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The Studs On This Punk Bracelet Are Actually Microphone-Jamming Ultrasonic Speakers
You can prevent facial recognition cameras from identifying you by wearing face paint, masks, or sometimes just a pair of oversized sunglasses. Keeping conversations private from an ever-growing number of microphone-equipped devices isn’t quite as easy, but researchers have created what could be the first wearable that actually helps increase your privacy.
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This Rooftop Microphone Alerts Drivers To Emergency Sirens Long Before They Can Hear Them
In many parts of the country pulling over and making room for an approaching emergency vehicle with its lights and sirens on is the law, but that’s assuming you can hear or see it coming, which isn’t always easy when you’re behind the wheel. A new device promises to not only listen for emergency vehicles,…
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MIT Engineers Create Laser Ultrasounds That Can Look Inside Your Body Without You Even Feeling It
Engineers at MIT have come up with a new approach to medical imaging that is both non-invasive and hands-off the patient. Using lasers, they can peer beneath the surface of the skin without any physical contact required, improving upon the limitations of equipment like ultrasound machines.
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Nvidia Taught An AI To Instantly Generate Fully-Textured 3D Models From Flat 2D Images
Turning a sketch or photo of an object into a fully realised 3D model so that it can be duplicated using a 3D printer, played in a video game, or brought to life in a movie through visual effects, requires the skills of a digital modeler working from a stack of images. But Nvidia has…