Engineers at the University of Cambridge created an algae battery that successfully powered a microprocessor computer for 6 months, on the current generated from a freshwater cyanobacteria.
SolarisKit, a Scottish B-Corp have developed a flat packed solar water heater that can be assembled in 20 mins and can heat water to 60 degrees Celsius. The kit uses a solar coil to absorb heat from the sun and heat water that passes through the coil. The kit can be daisy-chained to create a home solar water heating system, or as a standalone water heater for camping or garden pools.
Scientists at the University of California have developed a robot that can jump over 100 times its own height. The robot is intended to help explore the moon and can jump up to 32.9 metres.
Researchers from Meiji University in Japan have invented electric chopsticks that trick your mouth into tasting salt without it being present in the food you are eating! The chopsticks send the electrical waveform that activates ions in salty and umami components into the user's mouth to change their taste perception of the food. The hope is using these chopsticks can reduce national salt intake by 20%.
Engineers in Japan have achieved a data transmission speed of 319 TBps across 3000km, using a new fibre optic transmission mechanism that splits data into different wavelengths and transmit it simultaneously, amplified along the way. The new cables are the same size as existing fibre cables, making them easier to install within existing infrastructure.
UK based startup Invisibility Shield Co. has created a shield that using lenticular lensing to hide an object behind the shield, while displaying the background.
OpenAI released the next iteration of the DALL-E machine learning image generation system, which creates fantastical images from an inputted text description of the scene.
Researchers from GE, Yale, UCLA, and the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research demonstrated a new treatment for diabetes using ultrasound. Targeting an area of the liver with short ultrasonic bursts can reverse the onset of hyperglycaemia with this non-invasive treatment.
