Clever Aussie brain-computer interface leaves your skull intact

Australian startup Synchron, backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, looks set to beat Elon Musk's Neuralink to market with a safe, reliable brain-computer interface that any hospital can quickly install – without cutting a hole in your skull.

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Review: Hover Camera X1 is the ideal drone for most people

Most folks aren't big-time aerial cinematographers, so they don't need a $1,000-plus drone – what they do need is something small, inexpensive and easy to use, that still shoots great video. As I discovered, the Hover Camera X1 fits that bill to a T.

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Ultimate Ears sets new “gold standard” with 21-driver in-ear monitors

How many speaker drivers do earphones need to deliver great stereo sound? One in each earpiece? Two? Six? The Knowles Corp has partnered with Ultimate Ears Pro for the release of the UE Premier in-ear monitors, which rock 21 drivers per earphone.

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World’s smallest wine glass toasts to nanoscale silica 3D printing

Scientists have created the world’s smallest wine glass, narrower than a human hair. Made out of actual glass, the model is a test run of a new 3D-printing process that could help make nanoscale glass components for electronic and optical devices.

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OmniStar L80 LED projector aims to outshine the competition

Following the crowdfunding success of it A6 triple-laser 4K projector last year, Casiris Tech has returned to Kickstarter with a Full HD model called the OmniStar L80 that's promised brighter than other LED models on the market.

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Big Sky camera system offers 40x resolution increase over 4K cameras

Sphere Studios has been set up to develop immersive content for a new dome-shaped entertainment venue due to open in Las Vegas later this year, and the technologies to produce it. An ultra-high-res camera called the Big Sky is its first innovation.

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Student-designed robot gives crop-eating insects’ eggs the brush-off

The spotted lanternfly is a serious invasive pest, causing considerable damage to crops such as apples, grapes and hops. That's why it's important to destroy the insect's eggs – which is exactly what the TartanPest robot is designed to do.

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Oceanbotics’ newest ROV seeks and destroys sea mines

Oceanbotics' SRV-8 underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) is certainly no slouch, nor is its more capable sibling, the SRV-8X. The latest version of the vehicle, the SRV-8 MDV, takes things even further – it blows up sea mines.

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This AI chef has learned to make you a salad, but do you want it to?

A robot cook has been trained to recreate dishes after watching videos of a human assembling meals from several ingredients, and even created one AI original. Some good news for chefs: it looks like you've got some time before AI takes your jobs too.

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Swiss drone takes the perilous plunge so divers don’t have to

Searching for human bodies or other submerged items can be dangerous for divers due to factors such as strong currents, deep waters and low visibility. That's where the Tethys One underwater drone comes in, as it's designed to do the job itself.

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