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Submission + - The air traffic control tower of the future doesn't include humans (americans.org)

Submitted by CravenRaven76 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:08PM

CravenRaven76 writes: An 80 foot tall unmanned tower at the airport houses 14 high-definition cameras to help controllers survey the site with better-than-human vision. Video from the cameras is transmitted to Sunvsal Airport, where a controller guides the planes. Potential future plans include grouping every airport controller together at distant facilities in order to save costs of running multiple air traffic control towers.

Submission + - Man receives a prosthetic hand that allows him to feel (independent.co.uk)

Submitted by CravenRaven76 on Monday September 14, 2015 @08:50AM

CravenRaven76 writes: A 28 year old man who has been paralyzed for almost a decade has recently received a prosthetic hand that allows for him to feel for the first time. While prosthetics have previously been able to be controlled directly from the brain, it is the first time that signals have been successfully sent the other way.

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