Augmented-Reality Glasses: Startup’s Vision Could Change Gaming
Here’s how one startup’s vision of augmented reality will make gaming more social.
Here’s Microsoft’s New Kinect Sensor
The new Kinect was announced yesterday, and it’s better. Way better.
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3D Printers Demonstrate Rapid Robot Evolution
Robots in computer simulations can evolve complex traits in a matter of days.
13 Security and Privacy Tips for the Truly Paranoid
Some simple security tricks can satisfy even the most suspicious among us.
The Wheels Come Off Kepler Planet-Finding Mission
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft is not only the most prolific exoplanet detector ever; it is -- or was -- a marvel of engineering. Its 1.4-meter mirror funnels starlight to a 95-megapixel camera, capable of discerning dips in brightness as small as 10 parts per million -- clues to the mini-eclipses caused by an exoplanet crossing the star’s face. Yet on 14 May, the US$600-million craft was derailed by the failure of one of its only moving parts -- a roughly $200,000 device akin to a child’s gyroscope. [More]
10 fun Tumblr blogs to follow
Sure, serious-minded folks from the White House on down have taken to Tumblr, the popular blogging platform that Yahoo announced it had purchased this week.
7 mobile tools to help you survive tornadoes
A series of deadly storms that pummeled Arkansas, Missouri and other states this week reminds us that tornado season is upon us once again.
5 robot suits to make us superhuman
Bionic exoskeletons that make us superhuman could soon be a reality -- take a look at five of the most incredible robot suits being developed.
With high-tech guns, users could disable remotely
A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a cellphone controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved—and disable it remotely.
Busted! Model Nabs Peeping Tom and His iPad
A Los Angeles man gets indicted for videotaping under the skirt of a model who uses Internet to ID creep.