With great power comes great responsibility. With great amounts of free time comes great hilarity. YouTube user Paxshikai has filmed 100 videos featuring TOMY's...
The cool developments out of IREX 2009 keep coming. At the recent conference, Kobayashi Lab at Tokyo University of Science displayed its Muscle Suit,...
Modern teleconferencing is taking its cues from beyond the grave! Pepper's Ghost is an old stage illusion that was originally developed in the Victorian...
Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) will be held in Silicon Valley. Â The event boasts an impressive lineup of speakers, including Complete Genomics CEO Cliff...
Wow! Â I just stumbled upon a blog called Conceptrobots that has a fantastic collection of seriously awesome robot concept images to drool over. Â I'm...
The job of a scientist has its fun parts, and its not-so-fun parts. Making new discoveries, understanding the way things work, and experimenting with...
The Avatar Movie from renowned director James Cameron is set to open in theaters worldwide this week. Â Cameron, creator of movie greats including Terminator,...
Can't afford a stenographer? Well now iPhone has an App for that. Nuance, the creators of the successful Dragon Naturally Speaking dictation software have...
There have been many proposed means of killing cancer cells: selective pathogens, irradiation, chemical corrosion of membranes...but my favorite has always been "burn the...
When people really want to enter a country, they'll try anything. Chinese national Lin Rong, 27, reportedly paid surgeons 100,000 Yuan (~15,000 USD) to...
Scientists are becoming increasingly adept at creating machines that can successfully attach to your neurons. In the realm of prosthetics, the ultimate artificial hand...
From an economic and environmental perspective, meat has some problems. Animals consume a great deal of resources in their growth and they release a...
Everyone has a different way of enjoying the winter holidays. Some light candles, some sing songs, and others construct microscopic snowmen. David Cox from...
Get muscles now, ask me how. As published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, researchers at the National Children's Hospital (NCH) and Ohio State...
Augmented Reality may be the artistic medium of the future. We've already seen AR in large corporate displays, video games, smart phone applications, and...
Japan gets all the cool stuff. Last week the International Robot Exhibition (iREX) finished in Tokyo with hundreds of exhibitors and more than 100,000...
iGEM harnesses two of the most potentially powerful resources on our planet: synthetic biology and youth. The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition took place...
Synthetic biology and students are mixing with explosive results. Remember the international Genetically Engineered Machine competition we told you was coming? It happened, and...
Magnetic resonance imaging has been hailed as a possible means of creating the ultimate lie detector. Yet the first publicized fMRI evidence admitted into...
The average touchscreen leaves you petting or clawing at a flat surface, but the new PhotoelasticTouch system gives you something to squeeze. Produced by...
