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The latest invention brought by researchers from New Zealand is a set of bionic legs. It is worth mentioning that the concept, dubbed Rexexoskeleton, has been in the development stage for about seven years.
The device can support the full weight of its user. It can be used by paraplegics, allowing the user to move around in a bipedal-like way.
The person can control the Rexexoskeleton using a joystick and control pad. This robotic exoskeleton offers a simple way for handicapped people to self-transfer in and out.
Probably the most important thing is that this concept will hit the market in New Zealand this year. The international launch is expected to take place in 2011, reports NZHerald.
However, there is a major drawback of this invention - it is costly.

Due to a number of important breakthroughs in the field of science and technology made it possible for New Energy Technologies to come up with its latest invention - the world's first glass window that can produce electricity.
The company was able to develop a glass window able to generate power using the world's smallest working organic solar cells.
It is worth mentioning that these organic solar cells were created by Dr. Xiaomei Jiang at the University of South Florida, reports GreenDiary.
In contrast to the conventional solar systems, the solar cells developed by New Energy Technologies can produce power from both natural and artificial sources of light. These solar cells show a 10 times better performance than the solar and thin-film technologies used today.

Now users can superimpose a historic picture on a contemporary image of the same scene.
However, in order to obtain a more accurate image the photo should be taken from the same spot, using the same zoom level. Such possibility comes from new software developed for digital cameras.
The new technology was developed by Fredo Durand and Soonmin Bae at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, who teamed up with Aseem Agarwala of Adobe Systems in San Jose, California. They came up with a technique entitled visual homing.
It is worth mentioning that visual homing is a method used in robotics, where it sends a robot to a precise location.
The new software runs on a laptop that is connected to a digital camera. Their program compares the image from the camera to a preloaded historical scene and offers instructions on how to better adjust the camera's position and zoom in order to obtain the most accurate match, reports NewScientist.
Although the laptop is now used to run the software, in the near future the developers hope to make the program run right on the camera.