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This Week in the Future, April 9-13, 2012
This Week in the Future, April 9-13, 2012 Baarbarian There's already Angry Birds in space--why not Fruit Ninja in space? At least, that's the thesis put forth (probably; I'm not an art critic) by...
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The Goods: April 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Espro Press Sam KaplanA dozen great ideas in gear This month's roundup of The Goods includes hiking boots with sliding plates in the heels, a lightbulb with a speaker in it (or a speaker with a...
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Video: Tupac Shakur Resurrected Via Hologram to Perform at Coachella
Tupac Resurrected In the future, we will all live forever--at least if our body of work is popular enough to warrant resurrection. Just ask Tupac Shakur--now deceased for nearly 15 years--who showed up...
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The Viking Mars Missions May Have Discovered Life in 1976
The View From Viking I NASA Since the Viking Mars probes traveled to the red planet back in 1976, NASA has sent several more probes, landers, and rovers to the Martian surface to study the planet's...
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Video: Mood-Sensing Robot Prison Guard Begins First Real-World Test in Korea
Robotic Prison Guard Reuters Back in November, South Korea announced that a project to create robot prison guards was underway. And just as predicted, the robo-guards are ready for their first tests....
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Video: 3-D Printing Customized Chemistry Labware to Replace the Common Beaker
Printing Custom Labware in 3-D With baked-in catalysts The latest game being changed by 3-D printing: chemistry. A researcher at the University of Glasgow, frustrated with the inability to modify...
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Headphone Technology That Actually Helps Hearing Loss
Able Planet Personal Sound Amplifier Click here to get a bigger view of this image. Claire BenoistOriginally intended to block sound, modified noise-canceling circuitry now helps people to hear Of the...
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A Computer Constructed From a Consortium of Live Crabs
Soldier Crabs on the March Peter Ellis via Wikimedia If biomimicry is the instance of technology emulating natural processes, then this must be something like the opposite: researchers at Kobe...
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Hubble Snaps a Star Factory at the Center of the Tarantula Nebula
30 Doradus, in the Heart of the Tarantula Nebula NASA, ESA, D. Lennon and E. Sabbi (ESA/STScI), J. Anderson, S. E. de Mink, R. van der Marel, T. Sohn, and N. Walborn (STScI), N. Bastian (Excellence...
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A Model Disaster
Have engineers learned anything from the loss of the unsinkable Titanic? Will they ever? The hundredth anniversary of the wreck of the Titanic on April 15 provides a welcome moment to celebrate the...
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Video: Massive Solar Eruption Expels a Beautiful Prominence
The Solar Eruption of April 16, 2012 NASA/SDO/AIA Yesterday--at least in the northeast U.S.--was a picture-perfect, sun-shiney day. But as many of us took a few extra minutes at lunch to soak up one of...
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Can Eating Buckyball-Infused Olive Oil Prolong Your Lifespan?
Gray Whiskers stacey.d via Flickr With their strange 60-atom structures, buckyballs could have potential as drug carriers, medical tracers, cancer fighters and other interesting applications in the...
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Space Shuttle Discovery Takes a Tour of Washington, D.C.
...The Capitol Building and This Guy... A closer shot of the shuttle zooming over the Capitol building. Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images This morning, the space shuttle Discovery, riding atop a 747...
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Secret Cyber War Games Between U.S. and China Let Countries Role-Play Their...
U.S. Navy Wargames Naval officers operate the Ectocryp Black Secure Voice Gateway during Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2011 at SPAWAR Systems Center, Pacific. CWID is an annual...
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Cassini Flies Right By Saturn's Moon Enceladus, Snapping New Up-Close Pics
Enceladus's Horizon NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute The Cassini spacecraft has been busy over this past week, making close flybys of both Enceladus and and Tethys, two of Saturn's moons. And we're not...
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Bio-Armor: Printing Protective Plates From Patterns In Nature
Natural Curves To demonstrate a new approach to armor and second skin, designers printed materials in 16-micron chunks called voxels. Neri Oxman in collaboration with W. Craig Carter Neri Oxman, the...
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Gray Matter: Want a Chemical Reaction Without Heat? Add a Catalyst
Butterfly Effect Copper facilitates a reaction between oxygen and acetone, causing an earring to continuously glow red-hot even without an external heat source. How does this copper earring glow...
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Terahertz-Band Cell Phones Could See Through Walls
Seeing Through Walls Ruthanne Reid via Flickr Terahertz scanners could potentially see through walls, inside pockets and into wallets, but they're either large and expensive, or contain high-powered...
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The Louvre Replaces Old Boring Audio Tours With Nintendo 3DSes
Nintendo 3DS at the Louvre Nintendo The Louvre Museum in Paris overhauled their digital tour guide system last week, replacing it with, surprisingly, a stock of Nintendo 3DS consoles. Now you can...
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Deformities in Gulf Seafood Found After BP Oil Spill
Deformed Gulf Shrimps On the left is a Gulf shrimp with growths, while on the right are a group of shrimps without either eyes or eye sockets. Left: Keath Ladner. Right: Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera Al...
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