The discovery that butterfly wings have scales that act as tiny solar collectors has led scientists in China and Japan to design a more efficient solar cell that could be used for powering homes, businesses, and other applications in the future. The researchers turned to the microscopic solar scales on butterfly wings in their search… »

In this article we’re going to write about biomimicry of leaves. The development of artificial glass leaves that produce energy is done by UC Berkeley researcher Michel Maharbiz (a guy we mentioned earlier in our article about insects spies), Ruba Borno from the University of Michigan and Joseph Steinmeyer from MIT. They developed an alternative energy… »

Nikon introduced the world’s first compact camera with an in-built projector. The S1000pj projects images up to 100cm (40”) in size with a VGA resolution and a maximum distance of 2 meters. They expect that market accepts COOLPIX S1000pj as people begin to see the benefits of sharing and viewing photos and videos with the… »

In this article we’re going to write about a civilian humanoid aiding robot (unlike BigDog which is developed for army usage). Honda’s ASIMO humanoid already demonstrated its amazing walking and running capabilities. Other research labs are not so far behind developing robots just as capable. Toyota has an excellent and very advanced robot in the… »

A robotic system which acts as a baseball pitcher and batter was made by Masatoshi Ishikawa from Tokyo University (Science Information System). Robot pitcher to throw a strike, about 9 percent of the time, the robot until the batter into the strike zone the ball, that hittable. It was made in order to demonstrate the… »