Engineers from Audi have designed a type of car laminate that can absorb solar energy, and offers the flexibility conventional glass solar panels cannot.
Bosch is patenting a system that enables autonomous vehicles (AVs), including those without passengers and hauling cargo, to chart their course according to local astronomical…
Inventors from LG Electronics have designed a smart platform that helps small farmers optimize their production, and enables consumers to directly purchase produce. The Seoul-based…
A U.S. patent application suggests a radical new seating arrangement for business class flights, maximizing passenger density and comfort at the same time. The designs…
A U.S. patent application from South Korea’s Carlson Company Ltd. includes designs for a smart mask that regulates its internal pressure to increase user’s comfort.
South Korea’s LG Electronics has filed a patent application for an oven with artificial intelligence that ensures the proper cooking of food according to recipes…
Inventors from Microsoft have developed a system that enables chatbots to help each other in fulfilling user requests. It grants them access to a skills…
Four years after Boeing shared its vision of pilotless planes, the aerospace giant takes a half-step toward self-flying aircraft with a patent application for a…
Inventors from X Development, a moonshot incubator set up by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are pushing forward technology that can assess people’s…
Researchers from Northeastern University have developed a computational model that claims to simulate, with high precision, outcomes for spinal cord treatments.
The patent application published June 10, “Dynamic Shared Experience Recommendations,” contains a proposed method of incorporating in-call activities into Facebook’s service. Specifically, it involves making…
The Cupertino-based tech giant’s USPTO application cites a major challenge to smart fashion: electrical components and fabric do not mix. The latter is flexible, making…
In the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Adidas debuted the Telstar: the most iconic soccer ball design ever. The Telstar, with its black-and-white panels, not only…
For decades, the existence of UFOs has widely been met with healthy skepticism. With the ubiquity of smartphone cameras today, sightings of alien spacecraft appear…
A recently filed patent application from Apple describes the use of electromagnetic waves for health monitoring applications, which may include testing glucose levels, or even…
