Why Android Honeycomb Tablets Aren’t Hot — Yet
• wired.comNvidia’s head honcho knows that sluggish sales of Android tablets are a problem, but says it won’t be that way forever.
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Ranger Robot Sets New Distance Record, Walking 40 Miles on a Single Charge
• http://www.popsci.com/Cornell’s Ranger Robot, world record holder for the longest walk by a robot on a single charge, has smashed its own personal best by logging 40.5 miles without stopping, recharging, or even being touched.
New ZeroTouch Interface is a Touchscreen Without the Screen
• http://www.popsci.com/At the Computer Human Interaction conference in B.C. this week, a team from Texas A&M University unveiled a touch screen technology they’ve been incubating for a couple of years that isn’t really a screen at all.
Japanese Speedster Robot Levitates on a Cushion of Air
• http://www.popsci.com/Researchers in Japan are trying to get a new kind of high speed train technology off the ground, and to prove they’re serious they’ve built a ground-effect robot that floats on a cushion of air.
Tinkercad
• www.tinkercad.comHave your first 3D project ready for printing in minutes. Tinkercad is a new and faster way of creating designs for your 3D printer.
Google targets Microsoft with launch of Chromebook laptop
• www.guardian.co.ukSearch giant to use its own operating system on new laptops in audacious challenge to Microsoft's £5bn-a-quarter software
X Prize Foundation Offers $10 Million For a Tricorder to Diagnose Patients
• http://www.popsci.com/Labs-on-a-chip are useful tools for diagnosing diseases, but most can only pick out one or two sickness signatures amid an array of symptoms.
Hands On With Google’s New Chromebook
• http://www.wired.com/You won’t be seeing Google’s recently announced web-only Chromebook laptops until Samsung and Acer release versions this June.
Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
• http://www.ted.com/
What's the Awesomest 3-D Printed Bionic Titanium Implant You Can Imagine
• http://www.popsci.com/i.Materialize recently announced the (somewhat wordy) Machine Man Human Augmentation Design Challenge, to be judged by (among others) our friend Hod Lipson of Cornell's Fab@Home.
Divers Attempt to Communicate With Wild Dolphins, Using A Two-Way Translation Device
• popsci.comHelping dolphins talk back
New Yorkers soon to get emergency cell phone alerts in what Bloomberg calls 'quantum leap forwar
• www.nydailynews.comEmergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city.
Thin-film flexible 'Paperphone' created
• http://www.gizmag.com/Researchers from the Human Media Lab at Canada's Queen's University have created a fully-functioning floppy E-Ink smartphone, which they also refer to as a paper computer.
TV in a Card brings video to brochures and greetings cards
• http://www.gizmag.com/It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and a moving picture worth even more.
Japanese Mind-Controlled Cat Ears Erect and Flatten To Reflect Your Thoughts
• http://www.popsci.com/When you think of mind control, you know you dream of having furry cat ears of your own that you can control with your brainwaves. And why not? They're adorable. They're also the latest fashion in Japan.
U. of Maryland's Human-Powered Helicopter Aims to Make Aviation History Next Week
• http://www.popsci.com/Two years, 50 graduate students, countless man hours, and mankind’s insatiable need to prove he can defy gravity will all come to a head on Wednesday when a team of University of Maryland Students attempts to fly its human-powered helicopter, Gamera.
Let the Electric Vehicle Bragging Begin
• http://www.technologyreview.com/Chevy says its Volt users are getting 1,000 miles between fill-ups. Bring on the boasting: it's good for the environment.
Facebook Could Be Planning a Visual Dashboard of Your Life
• http://www.technologyreview.com/Ever wondered just how much coffee you drank last year, or which movies you saw, and when? New Web and mobile apps make it possible to track, and visualize, this personal information graphically...
Ultracapacitors to Boost the Range of Electric Cars
• http://www.technologyreview.com/New energy-storage technology could surpass today's batteries in capacity and durability.
Aviation Geeks Scramble to ID bin Laden Raid’s Mystery Copter
• http://www.wired.com/The May 2 raid on Osama bin Laden’s luxury compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, had it all: painstaking intelligence-gathering, a heroic Navy SEAL assault team, satellite and drone surveillance, and biometric forensics.
Sony Hack Probe Uncovers ‘Anonymous’ Calling Card
• http://www.wired.com/In the course of its investigation into the PlayStation Network security breach, Sony discovered a file that makes a clear reference to the “Anonymous” hacking group.
The World’s First Multi-Speed Electric Motorcycles
• http://www.popsci.com/These electric dirt bikes are equipped with six-speed gearboxes to make them faster and more powerful
Other Hand Busy? Poke Your Smartphone With This Giant Nose-Extender Stylus
• http://www.popsci.com/There are times when you can't operate your phone--when you're wearing gloves, when your hands are wet, or when you don't have hands.
E Ink Shows Off Rollable, Scrunchable, and Video Screens
• http://www.popsci.com/E Ink, the company that pioneered the electrophoretic displays used in gadgets like the Amazon Kindle, won't have a new fancy screen this year.
Failure Cascading Through the Cloud
• http://www.technologyreview.com/Two major outages illustrate how complicated it is to keep a cloud system up and running.
‘Original Maker’ Martha Stewart Talks Tablets, Magazines and Books
• http://www.wired.com/In many ways, Martha Stewart, lifestyle mogul extraordinaire, is the original maker.
Tiny Buzzing Quadcopter Is Basically Just a Flying Computer Chip
• http://www.popsci.com/This cute hand-built quadcopter might not be able to play tennis, but it's not CrazyFlie's fault — it's much to small to bounce anything around.
Cisco's Container Allows Quick Data-Center Setup
• http://www.newsfactor.com/A Containerized Data Center that can be set up practically anywhere with optimized management and energy efficiency is being offered to businesses by Cisco.
Carriers Crack Down on Wireless-Tethering App for Android
• Mike Isaac via WIRED.comThe application, “Wireless Tether for Root Users,” is still available on the Android Market. But if you have a phone that’s on the Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile networks, you won’t be able to download or install it.
CSI bin Laden: Commandos Use Thumb, Eye Scans to Track Terrorists
• Spencer Ackerman via WIRED.comSpeaking at a White House briefing, counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said he had “99 percent” certainty the commando team killed bin Laden, thanks to “facial recognition, [his] height, [and] an initial DNA analysis.”
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