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The industry’s first AI multimedia console designed to respond to the emotions of its user has been developed by EmoSHAPE. Powered by Android, the EmoSPARK Cube is based on eight primary human emotions: joy, sadness, trust, disgust, fear, anger, surprise and anticipation. The device features what the company describes as the ‘Emotion Processing Unit’ (EPU), an MCU that manages and processes all of the emotions of the AI.

The ongoing pressure on engineering companies to reduce costs, increase efficiency and yield a higher ROI is pushing many business leaders to consider alternatives to direct-drive motor systems in the form of various mechanical transmission solutions. Although gearing systems can offer simplicity, cost effectiveness and flexibility, it's not always clear which type of setup is best to use.

Thanks to NASA’sAsteroid Data Huntercontest, the public can play with a software application that has the potential to increase the number of new asteroids discovered. The application is based on an algorithm which proved a 15% increase in positively identifying asteroids between Mars and Jupiter during testing.You don’t have to be a NASA scientist to work the application - it can be used by amateur astronomers and citizen scientists.

Using programmes developed by NASA, Pennsylvania startup Narbis has introduced a revolutionary pair of glasses, which uses sensors to track the wearer's brain activity.These signals are sent to the lenses of the glasses, which darken when brain performance slips and clear when the brain is focused and concentrating.

The arrival of a unique experimental demonstrator at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center may herald a future in which aircrafts are powered by electric motors. The Leading Edge Asynchronous Propeller Technology (LEAPTech) project will test the premise that tighter propulsion-airframe integration, made possible with electric power, will deliver improved efficiency and safety, as well as environmental and economic benefits.

Dropping a robot onto a comet was arguably one of the most audacious space achievements of recent times, but one concept mission being studied by NASA could top even that. Scientists are proposing to send a robot submarine to the oily seas of Saturn's moon Titan. The seasare filled with hydrocarbons like methane and ethane, kept in their liquid states by an averagetemperature of -180°C.

Piezo actuators convert electrical energy directly into mechanical energy and allow for motions with a resolution in the sub-nanometer range. They achieve travel up to approximately one millimeter and high dynamics with frequencies up to several thousand Hertz. There are no frictional parts to limit resolution, also no mechanical wear, as motion is based on crystalline solid state effects. Therefore, piezo actuators are the ideal drive solution f...

An energy storage technology capable of providing surges of power on satellites and other spacecraft has been chosen by the European Space Agency (ESA) for possible orbit in 2018. Developed by Skeleton Technologies, this ultracapacitor technology is 60 times lighter and 30 times more efficient than the batteries it will replace.

Microsemi has announced the RTG4 high-speed signal processing radiation-tolerant FPGA family. The RTG4’s reprogrammable flash technology offers complete immunity to radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation environments, requiring no configuration scrubbing, unlike SRAM FPGA technology. RTG4 supports space applications requiring up to 150,000 logic elements and up to 300MHz of system performance.

Passing ASTM E595 testing for NASA low outgassing, MasterSil 920-LO is a high performance, room temperature vulcanising silicone for sealing, coating and small encapsulations. Introduced by Master Bond, this single component system has a moderate, flowable viscosity and a solid electrical profile, which makes it suited for conformal coating applications in the electronic and optical industries.