X-Droid : quick and easy functional prototyping of smartphone apps   X-Droid is a new development tool that enables developers to quickly prototype an app feature by borrowing functions from any existing apps. With X-Droid, smartphone app developers can quickly test app features, including functionalities, before fully developing them. In a mobile app developer study experiment, X-Droid boosted the productiv...

Cold sintering of ceramic materials for radioactive waste management   Prof. Ho Jin Ryu from the Department of Nuclear and Quantum Engineering (NQe) has developed an innovative cold sintering technology that can be used for the safe management of radioactive waste. Environment-friendly consolidation of the ceramic matrix containing volatile radioactive elements was achieved by applying the cold sintering tech...

HeyTeddy: programming hardware using only voice commands   HeyTeddy is a novel conversational prototyping tool for physical computing. It allows users to program and execute code in real time on an Arduino board using voice commands instead of writing actual code. Using dialogues, HeyTeddy also guides users with tutorial-like assembly instructions and provides additional information about components. Finally,...

Membranes made with conductive materials: A novel concept for overcoming mass-transfer in electrochemical CO2 conversion   A membrane made with conductive materials – a novel electrode for the electrochemical oxidation and reduction – was fabricated and applied for conversion of CO2 into value-added products. By adapting conductive membrane electrodes, the mass-transfer of CO2 onto ...

Robotic technology that enables people to walk again   Wearable robots can assist human muscular power and mobility. Wearable robot technology has great potential in various fields, from enhancing the muscular power of people without disability to assisting and rehabilitating people with disability in walking. Professor Kyoungchul Kong’s research team has developed wearable robot technology from a sens...

Manipulating brain circuits using smartphones   A wireless soft neural implant that can be controlled using a smartphone was developed. It is the first wireless neural device capable of indefinitely delivering multiple drugs and multiple color lights to chronically control brain circuits with high specificity, thereby accelerating efforts to uncover brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson&rsquo...