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- New braille-like texting app lets you text without looking
- A robot sketches portraits
- DNA nanorobot triggers targeted therapeutic responses
- New robots can continuously map their environment with low-cost camera
- Arsenic supply at highest risk of shortages
- Anthrax-killing foam proves effective in meth lab cleanup, study suggests
| New braille-like texting app lets you text without looking Posted: 17 Feb 2012 11:53 AM PST Researchers have designed a texting solution that could become a modern substitute for passing notes under the table. BrailleTouch is a prototype texting app that requires only finger gestures to key in letters on touch screen devices – no sight required.  |
| Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:55 AM PST An industrial robot as artist? A painter made of metal really can sketch faces. Its artistic genius only emerges if someone takes a seat on the model's stool positioned in front of the robot: first, its camera records an image of its model; then it whips out its pencil and traces a portrait of the individual on its easel. After around ten minutes have passed, it grabs the work and proudly presents it to its public.  |
| DNA nanorobot triggers targeted therapeutic responses Posted: 16 Feb 2012 11:42 AM PST A new robotic device made from DNA could potentially seek out specific cell targets and deliver important molecular instructions, such as telling cancer cells to self-destruct. Inspired by the mechanics of the body's own immune system, the technology represents a major breakthrough in the field of nanobiotechnology and might one day be used to program immune responses to treat various diseases.  |
| New robots can continuously map their environment with low-cost camera Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:41 AM PST Robots could one day navigate through constantly changing surroundings with virtually no input from humans, thanks to a system that allows them to build and continuously update a three-dimensional map of their environment using a low-cost camera such as Microsoft's Kinect.  |
| Arsenic supply at highest risk of shortages Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:39 AM PST Modern technology depends on reliable supplies of a wide variety of materials, but there is increasing concern about the dependability of those supplies.  |
| Anthrax-killing foam proves effective in meth lab cleanup, study suggests Posted: 16 Feb 2012 10:32 AM PST A decontamination foam, developed more than a decade ago and used to decontaminate federal office buildings and mailrooms during the 2001 anthrax attacks, is now being used to decontaminate illegal methamphetamine labs.  |
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