Imagine a viewfinder that follows your eye, focuses wherever you look and then snaps a photo when you blink twice. That’s the idea behind IRIS, a new concept by Mimi Zou.
“I was thinking, ‘What’s the middle ground between …
PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel doesn’t like to invest in normal things. First he backed a libertarian island paradise, then it was paying kids not to go to college, and now it’s 3D-printed meat.
According to CNET, the Thiel …
The Hall of Presidents is about to get a whole lot creepier, at least if Disney’s researchers get their way. That’s because they’re “face cloning” people at a lab in Zurich in order to create the most realistic animatronic …
Ah, remember the days when our AOL accounts told us “You’ve got mail!” and Meg Ryan was in movies sometimes? Well, now you can surf the World Wide Web like it’s the late ’90s with the new You’ve Got Mail extension for Google …
Tired of having to go places? Do you secretly wish you were a robot? Then a telepresence robot might just be the thing for you.
Previously, telepresence robots were fairly expensive and mostly aimed at wealthy tech …
The year was 1992. Color Me Badd was “All 4 Love” and Nirvana won an MTV Video Music Award for “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” It was also the year the network kicked off “Choose or Lose,” its youth voter campaign that ran for nearly …
I’m sure the iPhone 5, or whatever it will be called, is going to be impressive. But you know what other phones are impressive? The iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S.
It looks like both of them are getting discounted as retailers get …
Ready to be creeped out? Then take a gander at Meshworm, the crawling, autonomous robot created by researchers from MIT, Harvard University and Seoul National University.
It moves by peristalsis, the same squeezing and …
Calling Tony Stark! The Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico is the stuff of comic book legend.
The massive X-ray generator is capable of creating what astronomer Don Winget calls “star stuff,” …
You’ve watched plenty of videos of cats, now get ready to watch videos taken by cats. Kitty Cams is a joint project between National Geographic and the University of Georgia aimed at finding out what exactly our cats are doing …
It was a bit surreal to stand in the middle of Times Square and hear a throng of revelers chant “NASA! NASA!” as if the space agency had just won a gold medal in the Olympics. They were cheering the successful landing of …
