Much has been written about Xerox PARC, its legendary R&D legacy, and its inability to make money off their groundbreaking innovations. But what many people don’t know is that 10 years ago, it launched a new plan to turn research into dollars. This printed memory/logic circuit is the first fruit of the new plan. More »
Mind Reading. Power harvesting. No more passwords. The Death of spam. Technology for everyone. These are five thing IBM believes are the future. Not 50 years in the future, but more like five years in the future. More »
What’s that movie where they worked out a way to grab an image from your brain or your retina or somesuch and thus possibly determine the last person you saw, who was probably your murderer? Well, scientists have actually figured out how to do this. Kinda. More »
Vancouver-based startup General Fusion has been running around claiming they can build a nuclear fusion reactor in the next 10 years for under a billion dollars. And some anonymous futurists just gave them 9 million dollars for their troubles. More »
Pop Sci has a neat video of the Teamworkbot, a robot who can watch you attempt to carry out a task, then offer help when you’re doing it wrong. But I won’t lie…when you fail, Teamworkbot seems pretty intimidating. More »
Another day, another innovation from MIT researchers. This time, it’s a camera built in the middle of a 25mm fibre sheet, which might be the coolest invention we will never use (save for an appearance in Splinter Cell 10). More »
RF signal processors are pretty commonplace in consumer electronics. Which is exactly why it’s exciting that two MIT researchers have created a super-radio based around the function of the human ear that’s substantially faster and 100x more power efficient than today’s signal processors. More »
University of Texas researchers stumbled upon a new superconducting metal that is the world’s thinnest at a mere two atoms—slightly thicker than a marathon runner by comparison. More »
