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Personal computers could soon fit entirely on a key ring. Researchers at IBM have developed a way to carry a powerful, personalised virtual computer from one PC to the next, without losing the user�s work.
The trick is to store the virtual computer on a USB key, or any portable device with substantial storage space, [...]
In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects.
Scientists have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal.
An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and [...]
Be among the first to have the speed spy devices fitted in your car. They would be offered a discount on the congestion charge if they use the system. Times UK Continue reading “Forget police radars - satellites will monitor your speed and apply brakes as necessary. Consider yourself owned.”
This is not the plot [...]
Hours after a Nasa probe crashed into Comet Tempel 1, legal reverberations were felt in a Moscow court. A case which could see Nasa pay a local amateur astrologist millions of dollars in damages.
Writer Marina Bay claims that by slamming the probe into the comet, Nasa endangered the future of civilisation.
“Nobody has yet proven that [...]
Audiopad is a composition and performance instrument for electronic music which tracks the positions of objects on a tabletop surface and converts their motion into music. One can pull sounds from a giant set of samples, juxtapose archived recordings against warm synthetic melodies, cut between drum loops to create new beats, and apply digital processing [...]
Want to have breast implants but worried they may not be so pleasing to God? Wondering if the marketing campaign devised to boost your business is spiritually sound? If you are a Shia looking for guidance, what you may find useful is your very own online ayatollah - a sort of electronic agony aunt with [...]
Rubbish dumps of Oxyrhynchus, a city that flourished after the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great in 332 B.C. reveals texts of Trojan Wars and early Christian gospels that do not appear in the New Testament. Originally developed by NASA scientists and used to map the surface of Mars, multispectral imaging was successfully applied [...]
NASA is developing a subvocal speech system that could enable you to make a phone call while keeping your lips sealed. How do you talk to someone without opening your mouth? Psychics call it telepathy. NASA refers to it as subvocal speech. Scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center in California have developed a system [...]
That’s right. The founder and CEO of Hufu, LLC — the company that produces hufu, a type of tofu that simulates the texture and flavor of human flesh — claims that his company’s product “tastes like beef but a little softer in texture and a little sweeter in taste.
AwareFashion are clothes that react to invisible communication technology in the surrounding and thus enable the wearer to sense their immediate digital environment. The detection device is hidden in a detachable pocket and the fiber optics sewed into the cloth. When a mobile is near, small light spots appear on the sleeve.
In the �70s and �80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon, to protect their crops in Nicaragua. Today, the men and women who worked on those plantations suffer from incurable illnesses. Their children are deformed. The companies feign innocence… Nemagon�also known as dibromochloropropane, or DBCP�was developed in the [...]
Researchers in the US are using old inkjet printers to produce sheets of human skin to be used on burn victims. They think that this ’skin-printing’ method will minimize rejections by patients and reduce post-operative complications. In this article, the Wall Street Journal (paid registration needed) writes that while the technology is still in its [...]
Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification. The move, which is causing disgust and revulsion among critics, is bound to strengthen accusations that GM technology is creating “Frankenstein foods” and drive the controversy surrounding it to new heights.
Even before this development, many people, including [...]
Russian doctor makes artificial eye out of patient’s teeth
The military is investigating weapons that use directed-energy beams to paralyze attackers, shoot down missiles or repel adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin. But some experts are concerned about unknown side effects.
A few months from now, Peter Anthony Schlesinger hopes to zap a laser beam at a couple of chickens or other [...]
China, the world’s biggest maker of DVD players, moved on Tuesday to create its next-generation rival, the EVD, a step toward a new national industry standard that would bypass royalty payments to Japanese DVD makers.
Beijing E-world Technology, the corporate entity of a government-backed consortium of businessmen and academics, and two DVD manufacturers unveiled the indigenous, [...]
A series of cyber-attacks Tuesday left some of the Web’s most high-profile sites staggering under the weight of tens of thousands of bogus messages.
The targets included retail giant Amazon.com, electronic auction house eBay, discount retailer Buy.com and CNN Interactive.
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