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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 […]

08/02/2018 / By David Williams

Did YOU fall for it? Privacy watchdogs warn selfie lovers that Google’s “art doppelganger” app isn’t just for fun – they are building facial recognition database

People love taking pictures. Whether it’s of food, places, their pets, and especially themselves, most people just can’t help but press the shutter button on cameras and capture images that they’ll review once or twice later but inevitably forget about. The point is, photos, and especially selfies, are a big deal in modern culture. So […]

06/07/2018 / By David Williams

7-second charge time for phones could be possible thanks to graphene

The world’s leading scientists and inventors are always looking for ways to improve current forms of technology. In the case of standard electronics, certain physical limitations often stand in the way of progress. As such, the need for game-changing materials is always present. Graphene is one such material, and it has already been the subject of […]

05/31/2018 / By Michelle Simmons

Smartphone app developed to detect heart disease

Detecting heart disease is now easier – thanks to a team of researchers at the University of Southern California who have developed a smartphone app that can measure a key risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and arterial stiffness. When the arteries are stiff, they become less elastic and more rigid. In turn, this causes increases in blood […]

02/21/2018 / By David Williams

New flexible lithium ion battery flexes like a spine; may revolutionize wearable electronics

With the emergence of flexible — as in bendable — consumer electronic devices like smartphones and smartwatches, the demand has increased for similarly flexible high-performance batteries. This was the main motivation behind a study conducted by researchers from Columbia University, who now claim that they have successfully created a remarkably flexible, high energy density battery […]

12/26/2017 / By David Williams

Self-healing glass discovered by scientists accidentally, could lead to end of smashed screens

Ever since smartphone makers thought it was acceptable to build phones with nothing but mostly screens on them, the world has come to know one major annoyance: broken glass screens. Whenever a phone screen breaks, it’s always a toss-up between continuing to use the phone with cracks on its display, or just ponying up for a […]

10/28/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

Flexible, eco-friendly AND less expensive: Researchers are one step closer to the smart screen of the future

Tired of suffering from or replacing a smashed phone screen? Here’s some good news. Researchers at the University of Sussex in England have developed a new smartphone screen material that is less costly, more flexible, and eco-friendly, according to a report by Science Daily. The researchers combined silver nanowires with graphene, which is a two-dimensional carbon […]

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