Monthly Archives: October, 2009

Should Students Be Tested for Brain-Enhancing Drugs?

If you could take a pill to make you temporarily smarter, would you? The use of brain-enhancing drugs in colleges continues to rise and...

Video of Airplane Laser Hitting Truck!

// For those of us living in fear of a deadly truck uprising, Maximum Overdrive must have scared someone, we can finally rest easy...

Mprize: Your Children Could Be Immortal

If living forever isn't enough motivation to get scientists to study longevity, maybe $3.8 million will work instead. That's the current size of the...

Guest Post: David Orban Reviews Singularity Summit 2009

This is a guest post written by entrepreneur and visionary David Orban.  He is an Advisor and the European Lead of the Singularity University. He...

iPhone Lets You Reserve, Find, and Open a Car

Like peanut butter and chocolate, Batman and Robin, or babies and puppies, some things are just more powerful when combined. So it is with...

Interview with Future Guru James Canton

Lots of people talk about the future, but few can reliably predict trends. James Canton has enough experience with the future that he helps...

Business Travel Declines With Telepresence Conference Calls

Business executives with an upcoming meeting have two choices: they can pack their things, travel to the airport, catch a flight, unpack in a...

Cool Video of ABB’s Smallest Industrial Robot

The world of industrial robots has welcomed the next master manipulator, the IRB20. From ABB (NYSE: ABB), the people who brought you the Flexpicker,...

BumpTop Brings Multi-Touch to The Computer Desktop

Do you ever wish you could just reach out and move the icons on your computer desktop around the same way you do with...

Project Indect Set To Monitor Europe Like it’s 1984

Excuse me a second while I put on my tinfoil hat and my super absorbent conspiracy pants. In a controversial move, the European Union...

Talking With A Surgeon Who Implanted Telescopes in Eyes

You may remember our earlier story on implantable miniature telescopes that helped treat blindness. Well, I had the good fortune of doing a follow-up...
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