Heisler’s Skinner box-esque chess set was inspired by similarly masochistic DIY projects like an electrified keyboard, and gets its voltage from a reconfigured TENS unit. Short for Transcutaneous ...

“Years ago, handcuffs and a blindfold used to be very kinky, but nowadays that’s very vanilla,” said Lucy Sweetkill, a ...

A new glove with more than three dozen actuators across all five fingers and the palm, developed by Cornell researchers, aims to reduce swelling for people suffering from edema. The glove, known as ...

New generations of memristors could reliably store information directly within the molecular structures of graphene-like materials. In a new review published in Nanoenergy Advances, Gennady Panin of ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

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Macworld explores 15 Apple ecosystem features that enable seamless integration between iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV devices. Key capabilities include Handoff for continuing tasks ...

In a first, this week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a brain stimulation device designed to treat depression at home. The approval of the first such device for home depression ...

What they found was that the device was safe to use but provided no significant relief of symptoms in the group receiving the treatment, compared with the short-stimulation cohort. The symptoms they ...

For the first time, Americans with depression will soon be able to use a prescription brain-stimulation device at home. The approval comes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and marks a major ...

Researchers followed patients with extremely persistent depression to see whether a surgically implanted nerve-stimulation device could produce lasting change. Over time, many participants showed ...

A large multicentre clinical trial led by King’s College London with 150 children and adolescents has shown that a device cleared by the US FDA to treat ADHD is not effective in reducing symptoms. A ...