Intelligent Workplace: The Office of the Future
You spend all day there, and if the latest trends in green office architecture catch on you will soon start enjoying your workplace a lot more. Plans for the future office include a spactially flexible environment, in which workstations and ... [... more]
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You Do It: Make Your Own Light Bulb
Want to feel smarter than Edison? Build a lightbulb the modern way with some helium and an old welder. The stick welder provides enough juice to heat the tungsten to nearly 5,000°F, the ice bucket acts as the bulb, and the helium displaces ... [... more]
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Minuscule Motor Runs on Sunlight
Sunlight powers this little engine, which produces zero waste. The solar-powered four-stroke nanomotor. Energy from the sun drives the movement of the yellow ring structure like a piston. Credit: PNAS Scientists have developed tiny four-stroke ... [... more]
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New Glasses Double as Hearing Aids
Spectacles with tiny embedded microphones on each side are said to work much better than traditional hearing aids. Schematic of the hearing glasses. The sound signals from the microphones pass through a special processor before they are conducted ... [... more]
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Incredible New Military Robot
See Video: It climbs hills, negotiates rocky terrain, mud and snow, and even survives a swift kick. Big Dog poses for the camera in Boston Dynamic's robot proving grounds in Massachusetts. Credit: John B. Carnett Meet BigDog, a mechanical mutt ... [... more]
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Fantastic Voyage to Save the Heart
A new technique is reminiscent of the 1966 science fiction movie. Their study will appear in the January 2006 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation. From the study: Narrowed or blocked blood vessels are unable to deliver sufficient ... [... more]
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Freaky Fractal Fingers, Fingers, Fingers
Dactyl Fractal Zoom at Zapato Productions will weird you out. Heinlein also pursued similar ideas a bit earlier in his 1940 novella Roboticist Hans Moravec conceived of a more "fractal" version of this idea; a "bush robot" (also [... more]
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Robot Bartender Pours, Listens
The T-Rot thinking robot will make its public debut this week. The T-Rot thinking robot will make its public debut at the APEC forum underway now in Busan, Korea. T-Rot is shown below tending bar at the Robot Cafe, pouring a drink for Kim ... [... more]
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Digital Newspapers Almost Here
Siemens says it has lowered production costs for paper-thin displays sufficiently to allow their use in newspapers and magazines. Siemens, a German electronics firm, says that it has lowered production costs for paper-thin displays sufficiently ... [... more]
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Military Plans Cyborg Sharks
DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) has taken another page from science fiction writer William Gibson's book by creating a neural implant to enable engineers to remotely manipulate a shark's brain signals. This would eventually allow ... [... more]
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New Robot to Use Legs and Wheels
The thing sounds just like the smart wheels in a Neal Stephenson novel. The IMPASS robot will use rimless wheels with spokes that can lengthen or shorten according to terrain. IMPASS, which stands for Intelligent Mobility Platform with Active ... [... more]
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Arthur C. Clarke's 'Newspad' Finally Arrives
Sony brings a new dimension to the electronic book with its new Sony Reader. Sony brings a new dimension to the electronic book with its new Sony Reader. Measuring just 6.9" x 4.9" x .5", it holds up to 80 average sized books at a time. [... more]
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