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A Simpler Means for Visible Light Communication

28 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.Visible light communication systems are great at transmitting torrents of data, but to be widely adopted they must be made as simple as possible. To that end, researchers in China have developed a circuit device,…

Varjo’s New AR Headset Is Built for Secret Labs

27 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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The Meta Quest 3 is a capable, accessible mixed reality device. But if you’re a mad scientist working on a secret project in an underground lab, it’s not going to cut it.Finnish headset manufacturer Varjo has a solution: the XR-4, a new generation of flagship mixed-reality headsets built for unusually…

Generating Power on Earth From the Coldness of Deep Space

25 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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It’s a summer night. On the rooftop of a quiet building, a set of panels cools the rooms within and keeps the lights on, removing heat and generating electricity using the coldness of the sky. That cold isn’t in the air around the building—the night is warm. Rather, the panels…

Satellite-Sharing Enables Low-Cost Earth Observation

25 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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In August, Oleksii Kryvobok walked through a green and yellow field of sunflowers south of Kyiv, Ukraine, and measured the harvest’s photosynthetic activity with a device on a tripod. Hundreds of kilometers overhead, the EOS SAT-1 satellite, launched by Kryvobok’s employer, EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA), in Mountain View, California, was…

Video Friday: Punch-Out

24 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.Humanoids 2023: 12–14 December 2023, AUSTIN, TEX.Cybathlon Challenges: 02 February 2024,…

Butterfly-Eyed Sensors Capture UV Images

24 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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The compound eyes of an insect are structurally very different from that of a human—almost a separate category of organ altogether from the more familiar ocular arrangement of lens, cornea, iris, and retina. For instance, Papillio xuthus, the Asian Swallowtail Butterfly, can see wavelengths of light in the ultraviolet spectrum,…

What to Do When the Ghost in the Machine Is You

22 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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Limor Fried is the founder of Adafruit, a leading electronics manufacturer for makers. The open-source microcontroller driver libraries she writes to interface with devices such as sensors and displays often become de facto standards and are found in many code repositories. Recently, Fried began experimenting with ChatGPT to generate drivers…

Dark Matter Data Saved Via Parachute

22 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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A NASA high-altitude balloon flight earlier this year served as reminder of an ever-important lesson: Always back up your data. In April in Wānaka, New Zealand, researchers launched the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope, or SuperBIT, a balloon-based telescope, which aimed to gather data on dark matter distribution by imaging…

Zoom Fatigue is Real, According to Brain Scans

21 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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Since the pandemic began in 2020, Zoom video teleconferences have become a new normal for many people’s working life. Now a new study finds these virtual meetings exhaust the brain more than face-to-face communication.Lockdowns due to COVID-19 led to skyrocketing adoption of Zoom, Skype and other videoconferencing tools as substitutes…

Imagineer Morgan Pope Uses Electromagnetism to Spark Emotions

21 Νοεμβρίου 2023 by paulkokos

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Most people probably think of robots as cold and calculating, but for Morgan Pope they can be a tool for generating emotions.As a research scientist at Disney Research in Glendale, Calif., Pope designs robots for the entertainment giant’s theme parks. But working as an Imagineer, as Disney’s researchers are known,…

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