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  • The device combines two nickel-titanium foils – a heat-responsive foil generates motion, which a second one uses to produce cooling
    Energy
    This cooler gets colder when you heat it up
    You can’t brighten a room with darkness, you can’t dry a towel by soaking it, and you surely can’t cool things with heat. Right? Well, maybe. Scientists have just built a solid-state cooling device that can use heat to generate cold.
  • The IrukaTact glove lets you feel what's hidden underwater
    Wearables
    Underwater haptic feedback glove gives users "dolphin power"
    Rescue workers searching flood sites need to know what's under the water, but invariably that water is going to be very murky. Well, that's the main scenario for which the IrukaTact was created. It's a submersible haptic feedback glove that lets users "feel" what's below the surface.