This is real. Hero Tech has built a retractable light saber that is using no visual effects. You cannot fight with it but it looks like the movie light saber. The two led light strips are attached to ...

Neuroscientists and materials scientists have created contact lenses that enable infrared vision in both humans and mice by converting infrared light into visible light. Unlike infrared night ...

The IR sensor array, which on the palm-sized vehicle consisted of just a handful of components, evolved into a PCB-backed bar nearly 0.5 meters wide. Potentiometer tuning was a fiddly affair, but ...

Japanese police have found a surprising new way to curb the country’s rampant prostitution – by painting a street yellow. The unusual tactic in Osaka has led to a dramatic 90 per cent decrease ...

Work has begun to replace 16,500 street lights in the city, with 7,000 already having been replaced. The remaining work is expected to be completed in four months.

An automatic street light control device conceived by rural innovator Shashidhar with support from Telangana Innovation Cell (TGIC) has received approval for a pilot project.

A recent fatal crash where a 91-year-old man was hit and killed by a vehicle in a poorly lit area of Alief have many asking how can one prevent such things from happening.

Learn to create a simple light-following robot using Arduino, LDR sensors, and an MX1508 motor driver. This beginner-friendly project includes detailed instructions, components list, and coding ...

After some searching, I ended up using a microcontroller and a piece of code borrowed from the web that I tweaked and adapted. The microcontroller-based concept was chosen because I wanted to scale ...

Minneapolis city leaders are expected to give an update on Thursday for their plan to deal with street light outages. Copper wire theft has been an ongoing problem in cities across the state, and ...

Self-powered sensor Using this design framework, they built an energy management circuit for an off-the-shelf temperature sensor.