They say life imitates art, but any scientist knows that the best designs imitate life. Researchers from the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies...
How will we recharge all the electric cars?
Image via Wikipedia IN THE ten years since hybrid electric vehicles first hit the highways and byways of America, they have come to represent 2.5%...
The appropriately named Bright IDEA hybrid delivery van
If you were a hybrid vehicle manufacturer, and you wanted to lower the world’s CO2 emissions, would you first... a) Try to replace all the...
Pressure sensitive technology set to bring 3D capability to touchscreens
Touchscreens found in most mobile devices today use capacitance or resistance technology - fine for detecting input from a finger, but not so...
Recharging Your Cellphone, Mother Nature’s Way
Image via Wikipedia A NEW solar cell that imitates Mother Nature’s way of converting sunlight to energy is making its debut in a variety...
Smart Dust? Not Quite, but We’re Getting There
Image via Wikipedia In computing, the vision always precedes the reality by a decade or more. The pattern has held true from the personal computer...
Context is King: How Videos Are Found And Consumed Online
Image via Wikipedia To try to understand—let alone guess—the future of video advertising, one needs to start by looking at the biggest trend in media...
Running barefoot is better, researchers find
Image via Wikipedia Mother Nature has outpaced science once again: the bare human foot is better for running than one cushioned by sneakers. What about those...
For the Love of Culture
Image via Wikipedia Google, copyright, and our future. In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and...
The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple’s Hands
Image by cattias.photos via Flickr Here we are, on the eve of the Tablet’s unveiling, with only hours to go before we find out just how...
Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes
Image via Wikipedia A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show. The controlled fusion of atoms...
Bacteria Transformed into Biofuel Refineries
Image via Wikipedia Synthetic biology has allowed scientists to tweak E. coli to produce fuels from sugar and, more sustainably, cellulose The bacteria responsible for most...
Is Algae Worse than Corn for Biofuels?
Image by jurvetson via Flickr A new analysis suggests so because of the need for copious fertilizer Growing algae for use in biofuels has a greater...
Rubber sheets harness body movement to power electrical devices
Engineers from Princeton University have developed power-generating rubber films that could be used to harness natural body movements such as breathing or walking...
iPad Blurs Line Between Devices
Image by marketingfacts via Flickr After months of feverish speculation, Steven P. Jobs introduced Wednesday what Apple hopes will be the coolest device on the...
Synaptics debuts Fuse next-generation mobile phone concept
Last December, the world was introduced to the Synaptics Fuse, a new concept in mobile communications. The prototype smartphone is the result of...
HoverCam: the scanner that works like a camera
The USB-powered HoverCam all-in-one scanner is designed to put the flatbed scanner to sleep – permanently. It takes a snapshot of the document...
The Public Domain Manifesto
Cover via Amazon Preamble "Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain. Toutes les...
More (Steve) Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Image via Wikipedia Good Advice . . . not just if you are American By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the...
Seed’s Goal Is To “Redefine Journalism For The Internet Age,”
Image via CrunchBase Last December, Saul Hansell left his job as a veteran reporter and blogger at the New York Times to become the programming director...
A Computer Per Student Leads to Higher Performance Than Traditional Classroom Settings
Image via Wikipedia A dozen years into the "1 to 1" computing movement's push to pair every schoolchild and teacher with a laptop, studies show the...
Today’s Threat: Computer Network Terrorism
Image via Wikipedia "Carry out all my demands or the entire country's electricity will be cut off." Is this another line from a suspense film, or...
Fleet of High-Tech Robot ‘Gliders’ to Explore Oceans
The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, recently obtained the biggest fleet of so-called gliders in Europe. These instruments can explore the...
New Computer Vision System for the Analysis of Human Behavior
Image by brewbooks via Flickr A consortium of European researchers, coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed HERMES,...
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