The Ultrasonic Chef’s Knife uses 40,000 vibrations per second to dramatically reduce friction and improve slicing precision.

NEW YORK — The clothes dryer is a staple in the majority of American households, but the heat-it-up-and-tumble method is sorely inefficient and extremely expensive. A new ultrasonic dryer concept ...

Researchers discover that ultrasonic vibrations reduce friction on flat screens by causing the fingertip to bounce on pockets of trapped air. Haptics researchers have long known that applying ...

TOKYO, May 17, 2019 - (JCN Newswire) - - NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced that it has developed a blimp-style drone that is propelled safely through the air with ultrasonic vibrations, offering promising ...

Piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers play a critical role in modern sensing and actuation by converting electrical signals into high‐frequency mechanical vibrations and vice versa. Recent advances ...

Haptics researchers have long known that applying ultrasonic vibrations to a flat, featureless glass plate makes it feel slippery. But they have also long debated why this occurs. Northwestern ...

A research team led by Jiang Ma from Shenzhen University, China, has developed a novel technique to enhance the plasticity of metallic glasses. By leveraging a combination of controlled aging ...

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The increased use of touchscreen interfaces in automobile applications creates a visual overload of information, which has major safety implications. Haptic feedback technology is viewed as a way to ...