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Engadget (Free subscription) | yesterday
Welcome to the Engadget Holiday Gift Guide ! The team here is well aware of the heartbreaking difficulties of the seasonal shopping experience, and we want to help you sort through the trash and come up with the treasures this year. Below is today's bevy of hand curated picks, and you can head back to the Gift Guide hub to see the rest of the product guides as they're added throughout the holiday...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
The Large Hadron Collider -- the world's most powerful particle accelerator -- circulated two beams simultaneously for the first time on Nov. 23, allowing the operators to test the synchronization of the beams and giving the experiments their first chance to look for proton-proton collisions.
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Scientific American (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
What would happen if solar panels were free? What if it were possible to know everything about the world--not the Internet, but the living, physical world--in real time? What if doctors could forecast a disease years before it strikes? This is the promise of the World Changing Idea: a vision so simple yet so ambitious that its full impact is impossible to predict. Scientific American’s editorial...
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A newly designed straw house -- built of pre-fabricated straw-bale and hemp panels -- has fire resistance as good as houses built of conventional building materials, according to researchers in the UK.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
A combination of imaging tests conducted six to eight weeks after patients complete chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer may help identify patients who will respond to treatment and those who will require surgical follow-up, according to a new study.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
With a bit of leverage, researchers have used a very tiny beam of light with as little as 1 milliwatt of power to move a silicon structure up to 12 nanometers. That's enough to completely switch the optical properties of the structure from opaque to transparent.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Risk of bladder cancer for smokers has increased since the mid-1990s, with a risk progressively increasing to a level five times higher among current smokers in New Hampshire than that among nonsmokers in 2001-2004, according to a new study.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Are you a female athlete -- or just someone who likes challenging workouts -- who also wants to get pregnant? It may make sense to ease off a bit as you try to get pregnant. New research shows that the body may not have enough energy to support both hard workouts and getting pregnant.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Search engine technology is in a state of flux as it digs ever deeper for new meaning.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Physicists have made an important advance in electrically controlling quantum states of electrons, a step that could help in the development of quantum computing.
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Science Daily (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Seventy percent of U.K. households always separate their rubbish for recycling, but only 2 percent buy their energy on a green tariff, according to the early findings of a major new annual household survey.
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Eldar Murtazin, the man/legend behind Mobile Review has snagged one of those already leaked SE Kurara handsets, and he's got some juicy info to share with the rest of us. Apparently, the CPU on that little goer is a Cortex A8 , backed by 256MB of RAM and a PowerVR graphics processor. It's no surprise then that the HD label we saw earlier has been corroborated by 720p video recording and playback capabilities,...
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
It may not be the first electric skateboard, or the fastest , or the least skateboard - like , but Xero's new eBoard Neo is controlled by a gun, and that's got to count for something. In addition to attracting attention from the law , this board will propel you along with ease at 14 miles per hour, hit 0 to 20 (kilometers, presumably) in just four seconds, and last for around 13.5 miles on a single...
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
We don't have details on exactly what has changed yet, but that minor Android 1.5-based update Sprint had announced it'd be pushing out to the Hero has now launched. The best-case scenario would have the SMS issue -- which causes the phone to stay awake when it shouldn't -- get resolved, but until Sprint hands out a proper changelog, it'll be a matter of testing and guessing. Just a thought: if they've...
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Engadget (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Engadget Show is happening again, humans! Next Sunday, November 22nd, we'll be bringing that live magic back to the stage as we sit down with Drew Bamford (you can read a bit about him here ), director of HTC's Innovation Center (the place where things like the Sense UI are born). We'll also be joined by Joystiq's Editor-in-chief Chris Grant for a special roundtable discussion focused on gaming....
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obi jo | 03/10/2009
Wow. The future of robotics could be a major breakthrough for humanity on many fronts. The key is to retain “humanity” at the center of any development process we pursue. In the 2004 film, I Robot (see link to trailer), things seemed pretty good, until they went terribly wrong. The other concern, is that we saw that in the last quarter, the only sectors of the economy to gain jobs were in health care
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applemasher | 12/08/2007
Toyota Motor Corp. displayed a 5 foot tall robot Thursday, which used its mechanical fingers to press string while using its other to bow. Toyota's president, Katsuaki Watanabe reported that robotics would be at the core of its business in the coming years. Toyota plans to start testing its robots at hospitals and Toyota related facilities as early as next year, and plans to bring them to the market
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legionofmarduk | 12/04/2007
Innovation, here lies the root of Oto Melara's continuing success in the defense industry field, an arena where the slower and more conservative competitors are mercilessly put aside. To this end the Ligurian industry, a mere two years since its foundation, has already opted to improve and widen...
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