Each day iPhone case manufacturers roll out some brilliant new cases. First we heard about the $10,000 worth iPhone case, and thought that it was the limit, but now Nissan has reached even further. Not in terms of price, but in terms of productivity and functionality. Nissan has managed to make the “World’s first self-healing iPhone case”. This iPhone case heals the scratches on... 

Like making your own electronic devices, or a robot? Then, you might be pleased to meet Mimbo over here, the robot which mimics your emotions.  This “serious” looking robot over here, is only looking serious cause the person standing in front of it is pretending to be serious. Like robots and can’t afford those high-cost robots? Then this one is surely for you. His face is composed... 

With automation being the hottest of the fields undergoing rapid advancements, the need for human labor is declining day by day. Automation has hit every industry and architecture is not an exception. This interesting news article is not about cranes getting more advanced but something much more than that. FRAC center in Orleans, France has witnessed two flying machine building up an architecture... 

The 38th edition of the Top 500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers has just been released. There are no changes in Top 10 rankings compared to the previous list, however the performance of some machines have increased. Japanese build K computer is now almost 4 times faster than its nearest competitor with a performance of 10.51 Petaflop/s. It is also the first ever machine to cross... 

If asked about one irritating thing on cyber world, spamming would if not on the top, then at least in top three. Coders are always after finding ways to outwit spammers. Captchas is one of the fruits such efforts have produced. They are referred to those illegible code words which are designed to dodge spammers, often asked to input before proceeding to the required page. But the bad news is that... 

Boasting the tagline of “If you can dream it, we can build it”, Parker Brother Choppers have to their credit so far; the replica of Torn Light Cycle as well as an advanced version of Green Machine. The year for them is been good so far with a reality TV show being premiered on SyFy network and both their babies making their way into the very famous Hammacher Schlemmer catalogue ; the Green Machine... 

A glass is transparent but our sense of sight tells us every time we come across one. It is because of some of the light passing through it being reflected back to into our eyes. But what if it doesn’t? A normal glass substrate (left) and the new substrate (right). Because light is hardly reflected on the new substrate, it can hardly be seen. A Japanese firm; Nippon Glass Co. limited has been successful... 

Supercomputers are at the front line of current processing capacity among all the families of computers. They are used for highly intensive tasks such as quantum physics, weather forecasting, climate research and molecular modeling etc. In November ’09 and October ’10 Jaguar topped the Top500 lists of world’s fastest supercomputers. But it was not until late October 2010 that Jaguar... 

Here is the construction process of construction of composite fuselage for the aviation industry’s hottest product now in the market – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Composite materials, unlike the metals, are combination of two or more materials (mainly fibres: provide great strength and matrix: the substance that holds these fibres ). Composite materials are characterized by the strength... 

I once read somewhere, Remember, no matter how bad you are you are not totally useless. You can still be used as a bad example. Well as we advance towards shrinking things to the size of nanometers, even the useless are turning into assets. Thus here, Materials Science and Engineering Professor Xudong Wang, postdoctoral Researcher Chengliang Sun and graduate student Jian Shi are busy finding ways to...