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09/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Airbag for your phone? Startup creates an “active damping” case that opens when you drop your mobile phone

Every time your smartphone slips from your fingers and drops to the floor, the expensive device risks breaking the screen or another fragile part. When a German student lost his iPhone in this exact way in 2014, he spent the next four years developing the phone equivalent of an airbag: A case that deployed springy […]

10/13/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Get superhero powers on your smartphone: New AI camera lets you see around corners

The ability to see what lies around a corner sounds like a useful yet implausible ability. Yet researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have made that a reality. The team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software that could one day confer this superpower to any […]

06/07/2017 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Breakthrough new material could finally end cracked screens on mobile devices

Cracked smartphone screens can be incredibly frustrating, but a new “miracle material” being developed by scientists from all over the world promises to put that to an end. The material is a combination of semiconducting molecules C60, and layered materials including graphene, and hBN, ScienceDaily.com reported. “The winning combination works because hBN provides stability, electronic […]

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