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Science

Mobile Phones: No Risk Of Brain Tumours?

Gizmodo AU

A new study of 358,403 mobile phone subscribers over an 18 year period suggests that there may be no link between phone use and the prevalence of brain tumours, although Australian experts are cautious about the results.

October 18, 2011
Entertainment

Watch A Couple Of Interactive Projections Duke It Out With Disney’s SideBySide

We’ve lamented that handheld projectors aren’t quite worth toting around just yet. But that could soon change if Disney’s research wing manages to get their SideBySide interactive projectors past the prototype stage.

September 24, 2011
Science

XKCD Comic: Hedging Against Those Faster-Than-Light Particles

Yes, OK, it’s terribly exciting that Einstein’s theory of relativity has been put on notice by some perky faster-than-light neutrinos. But science, I’ve been burned before by your outsized enthusiasms. So here’s a great way to hedge my bets.

September 22, 2011
Science

Electric Shocks Can Aid Learning

Gizmodo AU

That time you stuck a fork in the electric socket as a youngster? Not only were you learning a valuable lesson about pain, but you may have also been firing up your brain, according to new research.

Science

Why Your Wife Remembers Everything Barry White Sang

Want your wife or girlfriend to remember that you need the car on Saturday, drop your voice a few octaves. NPR reports that research conducted by Kevin Allan of the University of Aberdeen King’s College in Scotland determined that women are more likely to remember something when spoken to in a low-pitch voice.

September 10, 2011
Online

How Researchers Stole Emails From Fortune 500 Companies

Two researchers who set up doppelganger domains to mimic legitimate domains belonging to Fortune 500 companies say they managed to vacuum up 20 gigabytes of misaddressed email over six months.

August 14, 2011
Gadgets

Back-of-the-Hand Touch Interface Is Perfect For Super Spies

This “wristwatch” looks clunky as all hell now, but with work it has some formidable applications. It was designed to use the back of your hand as a haptic interface. It’s obvious. It was meant for James Bond.

August 8, 2011
Science

The Earth Has A Ring

Of anti-protons! While it’s not as visually cool as what Saturn has going for it, this is still an important development, even if we can’t technically “see” the ring with our primitive Earthling eyes.

July 4, 2011
Science

What Is This?

Cylon raider? A new Tron vehicle that we’ll see in an upcoming director’s cut? Definitive proof that we are not alone? Actually, it’s none of those things, but the dead silence it produces is amazing anyway.

June 27, 2011
Geek Out

Let The PossessedHand Electromagically Take Over Your Limbs And Create A Masterpiece

Having trouble learning the violin? Finges not moving as they should? All thumbs? Just be patient. In the future there will exist devices that take control of your limbs and use electricity to make them move on their own.

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