Google’s Vision of the Future?
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Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone
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Boeing Wins Bid to Build Vulture, the Solar Spyplane That Stays Aloft for Five Years
• News LinkSolarEagle Boeing's SolarEagle will fly continuously for five years under DARPA's Vulture II program. Boeing
Apple iPod Nano 16 GB
• News LinkApple's Newest Watch Is ... Wait, What? It's an iPod Nano?
Spray-on T-Shirt Tech Looks Cool, Might Actually Be Useful
• PC WorldGot a hot date? Pop out the spray can and spray on your very own personalized t-shirt. With your polymer-composite t-shirt you'll be hipper (or not) than Lady Gaga with her crazy outfits.
Graceful, Slim HRP-4 Humanoid Robot Unveiled; Destined for Menial Labor
• News LinkWork It As its brother the HRP-2 looks on in the background, Japan's new humanoid robot, HRP-4, shows off its moves. Kawada Industries via YouTube
Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers
• Priya Ganapati via WIREDThere’s an app for almost everything. Now add one that can run calculations from a supercomputer on a Nexus One phone in real time and without the need for internet connectivity.
Electric Concept Cars From GM
• arcleinThe upright, two-wheeled vehicle, called Electric Networked Vehicle, or EN-V for short, is essentially a pod-shaped electric skateboard powered by a Segway Personal Transporter. By 2030, GM said, more than 60% of the world’s 8 billion people are
1962 glass could be Corning's next bonanza seller
• APAn ultra-strong glass that has been looking for a purpose since its invention in 1962 is poised to become a multibillion-dollar bonanza for Corning. The 159-year-old glass pioneer is ramping up production of what it calls Gorilla glass, expecting it
iPhone jailbreaking (and all cell phone unlocking) made legal
• Christopher Null via Yahoo! NewsJailbreaking — the practice of unlocking a phone (and particularly an iPhone) so it can be used on another network and/or run other applications than those approved by Apple — has technically been illegal for years.
Blinding laser beam newest police tool
• KING5.comOne of the newest and most unusual less-than-lethal weapons to hit the market is the "Dazer Laser." It’s a powerful laser gun that can temporarily blind and disorient a suspect with a large modulating pool of green light.
In a World Full of Pain and Problems...
• snotr.com via Rense.com (Thanks Jeff!)...sometimes the smallest solutions give us the most hope. It IS great to be alive! Have a good week. - Ed
What a huge tool; no, not Tony Hayward, one of Google's amazing disaster maps!
• google.comA google-maps site that tracks and predicts the development of the gulf oil disaster. Check the "YouTube Videos" box and view citizen reports as icons showing the uploader's location, like video tooltips. Active operations and impacted location
New Air Conditioning Up To 90 Percent More Efficient
• LiveScienceThe comfort of air conditioning on a sweltering summer day often comes at the cost of steep energy bills. A new air conditioning process needing 50 to 90 percent less energy than today's top-notch units, however, could offer a cool new solution.
Apple now collecting, sharing precise location of iPhone users
• Raw StoryThe world's largest technology company by market capitalization may soon rival the National Security Agency in its ability to track Americans using their cell phones.
iPhone 4 unveiled with video chat — and yes, you've seen it before
• Yahoo NewsCalling it the "biggest leap since the original iPhone," Apple chief exec Steve Jobs proudly unveiled the widely expected iPhone 4, which indeed looks pretty much like the lost iPhone prototype that Gizmodo got its hands on a couple of months ago.
You Built What?! A Real Iron Man Suit
• PopSciA homebuilt superhero suit that looks as good as the silver-screen version
Apple Cult: iPhone More Important Invention than Combustion Engine, Flush Toilet
• Mondo FrazierIn a recent survey, the Apple iPhone finished ahead of space travel, the combustion engine and flushing toilets as the Most Important Invention Ever. The power of the iPhone--or the power of the Cult of Apple?
Roommate’s Tip Led Cops to iPhone Finder
• WiredPolice closed in on the man who found and sold a prototype 4G iPhone after his roommate called an Apple security official and turned him in,
$3 Microscope Plugs into Cell Phones
• Technology ReviewInexpensive, lightweight device provides basic medical diagnostics and images.
Polaroid Lives! New Camera Uses Real Instant Film
• WiredLike a phoenix rising from the flames and gently fading back into view as you pointlessly flap it in the air, Polaroid has returned. And this time, with real instant film, not that awful camera/printer - the Pogo - we saw last year.
New Blackberry Models Unveiled
• Huffington PostThe two phones will be available beginning in May. The Pearl 3G will be on the Bell, Telus, and Rogers networks in Canada, while the BlackBerry Bold 9650 is heading to Sprint May 23 for $200
A Call for Transparency in Apple’s App Store
• WiredThe iTunes App Store is nearly two years old, and Apple still has not published a clear set of guidelines about what type of content is and isn’t allowed inside apps. That’s a problem, especially for publishers eying the iPad as a potential platform
Dennis Hong: My seven species of robot
• TEDAt TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award-winnning, all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech.
Togolese Student Builds Humanoid Robot From Old TV Parts
• PopSci.comFor Sam Todo, a student in the Togolese Republic in Africa, robotics is a way to put the outdated technology found in the garbage to new, innovative uses. In this video, Todo displays a humanoid robot he created almost entirely from discarded TV part
The new touch screen - Your body
• Smart Product Ecosystem ConnectionsThe method, called Skinput, lets the skin be used as a finger input system, using non-invasive, wearable bio-acoustic sensor.
Augmented Identity App Helps You Identify Strangers on the Street
• PopSci.comMashing up face recognition technology, computer vision, cloud computing, and augmented reality with the complex digital lives many of us lead on the Internet, TAT has created an app that allows you to gather information on a person and their social
Video: MIT's Flyfire Turns Swarms of Autonomous LED Copters Into Floating 3-D Displays
• PopSci.comMeet the next generation of art installations. Together, the SENSEable City and ARES Labs at MIT have created an adaptable, remote-controlled display comprised of dozens of robotic, flying "smart pixels."
The Hexacopter: Awesome flying machine.
• Wimp.comCool
It's About Time: A Drill-Free Fix For Cavities
• PopSci.comBacteria love hanging out between your teeth—food gets caught there, and brushing can’t reach all the germs. If the bugs settle in and form a cavity, your dentist must drill through your tooth just to get at it. But now dentists can trade their drill
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