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Apple to Announce iPad 3 on March 7th (With Bonus Rumors)
iPad 3 Announcement Apple Apple just sent out invites to what, with our Holmesian deduction skills, we can safely say will be an event announcing the next iPad. It'll be held on March 7th in Apple's...
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Under the Sea: In the Age of Wireless, Can't We Do Better than...
Fiber Optic Cables rpongsaj (CC licensed)This week's outage in Africa reminds us of the vulnerable physicality of the Internet On Saturday, a ship waiting to enter the Kenyan port city of Mombasa...
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Video: Hack a Common Slingshot into a USB Peripheral for 'Angry Birds'
The USB Slingshot for Angry Birds via mbed Launching Angry Birds from a slingshot on your iPhone screen is fun, but actually launching Angry Birds from a slingshot sounds difficult, and borderline...
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Video: Microsoft IllumiShare Lets You Play Remotely With Physical Objects
Microsoft IllumiShare Microsoft IllumiShare, from Microsoft Research (also responsible for holodesks), is a system to allow two people to interact with various objects remotely. It gives cooperative...
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Will Doctors Ever Cure Migraines?
Brain Pain Jonathan Carlson My first migraine arrived in a fuzzy cloud of reds and purples, a stab of pain that left me bent over in the back of an auto-rickshaw, squinting and nauseous, on my morning...
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No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart
Artificial Heart Jack ThompsonThis 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it Meeko the calf stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He didn't...
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Chinese Drones Will Use Genetic Algorithms to Learn to Hunt For Submarines
The U.S. Navy's Fire Scout Ship-Launched UAV China plans to hunt submarines using its own sea-launched UAVs running genetic algorithms. U.S. Navy China usually holds its military hand very close to the...
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Heart Stop Beating is a three-minute documentary film about the no-pulse, continuous-flow artificial heart, which Dan Baum writes about in our Future of Medicine issue. It tells the story of Billy...
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Video: Japanese Robots Attempt Chaotic Game of American Football
Robot Football Line of Scrimmage via YouTube During the dark sports month of February, when there's nothing to watch but mid-season NBA games, sometimes I think about the NFL draft. With so many long...
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Remote Aliens Could Detect Life On Earth By Looking At the Moon
Crescent Moon and Earthshine The thin crescent moon sets over ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile. The crescent is clearly visible, but you can also see the rest of the moon very faintly, because of the...
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Video: NASA's Methane-Powered Launcher Lifts Off With a Blue-Hot Column of Flame
Project Morpheus Launch Project Morpheus hot fire #5 was successful earlier this week. NASA NASA's Project M, an awesome concept to use vertical launch systems to send robonauts to the moon, is still...
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Lytro Light-Field Camera Review: Shoot, Then Focus
Lytro and Buildings John MahoneyLytro's promise of post-shot refocusing is unlike anything we've ever seen--but does it live up to expectations? To win our Innovation of the Year award, the Lytro had...
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Virgin Oceanic Wants to Send Humans Back Down into the Mariana Trench
Virgin Oceanic's Proposed Submersible Virgin Oceanic If you thought space was the only frontier Virgin has an interest in tackling, you've been missing out on Virgin Oceanic's drive to pilot the first...
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Hands-On: Windows 8 Brings Tablet-Style Simplicity To The Desktop
Windows 8 Metro Start Menu There's a mix of Metro apps (the brightly-colored ones like Photos, Store, and Weather) and regular Windows programs (like Internet Explorer) in this new Start screen. Dan...
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Text Message Autocorrect Results in Police Lockdown
Autocorrect IMHO, people should spell out their words in text messages. Otherwise you get embarrassing mistakes. Then your whole school gets locked down. This just happened in Florida. Srsly. On...
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Storm Watch: Driven By Warm Air, Massive Tornado Outbreak Forecast for Friday
Tornado NOAA via Wikimedia Commons A storm system brewing in the Rockies today might trigger an outbreak of deadly tornadoes in the nation's midsection on Friday, according to meteorologists. In case...
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Japanese Home-Levitation System Could Protect Buildings From Earthquakes
Earthquake Levitation System via Spoon & Tamago Instead of building super-strong yet flexible structures to withstand earthquakes, what if you built your house to levitate on a cushion of air? This...
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Speech Jamming Gun Freezes Any Talker Mid-Sentence
BAM! You've Just Been Speech Jammed via arXiv Want to be the kind of person who causes entire rooms to fall silent when you enter? Researchers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science...
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Video: The Smart Shopping Cart of the Future Follows You Through the Store
The Smart Shopping Cart of the Future is Windows 8 Enabled Using Kinect and Windows 8 Since the less-than-earth-shattering development of the self-checkout line, grocery shopping hasn't come a long...
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Now Underway: the U.S.'s First Suborbital Balloon Factory
Near Space Corp Balloon Near Space Corporation The Near Space Corporation, which has won contracts from NASA in the past, announced this week that it'll be building a commercial high-altitude (still...
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