It’s over. We’ve both known this was a long time coming. Things just feel stagnant, you know? I mean, at first, we were both exciting and passionate. You gave me the moon! You took me places I’d never been before! But now, well, we’ve gotten into a rut. We just go to the same place […]
Back to the Future 2 has become the litmus test for whether or not we’ve actually entered “the future.” It looks like we may be one step closer to entering that reality — a team in France has made a hoverboard. That said, the device doesn’t have “the POW-ah” to float more than 2cm off the […]
I’ve always thought about mind control in such an abstract and magical way, but it’s really quite simple. The more we analyze the patterns of the human brain, the more easily we can aggregate that data and turn it into simple, then gradually more complex, input. To get started, we just have to collect that […]
The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab has made a breakthrough resulting in longer-lasting lithium-ion batteries. Berkeley says the key is in the creation of a new polymer binder surrounding silicon particles that make up the anode of the battery. In existing li-on batteries, the silicon is surrounded by a binding material such as PVDF, mixed with […]
In a gaming world saturated with online achievements, the most badass achievement has got to be “Helped Fight AIDS IRL”. How does one go about getting it? Simple: just unravel a complicated three-dimensional architecture of an AIDS-like virus that has eluded scientists for nearly a decade. The game that made this real-life achievement possible, appropriately […]
According to C-3P0, the odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are approximately 3,720 to 1. According to NASA, the odds of someone getting hit by a piece of falling satellite this week are slightly better, at 3,200 to 1. On approximately September 23, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS), a dead six-ton satellite decommissioned […]
A massive blackout struck the American Southwest Thursday afternoon and continues to affect millions this morning. At its peak, the power outage affected five million people, stretching all the way from Orange County, California through Arizona and into northern Mexico. Though some power was restored around 9:00 PST, officials expect most areas to have widespread […]
The idea of simulating an entire city on the computer has been around since at least 1987, when Maxis Software was founded and began releasing their popular Sims series. IBM now takes the idea a step further, with CityOne — a software simulation that places the user in the role of city planner, dealing with […]
Can we find immortality? It looks like technology might be catching up to this long sought-after goal of not kicking on to the afterlife (or absence of one).
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Why the heck would I go shoe shopping when I can buy a sexy pair of robot pants instead? I recently did some YouTube surfing to catch up on the latest development in robotics and was surprised to find how far we’ve come in the development of exoskeletons. As of 2007, Berkeley Bionics had created […]
