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'Visual Walkman' Offers Augmented Reality
"Augmented reality" involves mixing the real world with computer-generated images. The result is a kind of visual Walkman, developed by a researcher in The Netherlands.
Singularity Summit 2009: The Singularity Is Near
Ray Kurzweil wasn't like the other nice, Jewish boys he grew up with in Queens. While they were putting baseball cards in the spokes of their bikes, Ray was writing computer programs...
High-Tech Tongues Give Disabled Total Control
A new technology allows disabled people to control everything from wheelchairs to computers with their tongue. A small magnet is pierced into the person's tongue which traces the movement of...
Determinism And Unpredictability In Chaotic Systems
The science of Chaos is usually defined as the systematic study of non-linear processes within dynamic turbulent systems (see www.hesiodproject.net). Vivid examples of such systems are: the global economy and...
MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex...
Canadians shopping online as phoney Americans
Posing as an American is a ruse used increasingly by Canadian consumers shopping online for products and services not currently available in Canada.
Stock Graphs Can Mislead: People Prefer Stocks With Shorter Runs
Can the way stock information is presented lead investors to make the wrong decisions? A new study shows that when investors use charts, they are likely to make a baseless...
Learning Through Games... At Public School!
Ever play games in school? Ever have the teacher suggest you play games? Heck, ever had your entire middle and high school curricula be designed around games? In a news...
Recession May Boost Life Expectancy
Study finds faster rise in U.S. life expectancy during recessions.
Sinochem Bids For Nufarm
Merger: $2.5 billion deal would give chinese firm a global agchem platform.
San Francisco tapping into tech-savvy citizens
San Francisco is letting citizens create software tools to exploit city data for the public good.
The Audi e-tron concept electric car
(PhysOrg.com) -- Audi has unveiled its new electric car concept, the Audi e-tron at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany.
Taiwan unveils hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers
Taiwanese researchers said Friday they have developed hydrogen-powered mobile phone chargers, in a development that could boost the island's efforts to become a player in green technologies.
IBM undercuts Google with discount e-mail service
(AP) -- IBM Corp. is trying to stymie Google Inc.'s expansion into the business software market.
New quake protection
Dear Bloggers Subject: New quake protection By Leon Raychman I am Israeli structural engineer, before in the States employed By Severud Perone Assoc.N.Y, N.Y In 1999 I have received American Patent # 5946865...
You, A Bayesian
Everyday use of a mathematical concept The concept of probability is not alien to even the least mathematically versed among us: even those who do not remember the basic math they...
An animated penguin boosts kids' math scores
California's hottest new math teacher is an animated penguin named JiJi. Yes, it's true. A mute, waddling, tuxedo-clad cartoon figure has been quietly taking over math programs dotting Silicon Valley,...
Think Outside The Box By Thinking About The Box
By thinking about packaging size and shape, major environmental gains can be made, says Renee Wever, who will defend his thesis on this topic at Delft University of Technology (The...
Ig Nobel awards go to knuckle-cracker, tequila chemists, other laureates
A Thousand Oaks doctor testing an arthritis link by cracking his knuckles for 60 years is among the winners of the mock Nobel Prizes. A man who cracked the knuckles of one hand...
2012? The end is not near
Science editor Alan Boyle's Weblog: Marketers are escalating the media blitz for the "2012" disaster movie. Here are two words of advice if you're caught in the crossfire: Don't panic!
Amazon settles suit over deleted Orwell books
Amazon.com has settled a lawsuit that sprang from a Big Brother-like move of deleting books by George Orwell from its Kindle electronic readers as a quick fix for copyright concerns.
Iowa State researchers looking for catalyst that allows plants to produce hydrocarbons
Plants and algae may be a source of green, renewable hydrocarbons that could replace the ancient, finite hydrocarbons in fossil fuels, according to a team of researchers led by Iowa...
AOL Seeks New Identity as Publishing Hub
CEO Tells Conference that Content is King; Plans Mix of Paid, Ad-Supported Options as Company Breaks Free from Time Warner
Twitter testing tool to organize tweets
Twitter on Thursday began letting a small number of users test a "Lists" feature for dividing maelstroms of tweets into manageable sub-categories.
Broadband quality study finds Canada lagging
Canada has some of the poorest-quality broadband among advanced countries, according to a study of global internet infrastructure.
France aims for two million electric cars by 2020: minister
France plans to invest 1.5 billion euros (2.2 billion dollars) on infrastructure for the two million electric and hybrid cars it wants on its roads by 2020, the ecology minister...
Homeland Security to hire up to 1K cyber experts
(AP) -- The Obama administration has given a green light to the Homeland Security Department to be more competitive and choosey as it hires up to 1,000 new cyber...
Probing Question: Where are all the cool robots?
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the better part of a century, they`ve promised us robots. From Elektro, the 7-foot metal man of the 1939 World`s Fair, to Rosie the robot maid on...