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Control an Army of Fireflies with Your Fingertips
Lasers, sensors, and black lights imitate nature in Maotik's latest interactive installation.
A Small Team of Scientists Won $1.5 Million for Making the World's Top pH Sensor
The small team took home more than $1 million in prize money at a competition promoting ocean health.
In Japan, the Trees Are Alive with Lights and Music
teamLab gives Nature a voice in the public installation, 'Resonating Trees.'
Even West Coast Canada's Declining Salmon Population Has Its Own App
Community Fishers was designed to help researchers fill gaps in ocean science data collection, beginning with the declining salmon population in the Salish Sea.
Motion-Controlled Graffiti Robot Keeps Your Hands Clean
You won't get caught red-handed with Joao Whitaker's hands-off tagging experience, 'Tinta Solta.'
Virtual Reality Without Awkward Body Sensors
You don't need a controller when the room is your sensor.
Rewiring the Brain to Create New Senses
How the brain's neuroplasticity lets us substitute one sense for another—and invent new ones.
This New Bionic Leg Makes Stairs and Slopes No Obstacle
"You don't have to think about walking with this leg."
Where's the Wearable Tech That's Fashionable Enough to Wear?
Most wearable tech just looks like flashing Christmas lights attached to bodysuits.
Slumber Party at a Gallery on Laser-Guided Robotic Beds
It's hard to tell the difference between dreams and reality at the Hayward Gallery's Carsten Höller retrospective.
Welcome to the Internet of Skin
Engineers devise a way of printing kilometers-long sheets of "smart skin."