Tuesday’s announcement by startup Planetary Resources that they have plans to start a privatized asteroid mining operation seems the stuff of science fiction made reality. This is literally a plot point in countless science fiction books and movies, usually to get the protagonists in an out of the way location so all kinds of space chaos can break […]
Last night, Techcitement received a nod from The Colbert Report — winner of multiple Emmys, two Peabody awards, a special recognition by the GLAAD Media awards, and current home to Captain America’s shield — for its article bout male birth control by Jon Clinkenbeard. During a segment called “Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, […]
What do director James Cameron, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page (executive chairmen of Google, respectively), and Ross Perot Jr. have in common? They’re all going into the space mining business, backing the startup company Planetary Resources. Planetary Resources hopes to have a private spacecraft operational in less than two years, using it to mine for […]
Google’s Project Glass may be getting the lion’s share of media publicity right now, but other companies want to get in your face with wearable technologies too. Oakley’s CEO, Colin Baden, recently told Bloomberg that the company hopes to release sunglasses with the ability to project additional information into the wearer’s field of view. The […]
Verizon has the largest LTE network in the United States. There’s no question about that as Verizon is about to cover two-thirds of the U.S. population with expansion to 230 markets, significantly more than AT&T’s small but fast LTE network and orders of magnitude beyond Sprint’s nascent new 4G. However, Verizon wants to expand further […]
Do you remember that scene in Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home where Scotty teaches an engineer how to make the future technology of transparent aluminum? Canadian scientist Peter Jansen didn’t need a man from the future to show him how to make things from Star Trek when he built himself a tricorder. More […]
NeuroVigil, a neurodiagnostics company headquartered in San Diego, has developed a way to hack your brain during sleep by using a headband fitted with electrodes to the wearer’s head to record brainwaves. The company hopes this technology could be used to help people with neurological disorders, such as prominent physicist and author Stephen Hawking, communicate. […]
Japanese inventors have a way of blowing my mind. This time researchers at Keio University’s Anzai-Imai Laboratory (LMAI) have come up with robotic “Pygmy” rings that look like blinking eyes and a mouth so you can make faces with your hand. Graduate student Masayasu Ogata put on his best suit and sweater vest to demonstrate […]
Royal Canadian Mint challenges software developers to help create innovative new applications for digital payment with their MintChip Challenge. The incentive is payment of over two pounds of pure gold, spread out over seven different prize categories that include Best Micropayment Application, Best P2P (person to person) Application, and three Best Overall Application awards. All […]
Rumors have been surfacing here and there for some time now about a secret project inside the halls of Google. Glasses, powered by Android, bringing augmented reality not just to our smartphones, but to our everyday lives have been the topic of conversations involving Google. Yesterday, those rumors were confirmed as reality. Google’s Project Glass […]
