Smart expiry label

A London-based student developed a bio-reactive expiry label that decays at the same rate as food, potentially making a massive dent on the millions of tonnes of food wasted around the world each year. Bump Mark, a bio-reactive food expiry label, won the UK round...

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Bionic plant

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed the world's first bionic plant in March, capable of replicating and even improving upon a plant's natural ability to photosynthesise. Carbon nanotubes (orange) embedded in the chloroplast of...

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Shape-changing robot

A major advancement was made in soft robotics, an emerging field that ditches rigid parts used in traditional robots in order to deal with uncertain and changing tasks and environments. The ultra-resilient robot "marks the emergence of soft robot technology from the research...

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Smartglasses for the blind

Smartglasses designed to assist blind and partially sighted people by using a specially adapted 3D camera were developed by researchers at the university of Oxford. Smartglasses to improve the lives of blind people were developed by UK researchersRNIB The camera separates...

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Solar-panel windows

A breakthrough in quantum dot research by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory paved the way for windows that double as solar panels. Researchers embedded quantum dots into glass to create transparent solar cellsLos Alamos National Laboratory Quantum dots - nanocrystals...

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Printable, bendable batteries

A flexible, long-lasting rechargeable battery that holds the potential to transform wearable devices was developed by a California-based startup. Long-lasting, flexible and rechargeable batteries developed by Imprint Energy could be used in "weird parts of your body...

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Invisibility cloaks created with laser-stitching

Scientists at the University of Cambridge developed a new method to manufacture invisible "metamaterials" using lasers, leading to the possibility of invisibility cloaks. A new method of creating "metamaterials" on a large scale could pave the way for cloaking devicesCC Using...

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