Technology

Android Phones Take Top Four Spots In User Satisfaction

Apple's iPhone success is unquestioned but the perception exceeds the reality. Instead, the more modest expectations of Android devices make people far more satisfied with them.  iPhone 5 only ranks fifth in device satisfaction in a study of 93,825 U ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 12 2013 - 10:38am

A Rosetta Stone For Ancient Protolanguages

A group has created a new computer system that can quickly reconstruct protolanguages, the rudimentary ancient tongues from which modern languages evolved. And their tool is already 85 percent as accurate as the manual reconstructions performed by expert ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2013 - 7:01pm

Atlas By Collins Helps Put A Russian Meteorite In Context

As most of the entire world knows by now, Mother Nature gave us a bit of a surprise this week- a meteor exploded in the atmosphere and shattered windows and injured hundreds of people in the  Chelyabinsk region of Russia. With just the concussive force of ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 22 2013 - 10:40am

Lulu: App For Objectifying Men Passes 100,000 Downloads In Time For Valentine's Day

Lulu, the iOS and Android app for reviewing and objectifying men, had a good first week, reaching the Top 20 in the U.S App. store with over 100,000 downloads.   On Lulu, girls anonymously ridicule and rate men on appearance, humor, manners, ambition, fir ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 14 2013 - 3:16pm

InVEST: Open Source Software Helps Place Offshore Wind Turbines

Offshore wind has potential to help the United States meet its growing energy needs, but the U.S. marine renewable energy industry has lagged behind Europe for decades. Recent government subsidies have accelerated renewable energy development in U.S. wate ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2013 - 5:23pm

Holy Robotic Bat Wing!

The strong, flapping flight of bats looks fun but mimicking the function of ligaments, the elasticity of skin, the structural support of musculature, skeletal flexibility, upstrokes and downstrokes robotically also offers great possibilities for the desig ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2013 - 1:46pm

The Lid’s Tale

Not long ago, we acquired a range of inexpensive storage vessels, ideal for keeping leftovers in the fridge before they go into yours truly, the family dustbin.  Here is an example: the steel dish is covered by a tight-fitting plastic (presumably polyethyl ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Feb 25 2013 - 9:39am

Tablets for creativity and science- and the raspberry Pi

There are now many affordable and even out right cheap tablets- computers with touch screens- available, useful computers for even less than the famous $100 laptops were supposed to be. These are sold with various versions of the android system, with a lin ...

Blog Post - Ladislav Kocbach - Feb 27 2013 - 10:03am

Microsoft Surface Pro reviewed from a scientist perspective. This is the future of personal computing.

With the Surface Pro Microsoft has made a statement on what a PC should be for the next five to ten years.   Rather than fading away the PC will become thin, lite, and easy to use while retaining the flexibility that has always been the hallmark of the pe ...

Blog Post - Hontas Farmer - Feb 24 2013 - 11:58pm

German Research Center For Artificial Intelligence: Smart Eye Tracking Glasses For Augmented Reality

SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) discuss new augmented reality applications which trigger information by eye gaze. Eye tracking technology by SensoMotoric Instruments (SMI) was used by resear ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2013 - 12:17pm