futurescope: DARPA Jetpack developed to help every soldier run 4 minute miles but currently provides 5-12% assist Nice What if? project from scientist at Arizona State, who developed a small personal wearable jetpack for DARPA to help soldiers run faster. Let’s...

prostheticknowledge: Dense Planar SLAM Experimental AR computer vision project by Renato Salas-Moreno utilizes an RGB-D sensor and Oculus Rift to detect flat areas within a space to add digital content … such as placing a Facebook wall onto your living room wall...

engineeringhistory: Tom Frisina with a TOPO model personal robot, 1983. The robot was designed by Androbot Inc. to perform every day tasks around the house. TOPO did not contain an internal microprocessor and could receive commands through an external PC such as an...