Overcoming the color blindness, speed-noise trade-offs, and bandwidth bottlenecks of traditional dynamic vision sensors, Zhai et al. report a frog-inspired device combining multispectral perception, spatial preprocessing, and event-driven encoding for low noi…

I had the podcast on in the background while I was doing something else entirely. I wasn’t really listening — it was noise, company, the usual ambient accompaniment to work that doesn’t require full concentration. And then one sentence landed differently and …

Imagine a giant wooden helmet from 1925, designed to block out noise and visual distractions for ultimate focus. Inventor Hugo Gernsback's "The Isolator" even pumped in oxygen to combat sleepiness. While it looked like science fiction and was impractical, thi…