Technology

Shimi: Like Microsoft Bob, Except For Music

Is the world ready for a robot DJ? Sometimes you have to be bold.  People laughed at Microsoft when they introduced Microsoft Bob too; people didn't know they needed a graphical image of their office showing a fax machine to send a fax- until it was a ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2012 - 4:30am

Janken Robot Wins At Rock, Paper, Scissors Every Single Time

Is it possible to lose at Rochambeau, the millenia-old game of Rock, Paper, Sissors, every single time? It shouldn't be but a new Janken robot (Janken is the Japanese name for Rock, Paper, Scissors- why is the West stuck with a French name for an anci ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 27 2012 - 12:51pm

A Weapon That Shoots Lightning- Insert Norse Reference Here

Since "The Avengers" is a giant movie this year, when you think of something that shoots lightning, you might think of Thor.  If so, perhaps your clever joke would be "Can we name that Laser-Induced Plasma Channel "Mjolnir"? If you ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 29 2012 - 1:44pm

Science Paparazzi Photograph An Atom's Shadow

Researchers have been able to photograph the shadow of a single atom for the first time. And this absorption imaging took five years of work. They basically  wanted to investigate how few atoms are required to cast a shadow and they found it takes just one ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2012 - 12:20pm

Singularity Update: 16,000 Processors To Identify A Cat

Are we on the road to uploading our brains to computers and living forever?  Singularity proponents require a two-pronged approach to believing so; wildly overstating the technology curve of what future computers and programmers will accomplish and wildly ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 10 2012 - 2:00pm

L4 Anti-Theft Wi-Fi Tag

Ekahau Inc., a maker of high performance Wi-Fi-based Real Time Location Systems, today announced the launch of its newest Wi-Fi tag, the L4 Laptop tag. The L4 tag is a small flat unit designed to be plugged into the ExpressCard slot. The tag works with th ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 10 2012 - 4:11pm

The Necessity of Mind Uploading and Machine intelligence

Issues of “mind uploading” and “machine intelligence” have been in the tech. news of the futurist variety lately which got me thinking about these concepts and led me to write this blog post on the topic.  The first version of which was a bit of a “tongue ...

Blog Post - Omar Chedda - Jul 22 2012 - 10:47pm

How To Make Your IPad Waterproof (And Contamination-Proof Too)

Seal Shield LLC today announced delivery of the world's first iPad waterproofing solution for healthcare- form-fitting, polyurethane covers that make iPhones and iPads 100% waterproof, washable and disinfectable. SEAL SHIELDS™ have been developed for ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 13 2012 - 10:17am

GT3D: Eye Controller May Let Amputees Play Video Games With Their Eyes

If the millions of people suffering who have Multiple Sclerosis or muscular dystrophy could have one wish, it probably wouldn't be that they could use play video games- but until cures can be found, using a computer might make it a little better.  cos ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2012 - 9:58pm

Science May Help You Win Your Fantasy Football League

A team of academics from the University of Southampton thinks they will top the rest of the English Fantasy Football League when the new football season kicks off next month in England. By football, we mean Soccer to Americans.  Sorry if we confusingly us ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2012 - 10:04am