If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!An pill-sized brain chip has allowed a quadriplegic man to check e-mail and play computer games using his thoughts. The device can tap into a hundred neurons at a [...]

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All about today! Got a couple of minutes? Then watch this.

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Metphomod is a 3D visualization tool for modeling meteorology and atmospheric chemistry — that is, smog. It was used to study pollution patterns in Europe in the late 1990s, with a particular focus on the air chemistry over Grenoble and over the Swiss canton of Obwalden. The illustration at right is from work done in [...]

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In the not-so-distant future, your wristwatch could stop you if you try to run out the door without the necessities you need for the day, like your keys, wallet or cell phone.
At work, it could prompt you for important items needed for a meeting or a business lunch. In an academic setting, it could remind [...]

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IBM and United Arab Emirates University jointly developed a “smart box” telematics system that can warn drivers if they’re breaking the speed limit, record actions taken during an accident and even issue speeding tickets to offenders. The system combines cellular, GPS and voice recognition technologies to provide totalitarian control of the driving populus. Oh, and [...]

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Topobo is a 3D constructive assembly system embedded with kinetic memory, the ability to record and playback physical motion. Unique among modeling systems is Topobo’s coincident physical input and output behaviors. By snapping together a combination of Passive (static) and Active (motorized) components, people can quickly assemble dynamic biomorphic forms like animals and skeletons with [...]

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KITTY, a finger-mounted keyboard for data entry into PDA’s, Pocket PC’s and Wearable Computers which has been developed here at the University of California in Irvine.
KITTY was one of this years ISWC (Int. Symposium on Wearable Computers) Wearable Fashion Show main features (see here).
KITTY, an acronym for Keyboard-Independent Touch-TYping, is a fingermounted keyboard that [...]

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New ’smart bricks’ are wired to signal buildings’ structural problems.
Smart bombs. Smart drugs. Smart cards. And now … smart bricks. Equipped with electronic sensors, these clay-fired building blocks could make homes and office towers far more “intelligent” than today’s versions - and, quite possibly, safer.
For example, smart-brick technology might have helped firefighters change their rescue [...]

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Imagine this. You’re driving around in your HOV (highly ostentatious vehicle), and you follow your normal route home.
The next day, you are notified by your insurance company: “Under the terms of Court Order 34/FKC/34 paragraph 12 subsection iii, your auto insurance is void.”
It turns out that you drove within a mile of the house [...]

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MIT-NASA team to test first interplanetary laser communication link.
A NASA?MIT Lincoln Laboratory team will forge the first laser communication link between Mars and Earth. This unique experiment, part of NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration, will greatly benefit the transmission of data from robotic spacecraft.
In 2010, the Mars Laser Communication Demonstration (MLCD) will test the [...]

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The Deadly Instruments of the New World Order
by Mojmir Babacek
In October 2000, Congressman Denis J. Kucinich introduced in the House of Representatives a bill, which would oblige the American president to engage in negotiations aimed at the ban of space based weapons.
In this bill, the definition of a weapons system included:
“any other unacknowledged or as [...]

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Milk and meat from cloned animals probably is safe for human consumption, but there are still a lot of unknowns, according to a new report.
A National Academy of Sciences report released Wednesday said there’s no evidence that milk or meat from cloned animals will make anyone sick. But it also said researchers need better testing [...]

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Cataclysmic waves that smash ships to bits are considered the stuff of sailors’ tales. But data gathered by the European Space Agency proves otherwise: rogue waves exist and surface more frequently than previously known.
More than 200 massive cargo ships sank over the past two decades and some of them could have fallen victim to “freak” [...]

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Earthly spin-offs of technology developed for space travel has long been a bonus for nations launching humans and machines into orbit.
Two new machines developed with the help of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have found their way into hospitals on Earth, where physicians have put them to use sniffing out harmful microbes and [...]

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Fort Benning’s International Aerial Robotics Competition tests ingenuity.
What if there was a robot that could fly? Perhaps, even save a life or gather information on an enemy?
That’s what future scientists and engineers set out to do Thursday at the 14th Annual International Aerial Robotics Competition at Fort Benning’s McKenna Urban Operations Site.
The first robot that [...]

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Nanomaterial Yields Cool Results
A pinch of iron dramatically boosts the cooling performance of a material considered key to the development of magnetic refrigerators, report researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the June 24 issue of the journal Nature. The achievement might move the promising technology closer to market, opening the [...]

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Airplane 3G mobile phone test successful
American Airlines and Qualcomm have completed a test flight of a new system to allow airplane passengers to use their mobile phones while in the air. The 3G “picocell” network used on the 2 hour proof-of-concept flight out of Dallas allowed passengers to place calls, send text messages, and [...]

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Microsoft wins patent to exploit network potential of skin. Fact or fiction - carrying a keyboard on your arm.
Call it the ultimate wireless network. From the ends of your fingers to the tips of your toes, the human body is a moving, throbbing collection of tubes and tunnels, filled with salty water and all capable [...]

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Would You Like a Bouquet of Nanoflowers?
Today the Institute of Physics releases some of the most beautiful science images of the year so far, a collection of photomicrographs of tiny “flowers” and “trees” less than one thousandth the width of a human hair. The images are published in the Institute journal Nanotechnology.
These stunning images were [...]

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A novel idea for piping in sunlight where dreary fluorescent bulbs have long dominated.
Imagine if dull fluorescent lights could pump sunshine into your office instead. As this technology featured in Discover Magazine reports, researchers are doing that with fiber optics, promising office workers increased well-being and improved productivity.
In 2001, an estimated 25 percent of [...]

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