thanks to a new invention by a group of bike boffins.  Three companies in the Czech Republic have teamed up to make a prototype of an electric bicycle that is capable of flying. The amazing machine [...]

Via Discovery Next time you happen across an enormous cockroach, check to see whether it’s got a backpack on. Then look for the person controlling its movements with a phone. The RoboRoach has arrived. The RoboRoach is a system created by University of Michigan grads who have backgrounds in neuroscience, Greg Gage and Tim Marzullo. They came up with the cyborg [...]

Via Discovery News MindWalker — the world’s first mind-controlled exoskeleton — is making strides to help paralyzed people take their first steps in years. Funded by the European Commission and developed by a consortium of several universities and companies, the exoskeleton is comprised of three main parts: the contraption itself, a human frame that holds up a persons body weight [...]

In a jaw-dropping feat of engineering, electronics turn a person’s thoughts into commands for a robot. Using a brain-computer interface technology pioneered by University of Minnesota biomedical engineering professor Bin He, several young people have learned to use their thoughts to steer a flying robot around a gym, making it turn, rise, dip, and even sail through a ring…. Video [...]

Submitted by supersid Traveling faster than light has always been attributed to science fiction, but that all changed when Harold White and his team at NASA started to work on and tweak the Alcubierre Drive. Special relativity may hold true, but to travel faster or at the speed of light we might not need a craft that can travel at [...]

An avatar system that can help schizophrenics control the voices in their heads is being developed by British researchers. As part of the therapy, patients create an avatar by choosing a face and a voice for the person, or persons, they believe are inside their head. Therapists can then encourage the patients to oppose the avatar and force it away, [...]

Scientists believe they have finally solved the mystery of how the skeletons of more than 200 people came to be in a frozen lake in northern India. The skeletons, which were first discovered by a British forest guard in 1942, were initially thought to be the bodies of Japanese soldiers travelling through India as part of a World War II [...]

He is no stranger to the power of the ocean, having made his name by recreating the sinking of the Titanic to spectacular effect. But James Cameron has admitted to moments of dread in the lead up to his latest marine adventure – which saw him become the first lone human to reach the deepest realm of the Earth’s oceans. [...]

Inspired by a trip to the museum, a group of students built the Viper 2.0, a life-size flight simulator fashioned after the Viper spacecraft from the TV series “Battlestar Galactica.” The initial Viper, introduced at last year’s Maker Faire innovation festival, is impressive. The realistic-looking capsule was cooked up by Sam DeRose, now an engineering sophomore at Harvey Mudd College, [...]

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