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Future VR Haptics May Use Chemicals on the Skin to Make You Feel

Gizmodo

As a potential way to simulate a human’s ability to feel physical sensations, researchers have developed haptic VR hardware that applies chemicals to your skin to trigger… Read more. Virtual reality experiences are never going to feel like the real world until we’re able to engage all of our senses, not just vision and hearing.

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Microsoft gives developers a new method for estimating quantum computing needs

GeekWire

Microsoft has an app for that — and now developers around the world can have it, too. It’s a software tool that was originally developed for Microsoft’s internal use. And we’ve been able to redesign our hardware accordingly as well.” The app is called the Azure Quantum Resource Estimator.

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Vote for Startup CEO of the Year: These five leaders are taking their companies to new heights

GeekWire

(Photos via company websites and LinkedIn) The five finalists for Startup CEO of the Year at the GeekWire Awards are leading companies with big ambitions to improve food quality, develop better therapeutics, address mental health needs, and speed up cross-border e-commerce.

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Zeno demonstrates an innovative type of radioisotope heat source for off-grid power

GeekWire

The work at PNNL involved radioactive and non-radioactive activities, including chemical processing and fuel fabrication, materials handling and heat source characterization. The test data will support further development of heat sources.

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This ag-tech startup kept digging, and found an electrifying idea to zap weeds and soil pests

GeekWire

startup that replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. For a decade, the company has doggedly kept at its goal, finding creative solutions to hardware challenges and quickly pivoting to seize new opportunities. The chemicals also kill good bugs as well as bad.

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NASA awards millions to boost technology innovations created by small businesses

GeekWire

One grant would support the development of a lunar power distribution system. JX Crystals: Based in Issaquah, JX Crystals proposes developing and demonstrating a compact, high-efficiency power beaming system that could couple a laser source to an infrared receiver for power distribution from the edge of a moon crater to a charging station.

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Retro Chic: The IoT Means Hardware Engineers Are Cool Again

The Investing Edge

Less than 20 years later the American Society of Mechanical Engineers was organized and, with the development of a magical force called electricity, the American Institute of Electrical Engineers was founded a short time later. This, of course, is the old world of the Mechanical, Chemical and Electrical Engineer. engineering folks.