It's getting progressively cheaper to sequence your entire genome. Earlier in June, Illumina announced it would provide sequencing for close to $50k,...
Like mushrooms after a rainy day, Augmented Reality (AR) is appearing everywhere. AR technology, which allows recorded and synthetic images to be blended and...
E Pluribus Unum...robot? The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) saw a lot of amazing robots and computer programs. It also saw another...
With the amazing video recording and production systems commercially available, how hard can it be to create a realistic virtual reality environment? I mean,...
Flying cars, self-cleaning houses, moon bases, and video magazines. Popular science promised these things for 50 years, and finally one has arrived. In the...
James Cameron's long awaited project, Avatar, has finally released its trailer. While the movie may have taken more than 14 years from conception to...
When it comes to selling cool gadgets, the best technology doesn't always win. Sometimes being popular is more important than having the best specifications....
They may not have THX sound, but cell phones are bringing you closer to the movies by including miniature DLP projectors. Three different companies:...
Remember a few months back when Boston.com's The Big Picture released an absolutely beautiful set of robot pictures from across the globe? Well, now...
We're rapidly approaching a time when every conceivable human action will have an associated iPhone application. While still in the early stage of exploring...
The Cyborg revolution marches inexhaustibly forward. Last Monday, the Cyberdyne company had three of its employees strut the streets of Tokyo in their cybernetically...
Scientists are helping robots think before they step. Honda's versatile ASIMO robot was able to find its way through moving obstacles and simulated terrain...
Nations tend to fight over land, minerals, ideologies...and now organs. Public outrage spread through the UK earlier this year when it was discovered that...
