This nano-membrane turns your skin into a loudspeaker
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Displays can increasingly be placed anywhere, and now the same can be said of loudspeakers. We all are familiar with loudspeakers; the critical element found in almost every household in one form or the other – whether they’re in smartphones, TV’s or stashed in...
MIT researchers have taught their AI to recognise sounds
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Developing AI’s that can recognise and understand raw sound could have implications for autonomous vehicles, elderly care, entertainment, home security and much more In recent years, computers have gotten remarkably good at recognizing speech and images. Think of the dictation software on most smartphones,...
