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Computing

Why You’ll Be Hearing From Xerox PARC A Whole Lot More

1:36PM December 23, 2011 | Adrian Covert

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 »


Gadgets

Video: IBM’s Vision Of Tech Five Years From Now

5:00PM December 20, 2011 | Adrian Covert

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 »


Science

What’s On Your Mind? Give Us A Peek

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10:30AM September 25, 2009 | Chris Oaten

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 »


Science

A Pack Of Canadians Claim They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion, Cheap

10:00AM August 1, 2009 | Adrian Covert

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 »


In The Future, Robots Will Tell You How To Do Stuff, Silently Judge

11:30AM June 20, 2009 | Adrian Covert

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 »


Cameras

Researchers Cram A Camera Into A Sheet Of Fiber

11:30AM June 18, 2009 | Adrian Covert

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 »


Science

RF Cochlea Is A Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After The Inner Ear

2:30PM June 17, 2009 | Adrian Covert

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 »


Science

Scientists Discover Superconducting Material That’s Just Two Atoms Thick

4:30PM June 11, 2009 | Adrian Covert

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 »