Science

The ADE 651: The Ultimate Non-Working Bomb Detector

The ADE 651 is a device with an impressive marketing angle. Over in Iraq, it’s being used to sniff out everything from bombs to guns to drugs and beyond, and detect them all from a distance [...]

Daylight Savers Help Thrown Off Schedules

All right, road warriors, pay attention–because this is some really awesome news, especially if you have to do a lot of time-zone hopping in the course of your travels. This is also awesome for anyone with [...]

RC Driver Tissue Box Drives Tissues To You

Now this is actually a really fun idea–you know how, when you were a kid, you probably used to imagine various household objects as race cars? Well, now you can do it for real with the [...]

Casmobot Lawnmower Controlled With A Wiimote (video)

It’s always pretty interesting to see other things besides the Wii get controlled via Wiimote. Some have hooked it to Airsoft guns or what have you, but today I’ve dug up a little something interesting. Thanks [...]

The Phraselator: A Universal Translator Can’t Be Far

So I was digging around when I found DARPArama, kind of a clearinghouse of prototypes and ideas and whatnot out of DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. And I started reading about the Phraselator…and frankly, [...]

Track Your Children’s Movements: The ET3500 Tracking Bracelet

Remember how yesterday we were talking about tracking your children with a simple USB device from Insignia? Well, apparently, the child tracker phenomenon is really taking off because another device has stepped up to challenge, the [...]

Little Buddy Child Tracker Is Commercial Quality Homing Device

It’s…um…about ten thirty AM. Do you know where your children are? If you can’t answer yes to that, and even if you can, you may still want to get your hands on a Little Buddy Child [...]

Boston Dynamics New Robot Walks Like An Actual Person

So originally I was going to write about India’s newfound fascination with the road spike, but then I thought better of it and discovered that Boston Dynamics was actually well on its way to making Terminators. [...]

The Royal College Of Art Develops The Breakfast Machine

If you’ve seen a Wallace and Gromit cartoon lately, chances are you’re familiar with at least something vaguely like what I’m about to point out today–the Breakfast Machine. Breakfast Machines aren’t exactly new. There was one [...]

The SpikerBox: Shade Tree Neuroscience At Home

There’s a startup company out there called Backyard Brains, run by a pair of neuroscientists who are marketing a piece of equipment they designed and built themselves called the SpikerBox. And when you hear what this [...]

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