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Myhrvold demonstrated a “Death Star” laser gun designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight. The device was crafted from parts purchased on eBay by scientists at Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Laboratory.
An inventive duo's giant homemade air cannon can project a pumpkin--or anything else--at 600 miles an hour
According to Ray Kurzweil, the Singularity is a point at which man will become one with machine and then live eternally—which makes Singularity University, a nine-week academic retreat named for the concept, sound a little cultish. Our writer travele
Mary Lou Jepsen has created massive holograms and cheap laptops for the developing world. Now she’s rethinking the LCD screen, leading the way to the next great gadget: an e-reader to replace your laptop
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3D printing to order is a regular subject on TreeHugger; we love the idea of making things when you need them, where you need them. And soon you will be able to order up body parts, at a sort of Ponoko for pancreas. Now people sit on waiting lists, h
Star Wars was pretty obviously a rip off of Samurai movies, right down to the lightsabers and Darth Vader’s outfit. So what better to celebrate George Lucas’ “homage” to Japan than a pair of “Lightsaber Chopsticks”? For just ¥2,900 ($33) you can p
Extreme gaming - strap an Epson HD ready projector to your front, a PS3 to your back and take gaming to a whole new level. This is Need for Speed taken to new heights... You can find out more from Epson Europe at www.epson-europe.com/extremegamer
This Day In Tech Events That Shaped the Wired World - Dec. 8, 1931: Coaxial Cable Patented
By augmenting a low-cost phone with GPS and a battery of applications, the goal is to help immigrants complete safe border crossings without being sent back by the Border Patrol or getting shot in the face by American “patriots.”
The world is going to change very quickly...
[German SSDeV member Ray] pulled another stunt: He used a 3D printer to print handcuff keys. And not just any ordinary handcuff key … no, it’s the official handcuff key from the Dutch police!
The most efficient possible display technology would be something that bypasses the eyes altogether and sends information straight to the brain. Sadly, cranial USB ports are still pretty hard to install. The second most efficient possible display technology anyone's devised projects images directly into the eye. The dream of a wearable virtual retinal display, or VRD, has been around for nearly two decades; it's on the horizon, but it's still going to be a while until it gets here.
The idea of VRD was first tossed around at the University of Washington's Human Interface Technology Lab back around 1991. Thomas Furness, who'd been working on helmet-based displays for the Air Force in the '80s, and research engineer Joel Kollin were part of the team that put together the initial (and enormous) prototype. The concept was that tiny, ultra-low-power lasers could paint an image onto the human retina by scanning across it at high speed,
A new generation of contact lenses built with very small circuits and LEDs promises bionic eyesight.
"The Terminator" showed us a future where battalions of sentient, humanoid robots wage war on mankind. While that vision is still well within the realm of science fiction, many countries are looking into creating robot soldiers, including the United States. In fact, in 2001, the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act set a goal for the U.S. Armed Forces -- create an unmanned combat vehicle force that would account for one third of all vehicles in operation. So far, the robot designs don't resemble the Terminator, but they can be just as lethal. The U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) plan is a comprehensive strategy to upgrade the nation's military systems across all branches of the Armed Forces. The plan calls for an integrated battle system -- a fleet of different vehicles that will use up to 80 percent of the same parts, new unattended sensors designed to collect intelligence in the field, and unmanned launch systems that can fire missiles at e
Broadcast network CBS will be advertising its fall TV season with a video-chip ad embedded in an issue of Entertainment Weekly. The technology for the battery-powered ads can handle about 40 minutes of video.
A pub in Melbourne came up with what potentially could be the best and
wrongest multimedia device ever invented: A urinal with a rear
projector, so you don't miss a single second of a game when you have to
pee.
all right this next story may sound like something out of a Hollywood thriller. Saudi GPS device also has a lethal dose of cyanide which can be activated. And anytime you get my point. The inventors bid for a patent has been rejected in Germany joining us now the smoking did talk about his -- deputy editor of popular science okay that this is pretty much Cobb. Pretty sinister and nefarious. How exactly would this work."
" Well there's a category of technology that involves GPS tracking systems being shrunk down to the -- for you could actually implanted surgically and we've seen a number of applications for this. This is without question the most sinister version of it that I've certainly heard of you know and and the notion of tracking criminals is not -- but the notion of killing them remote
Apple attempted to silence a father and daughter with a gagging order after the child’s iPod music player exploded and the family sought a refund from the company.
Right about now, Apple probably wishes it had never rejected Google Voice and related apps from the iPhone. Or maybe it was AT&T who rejected the apps. Nobody really knows. But the FCC launched an investigation
last night to find out, sending letters to all three companies (Apple,
AT&T, and Google) asking them to explain exactly what happened.
3D Holographics and Organic LEDs - YouTubes of the new Video Display Technologies
A saser produces an intense beam
of uniform sound waves on a nano scale.
Terahertz radiation is also used to reveal what's under your clothes in airport scans.
In the future, a saser might spot defects in nanometer-scale objects like micro-electric circuits. Or sasers might be used for medical imaging and security screening in novel ways.
Microsoft unveiled its newest control scheme today: full-body motion control that doesn't require a controller of any kind called Project Natal. Forgive my excitement, but on first glance this thing looks amazing. Nintendo should watch out.
’80’s were a magical decade for gadgets for kids. Computing power and display technology were evolving and cost effective enough to penetrate the toy market in a big way. Purely mechanical toys evolved into electromechanical toys and gave birth to th
General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.
I saw this on Rense.com and tracked it all the way back to a forum post with some impressive pictures! I couldn't find anything from VW about it though... Please post what you find in the comment section. Ed.
A remarkable new invention from Tel Aviv University — a network of tiny sensors as small as dewdrops called "Smart Dew" — will foil even the most determined intruder.
Witnesses suddenly heard "Pop-pop-pop-pop-pop!" Those gunshots were real. A flashing red "multiple shots" banner and an address appeared on a nearby laptop, and officers quickly located a 28-year-old man who had been shot b
The mosquito laser, built from parts bought on eBay. On the shelf were 5 Maglite flashlights, a zoom lens from a 35mm camera, and the laser itself -- a little black box with an assortment of small lenses and mirrors. A personal computer is the laser*
