Kinect Gaming Device Used to Weigh Astronauts
Video games really can change the world and not just make kids lazy. Thanks to video games, Astronauts now have another tool to help them…
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Microcapsules Make Self-Healing Electronics Possible
We live in a disposable world, where it seems like everything is designed to break and be replaced, but there are times when a break…
Tiny Game of Tetris Played Using a Laser Beam
Now this is what I call fun science. This micron-sized game of Tetris was developed by students from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam), who are…
Riot Shields That Create a “Wall of Sound” Patented
As they are right now, riot shields do the job of protecting police quite well, but they offer little in the way of offense. Riot…
Police Can Now Identify Your Eye Color from DNA
If they have a case with very few leads, police now have another tool in their arsenal that will at least provide one distinct factor….
Babyloid Robot Aims to Combat Depression in the Elderly
This fluffy robot is cuddly and soft, but it is no toy. Babyloid is Japan’s latest therapeutic robot baby, designed to help ease depression among…
Scottish Wind Turbine Explodes
As you can see in the above image, a wind turbine in Ardrossan, North Ayrshire, Scotland exploded on December 8th, when the area was battered…
3-D Printer Makes Custom Human Bones
We’ve been printing documents and pictures for ages and lately, 3D printers have been helping us make all kinds of 3D objects like toys and…
Qbo Robot Looks In The Mirror, Recognizes Itself
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Well, Qbo didn’t say that as it rolled up to a mirror and…
New Radar Satellite Can See Through Thick Clouds
The U.K. government wants some new sophisticated radar satellites around the Earth in order to view the planet’s surface through any type of weather, no…
Autopsies to be Replaced by CT Scans?
Will Medical Examiners be replaced by technology? A new study conducted by British researchers indicates that screening bodies with full-body computed tomography (CT) or magnetic…
Harvard Scientists Develop $5 Rubber Robot
This may not look like the future of robots that we were promised in movies like Star Wars and Star Trek, but according to scientists…
Insect Cyborgs Could Be The First Responders Of The Future
There is no shortage of brave humans that will rush into a hazardous or dangerous area in order to help people, but the problem is…
Electronic Contact Lenses Put Data on Your Eye
We’ve seen it thousands of times in movies; massive amounts of information unspooling right before someone’s eyes, without the need for any type of monitor….
minuteKEY DIY Key Duplication Machines
It’s bad enough that robots are taking so many human jobs, but now we also have to worry about vending machines. I had thought that…
Korea Developing Robot Prison Guards
The Korean Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) and Kyonggi University are teaming up to develop robot prison guards that look like the conceptual image…
E-volo Multicopter Defies Gravity and Flies
If your idea of the perfect flight involves sitting in a chair surrounded by numerous spinning blades, the E-volo has just what you’re looking for….
Disney and Pixar Join YouTube
YouTube says it really is a small world after all as the video-sharing site becomes a new home for many Walt Disney and Pixar movies….
