A new bracelet called Joule contains FDA-approved patches that deliver caffeine through the skin, taking away the discomfort after the caffeine rush, while also placing the patch in an area without much fat resistance, allowing the substance to flow faster into the body. The body absorbs each patch (the equivalent of a cup of coffee) over the course of four hours — giving wearers long-lasting alertness without the jitteriness.

This Sunday’s Super Bowl, taking place in Santa Clara, California, between the Carolina Panthers and the Denver Broncos, has been declared a ‘no-drone zone’ by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who have placed a 32 mile no-fly zone around the Levi’s Stadium.

Paralysed from the waist down after a BMX accident, Steven Sanchez rolled into SuitX’s Berkeley, California, office in a wheelchair. A half-hour later he was standing and walking thanks to the Phoenix, a robotic exoskeleton now available for around $40,000. The suit returns movement to wearers’ hips and knees with small motors attached to standard orthotics.

The United Nations' top nuclear watchdog group proposed the use of nuclear radiation treatment as a strategy to eliminate or reduce the mosquito population carrying the Zika virus. Yukiya Amano, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, announced this plan on last Sunday, before leaving for an official visit to Central America where the virus has been rapidly spreading.

This week has seen a new electric driverless shuttle bus enter into a trial in the Dutch town of Wageningen. The new WePod, which was developed at Delft Technical University and is cable of carrying six passengers, embarked on a short 200m journey along a stretch of road by the side of the town’s lake.  

The newly-formed Drone Racing League (DRL) has just announced its inaugural season, with the first full race for the fledgling sport set to take place in late February. Other drone leagues and race organisers are out there, but the DRL is on a much bigger scale than the competition - the company has raised millions in investment from prominent sources like media corporation Hearst, CAA Ventures, and even Matt Bellamy, the lead singer of Muse.

Three year old Lucy Boucher from Northern Ireland has become the first child to receive a kidney transplant using the help of a 3D printer. The transplant was performed by surgeons at London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Facebook has announced that it will build a data centre in Ireland, which it will power with 100% renewable energy. Commenting on the announcement, Greenpeace's Senior IT Analyst Gary Cook said:

The ORSTO CONTEMPORARY 100 range is the first of four collections of smartwatch developed by ORSTO, with the following three scheduled for release in the coming months. Thousands of hours of R&D, design testing, real world user testing and production quality control has been channelled into every piece.

Commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites are about to witness tremendous economic growth. Last year, hardly a month passed without the announcement of another satellite constellation designed to support Earth observation or broadband communication. Compared to those in more distant orbits, LEO satellites offer shorter orbiting periods and multiple daily flyovers thanks to their close proximity to Earth. This opens the door to an intriguing mar...

Chess is a trusted old favourite that hasn’t changed since the 6th century. Except, that’s not true anymore. Developers Team Dengkisen (Twam電撃戦, literally “Team Blitzkrieg”) in Japan have added modern technology to the ancient game, transforming it into a speedy, futuristic experience.

Producing a blockbuster video game - so-called "AAA" titles such as Call of Duty or Uncharted - is an expensive and labour-intensive process. (Bungie's Destiny, released in 2014, cost an estimated $500 million [£323m] to develop.) In 2016, however, a new type of video game will take centre stage: one whose worlds are created not by developers, but by algorithms. 

A smartphone case which is capable of charging your phone using a built-in hand crank has gone on sale. Five minutes of cranking can provide about 20 minutes of talk time or an hour's worth of smartphone usage.

From self-regulating refrigerators to smarter public transport, the IoT encompasses a wide range of possibilities. It has swiftly become one of the hottest topics on the tech table, but along with the chatter comes a few inconsistencies. It’s helpful to separate the fact from the fiction as you take a closer look at how the IoT will work and what its true capabilities are. By Barry Gold, Cloud computing consultant and prolific tech writer.

A way of saving lives in plane crashes has been conceived, after an inventor released designs for a detachable cabin. The technology was invented by Tatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich, who has been working on the project for the past three years. The video below demonstrates exactly how it would work during in-flight emergency situations.

Many futurists and economists predict automation, robots, and artificial intelligence will take human jobs. It might not happen, of course, but if it does women will lose more jobs than men, a report has claimed. The World Economic Forum (WEF), which has its annual meeting in Davos this week, warned of a "widening of the employment gender gap" as the job market evolves.

The traditional British approach to Christmas is well known, but now January has come and the festive treats have run out. And for many of us trying to get back to healthy habits, food-tracking apps are playing a role. Apps like MyFitnessPal, Noom Coach and MyNetDiary aren’t designed just for losing weight, even if that’s how a lot of people use them.

The biggest successes of the last few years have all been about software. “There’s an app for that” has gone from being an Apple slogan to a simple truism. There are revolutions ahead: virtual reality, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and wearable technology are all in their early days. However, none are yet polished enough to really seize the imagination of users – or even to have been released.

Hackers, rogue states, terrorism and nuclear decommissioning - all factors that will spring to mind when talking about the prime causes of power blackouts and the main threats to power grid security in the future – when distribution system reliability will be at the top of the agenda for many utilities and their customers.

THIS IS HORRIFYING: 60% of women working in Silicon Valley experience harassment. Survey co-authored by Trae Vassallo found that for women in tech and venture capital gender discrimination is common. Sixty percent of the women working in Silicon Valley experience unwanted sexual advances, according to a new survey released this week. About two-thirds of them say that these advances were from their superior.