You’ve probably seen games – like Microsoft’s Kinect – controlled using hand gestures. A similar idea might soon allow you to type on very small personal devices.

You’ve probably seen games – like Microsoft’s Kinect – controlled using hand gestures. A similar idea might soon allow you to type on very small personal devices.

We don’t think twice about boarding a plane for a long auto-piloted flight. But when you’re under anesthesia, for no matter how long, it’s manually controlled.

We don’t think twice about boarding a plane for a long auto-piloted flight. But when you’re under anesthesia, for no matter how long, it’s manually controlled.

3-D printers are becoming more common, but usually produce simple solid objects. Now, though, engineers are printing out human ears -- that may hear better than the real thing.

Robots might be a key to our future. Not necessarily the robots themselves, but the ideas they’re helping to generate in future innovators.

Robots might be a key to our future. Not necessarily the robots themselves, but the ideas they’re helping to generate in future innovators.

The intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital is launching a new system that could be a step toward revolutionizing health care delivery.

The intensive care unit at Johns Hopkins Hospital is launching a new system that could be a step toward revolutionizing health care delivery.

Are you one of those non-believers who think it’s impossible for Santa to make all those deliveries in a single night? Well then maybe you didn’t consider that Santa might be an clever engineer.