University of Stuttgart

​Smartglasses aren't unlike smartphones, in that you don't want just anyone picking up yours and using it. Conventional passwords are one way to go, but scientists have developed an alternative that doesn't involve memorizing anything – you do, however, have to let the glasses buzz your skull.​

A team of speedy Stuttgart University students has broken the existing electric car acceleration record, in a blistering 1.779 second run that shaved 0.006 seconds off the record set Swiss students late last year.

In order for microscopic "nanobots" to get to their destinations, they'll need some form of propulsion. A team of Israeli and German scientists has responded by creating what they claim is the world's smallest propeller.

Claimed to be the first building to have its core structure made entirely from interlocking timber panels formed by robots, the Landesgartenschau Exhibition Hall in Stuttgart, Germany is created as a self-supporting, lightweight structure based on biomimetic principles.

Phosphorus is a mineral that's widely used in fertilizer, which itself has an unfortunate tendency to leach out of farmers' fields and into our waterways. Now, researchers have devised a method of retrieving some of that phosphorus from the water.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart are preparing to test a solar heating system that uses a solar thermal system in conjunction with a sorption tank for storing heat from solar collectors throughout the warmer months that can then be released when the mercury drops.

A group of engineers in Germany has succeeded in demonstrating 40 Gbit/s wireless data transmission.

SmartShell is a wooden structure that uses hydraulic drives to compensate for structural loads.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart claim to have developed "the world's smallest steam engine," consisting of a single particle.