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Fiat introduces two new EVs: 600e and low-speed electric Topolino

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Customers can store their personal items in the smart central tunnel—which comes with a customized cover pad and flexible cupholders—seat pockets and strategic front storage spaces. The Fiat Topolino takes its name and design from the original 500, affectionately called ‘Topolino’ because of the small size.

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Honda Develops New Experimental Personal Mobility Device

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Honda has unveiled the U3-X, a compact Li-ion-powered experimental personal mobility device that fits between the rider’s legs and provides free movement in all directions just as in human walking: forward, backward, side-to-side, and diagonally. Tags: Personal Transit. Click to enlarge.

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Audi combines e-scooter with skateboard

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The Audi e-tron Scooter, combining the advantages of the electric scooter and the skateboard, is designed for sporty riders. To be transported by car, bus or train, the twelve-kilogram (26-pound) e-scooter can be folded up and stored in the back of the car, or if preferred, pulled like a trolley.

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Forget JPEG, How Would a Person Compress a Picture?

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We live in an age in which it's cheap to take photos but will eventually be costly to store them en masse, as backup services set limits and begin charging for overages. And we love to share our photos, so we end up storing them in multiple places. Such a scale is admittedly vague, but we left it vague by design.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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The best-known wearable energy-harvesting tech today is, of course, solar, which pulls down electrons from sunlight or ambient light. A light human health sensor would be no use to biologists trying to keep a tracker on a bison for the rest of its life. Solar won’t work for nocturnal animals or creatures in low-light environments.

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Students Develop Low-Cost Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired

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The portable device helps the user read in just about any location and lighting conditions. In addition, it assists the person in navigating the surroundings by describing nearby objects and their distance from the user. The team built 11 devices, which currently are stored in the NAB library. Users must sign them out.

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How Robots Can Help Us Act and Feel Younger

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One is within the home for an older person who needs help, and the other is for the rest of society—for younger people who need to be more productive to support a greater number of older people. Well, one robotic idea is to just cook meals for the person. How do we help that person have a truly better quality of life?

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