Haptic feedback and friction reduction technologies aim to enhance user interaction with digital and virtual systems by replicating the tactile sensations experienced with physical objects. Recent ...

Parts of devices that are perfectly smooth can still experience friction because of the electrons within them, but a new method may enable researchers to turn it down or fully turn it off. Controlling ...

Sir William Bell, of the British Institute of Patentees, has published a list of inventions which the world needs, including glass that will bend, a smooth road surface that will not be slippery in ...