A newly developed robotic arm can be controlled by signals from the brain transmitted to the arm by a micro-electrode implant. While early applications involve paralysed patients, including soldiers injured on the battlefield, it does not take much imagination to see a fully scaled-up version controlled from a distance. Although researchers are currently just […]

I’d never heard of T-Rays until recently. Many of us are coming to accept Wi-Fi as the standard way of connecting multiple devices in our homes and are quite happy with the 11Mbit/s speed even for sending movies around the house, for example. We may not know what that speed means but it’s fast […]