Lightest and cheapest medical exoskeleton helps those paralyzed from the waste down to walk

Suitx has a $40,000 exoskeleton. The suit returns movement to wearers’ hips and knees with small motors attached to standard orthotics. Wearers can control the movement of each leg and walk at up to 1.1 miles per hour by pushing buttons integrated into a pair of crutches. Major Suitx features: A modular exoskeleton allowing the …

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Switchable material could enable new phase change memory chips

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying a small voltage. The material then stays in its new configuration until switched back by another voltage. The discovery could pave the way for a new kind of “nonvolatile” computer memory chip …

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Switchable material could enable new phase change memory chips

Two MIT researchers have developed a thin-film material whose phase and electrical properties can be switched between metallic and semiconducting simply by applying a small voltage. The material then stays in its new configuration until switched back by another voltage. The discovery could pave the way for a new kind of “nonvolatile” computer memory chip …

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General Atomics buying Miltec which has hypersonic vehicle expertise

San Diego-based General Atomics announced Thursday it is purchasing a small Alabama company with expertise in hypersonic vehicles for $14.6 million in cash. Based in Huntsville, AL, Miltec is a leading provider of military defense and aerospace systems design, development, integration and test services. Miltec will be a part of the Electromagnetic Systems (EMS) group …

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General Atomics buying Miltec which has hypersonic vehicle expertise

San Diego-based General Atomics announced Thursday it is purchasing a small Alabama company with expertise in hypersonic vehicles for $14.6 million in cash. Based in Huntsville, AL, Miltec is a leading provider of military defense and aerospace systems design, development, integration and test services. Miltec will be a part of the Electromagnetic Systems (EMS) group …

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General Atomics buying Miltec which has hypersonic vehicle expertise

San Diego-based General Atomics announced Thursday it is purchasing a small Alabama company with expertise in hypersonic vehicles for $14.6 million in cash. Based in Huntsville, AL, Miltec is a leading provider of military defense and aerospace systems design, development, integration and test services. Miltec will be a part of the Electromagnetic Systems (EMS) group …

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Precision guided mini-grenade guns and smart rifles that turn any soldier into a sharpshooter

The precision grenade launching XM25 destroys the value of cover. Built-in targeting lasers, infrared sights and a ballistic computer calculate the exact location of the target so the weapon can fire a projectile precisely past it. The 25mm round — essentially a precision-guided mini-grenade — waits to detonate until it has passed whatever cover the …

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Precision guided mini-grenade guns and smart rifles that turn any soldier into a sharpshooter

The precision grenade launching XM25 destroys the value of cover. Built-in targeting lasers, infrared sights and a ballistic computer calculate the exact location of the target so the weapon can fire a projectile precisely past it. The 25mm round — essentially a precision-guided mini-grenade — waits to detonate until it has passed whatever cover the …

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Precision guided mini-grenade guns and smart rifles that turn any soldier into a sharpshooter

The precision grenade launching XM25 destroys the value of cover. Built-in targeting lasers, infrared sights and a ballistic computer calculate the exact location of the target so the weapon can fire a projectile precisely past it. The 25mm round — essentially a precision-guided mini-grenade — waits to detonate until it has passed whatever cover the …

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Graphene ‘moth eyes’ to power future smart technologies

New ultra-thin, patterned graphene sheets will be essential in designing future technologies such as ‘smart wallpaper’ and Internet-of-things applications New ultra-thin, patterned graphene sheets will be essential in designing future technologies such as ‘smart wallpaper’ and internet-of-things applications Advanced Technology Institute uses moth-inspired ultrathin graphene sheets to capture light for use in energy production and …

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