Technology

You may not know this, but Twitter is actually not that great.   The website itself is clunky. Add-ons are what made it successful.   Sometimes Twitter has acquired them, like with…

   Object: a book         Location: high shelf, exact location unknown   Agent: Swarmanoid, robot swarm consisting out of three types of robot.…

Greater virtual realism is always shown in television shows like "Star Trek: The Next Generation" as people who act out an alternate life as a farmer or solve mysteries in the 1800s, and that may…

Imagine you are living within a bubble.  Your bubble stretches in any direction but you are always contained within it.  Your bubble is adrift in a sea that has no bottom, only a surface.…

Thomas Edison did a lot right but there is one thing he got very, very wrong. Namely, a talking doll that was sure to be an inspiration for generations of future horror movie fans.   It was a…

But...but...you have to love journalists, according to journalists.  Only we hold government accountable and gotcha videos and bloggers rehashing what we come up with or they see in press…

One of the fundamental precepts we laid out in the original Science 2.0® vision was collaboration.  It's tricky stuff, collaboration, it requires scientists who are often competitors to…

The Economist has published a highly amusing (at least to me) and informative article about "the new robotics," inspired by the diversity of natural forms: UNTIL recently, most robots could be…

Short post about this URL, a Google Doc spread sheet. Not sure if Google+ will take off and stay off the ground. I used Google Wave which disappeared into the sea.If you are a  Science blogger…

Students are often driven by baser concerns and robotics students even more so - hungry all of the time?  Invent a robot that can cook.   Need to take over the Republic?   Build some…