Technology

High tech solutions to low-tech problems

Yesterday, Eric Taub reviewed an interesting device in the Gadgetwise blog in the New York Times. It’s a pair of transceivers that help you locate your car even if you’re a half mile from it. You leave one transceiver in the car, take the other with you, ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Apr 27 2010 - 10:01am

10 Emerging Technologies-Engineered Stem Cells

  Engineered Stem Cells    The small plastic vial in James ­Thomson's hand contains more than 1.5 billion carefully coddled heart cells grown at Cellular Dynamics, a startup based in Madison, WI. They are derived from a new type of stem cell that ­Th ...

Blog Post - Anonymous - Apr 27 2010 - 4:38am

Virtual Muscle Machine Gets Disabled Children Moving

Researchers at Tel Aviv University are developing a new "virtual" method to analyze movement patterns in children ― and more effectively treat those with debilitating motor disorders. The team is using a "virtual tabletop" called the EL ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2010 - 4:33pm

Nanodot Chip Stores Library's Worth Of Information

If you thought storing your entire music library on an iPod was cool, you haven't seen anything yet.  Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a computer chip that can store an entire library's worth of information on a singl ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 28 2010 - 11:36am

What's the Point?

Sometimes I find an article that is supposed to be about science or technology and I can't help but wonder what the point of bringing up the subject was.  A recent LiveScience article entitled " Rising Fuel Costs Could Help Make Electric Planes A ...

Blog Post - Gerhard Adam - Apr 28 2010 - 7:00pm

Regulating the Internet?

The New York Times recently published an editorial opining that the Federal Communications Commission should reclassify broadband Internet service, from a U.S. regulatory point of view, as a communications service (rather than an information service, as i ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Apr 30 2010 - 6:00am

China's Busy Blogosphere Won't Stifle State Surveillance

China's cyberculture may be growing rapidly,  but experts say it is unlikely to usher in an age of social and political freedom in the communist state, and may even facilitate government control free of expression. According to a new study in Telemati ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 29 2010 - 3:41pm

Neural Nets Predict When Sheep Chew

Imagine you wanted to predict when sheep would chew. (Don't ask why...just imagine.) Here's how you would do it: attach speakers to the tops of sheep heads to broadcast chewing sounds. Collect chewing sounds and their times in a massive database. ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Jun 26 2010 - 8:46am

Night Vision: There's An App For That

A University of Florida engineer has crafted a nickel-sized imaging device that uses organic light-emitting diode technology similar to that found in laptop screens for night vision. The device is paper-thin, light and inexpensive, making it a possible add ...

Article - News Staff - May 4 2010 - 11:45am

Google Chrome versus a potato

In the interest of wanting to prove to the skeptics that the latest Chrome beta version is actually faster than lightening, Google set up these awesome speed tests to see whether Chrome can load faster than a speeding potato shot from a cannon, lightning s ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - May 5 2010 - 7:09pm