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• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Kevin BullisIt will likely take a decade, but improvements to lithium-ion batteries could lead to much cheaper EVs.
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It will likely take a decade, but improvements to lithium-ion batteries could lead to much cheaper EVs.
Rossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?
Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome.
The patent system has been getting a lot of heat lately, especially with the high-profile fight between Apple and Samsung.
The organ-mimicking microdevice may one day reduce the need for animal testing.
Nanoparticles offer a solution to a key problem with splitting water with sunlight to generate hydrogen.
Actually it's pretty easy.
If you haven’t already accepted that motorcycles running on something other than dead dino juice are the real deal, then you probably should come around.
A mind-controlled prosthetic leg was put to the test this weekend by a man who used it to climb 103 flights of stairs to the top of Chicago's Willis Tower, one of the world's tallest skyscrapers.
History, they say, is written by the victors, but that's cold comfort to the men and women x-ed out by the editor's pen.
Fraunhofer's OLED data glasses
A startup says it's cracked a decades-old efficiency problem dogging wireless communications.
Ontario, Canada has carved out a niche for itself as a hub of green technology.
Philips is manufacturing lightbulbs called "Hue" that can be controlled with your smartphone, and starting today, you can buy them exclusively at the Apple Store.
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half.
Here at Wired we’re big fans of office weaponry. And drones. So when we learned of the Kickstarter for the iStrike Shuttle, for the iStrike Shuttle, an iOS-controlled flying machine that can drop ping-pong balls onto your target of choice, we got pre
The unlucky no longer need to rely on friends with Sharpies to decorate casts — they can tattoo their fiberglass forearms with cartoon characters, fluorescent pink tiger stripes, or most impressively, custom X-ray images.
With that much pressure, unique compounds can form and materials change their chemical and physical properties.
Snipers are already one of the more deadly anti-personnel assets the U.S. military has, but somehow, they're going to get deadlier.
In an average wind speed of 12 mph (20 km/h), the PPC is said to produce 12 kW of power
3-D printers are already being used to create machine parts and small toys, but engineers have now used the technology to build an entire vehicle: a plastic, unmanned airplane that actually flies.
From the inventor of the bicycle-riding 'bot, a new creation
Rossi--a lone Italian inventor with no real credentials and a history as a convicted scam artist--has convinced a small army of researchers that his box can harness a new type of nuclear reaction. What if they're right?
These are great days for makers. Affordable 3-D printers and CNC mills are popping up everywhere, opening up new worlds of production to wide ranges of designers.
Today's leading-edge technology is headed straight for tomorrow's junk pile, but that doesn't make it any less awesome. Everyone loves the latest and greatest.
The all electric F12 represent the 'e Sport' segment of the scalable electric vehicle technology platform resulting from the e performance research project
Sony received a patent recently for a PS3 Move controller that changes temperature between hot and cold in response to in-game actions
When people need a material that’s strong yet lightweight, they usually look to carbon fiber. In the near future, however, they may instead choose to go with composite materials made from stretched carbon nanotubes.
In 1980, the American Helicopter Association established the Sikorsky Prize, a challenge for human powered helicopters with a grant reward of $250,000.
Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air