Quell is positioning itself as a kind of low-cost take on Peloton (less than 1/10th the price, it notes). You might too, if you were in the London-based startup’s place. With the stationary bike-maker’s value skyrocketing amid COVID-19 lockdowns, fitness startups are all the rage — heck, just look at Lululemon’s recent Mirror acquisition.A more apt comparison, however, is probably Ring Fit...

The microrobot can be seen just to the right of the “U” in United States on this U.S. penny.Scientists at Purdue University have developed tiny robots that can walk through the colon to deliver drugs precisely where needed.A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips, Purdue University engineers have demonstrated in live animal models. Why...

What goes into your morning cup of coffee, and what makes it possible?The obvious answer might be coffee beans, but when you start to account for additional costs, the scope of a massive $200+ billion coffee supply chain becomes clear.From the labor of growing, exporting, and roasting the coffee plants to the materials like packaging, cups, and even stir sticks, there are many underlying costs...

COVID-19 has prompted many people to assess whether they should return to using public transit or consider driving instead. According to BCG research, 8% of European consumers say they are more likely to buy a car because of the pandemic. That number is 16% in the US and 60% in China.Will these sentiments translate into a global wave of new vehicle purchases? That will depend, in part, on wheth...

Adobe introduced an entire bevy of Sensei AI-powered ‘Neural Filters’ that let you make the most out of one shot, including “altering” a subject’s emotions and changing a photo’s lighting angles in just a few clicks.Gone are the days when you’d require hundreds of photos from a shoot and hours of painstaking retouching work.Adobe teamed up with AI mammoth Nvidia to make these options pos...

U.S. patent application, US20200303140, discloses a keyboard that provides adjustable feedback in response to user input. The feedback is expressed as a feel or sound of the keycap based on the keycap positions, time of operation, velocity, user identity, and other factors. Thus, the feel or sound of the keyboard is adjusted electronically based on user input. A keyboard layout with assigned ac...

Users will be able to create their own avatars and purchase digital goods (including celebrity drops) to dress them up.For a while now, video games have profited from selling digital goods or “skins” to more than 2.5 billion people who spend an estimated $100 billion on virtual goods. Fortnite itself has made a billion dollars over two years of selling “skins” for players to dress up their...

Gaze tracking has the potential to help people living with motor neuron diseases and disorders exert control over their environment and communicate with others. But estimating a person’s gaze isn’t a trivial task owing to variables including head pose, head position, eye rotation, distance, illumination, background noise, and the presence of glasses, face coverings, and assistive medical equi...

Have you stepped outside today yet? Even to stretch your legs or check the mail? No? Neither have I. Just like many office workers around the world, I spend 90% of my time indoors. Even in a pre-pandemic world, I didn’t have many opportunities to soak up some vitamin D during my workday, especially during the winter months. Not everyone has a workspace next to a window or, with winter approach...