Updated May 14
Six-year-old Ivan Stoiljkovic of Croatia is a curious kid. Supremely talented, his father says that at 8 months he started walking; at 15 months, he was up and roller blading. Then at 2 years old he revved up and drove around on a mini motorcycle.
Oh yeah — and he may have magnetic powers.
Watch the video posted …
Wondering why the FBI doesn’t name phone and internet service providers that help them in surveillance programs? They’re trying to protect those companies from the wrath of the snooped-upon customers.
The explanation comes from an FBI section chief named David M. Hardy, as part of a court declaration recently made public following a …
Did you know Japan had singing computers? I sure didn’t, at least until I stumbled on a report from this morning indicating that they not only did have machines that’d outperform half of American Idol’s starry-eyed hopefuls, but that a team of scientists from Tokyo have improved the program’s artificial algorithms to make the machines …
You know what’s sick and disgusting? As much as I’m a little nauseous about the ZOMG KATE BIN LADEN-MIDDLETON fiasco on my Facebook Newsfeed, this story over status updates makes me want to seriously hurl into the nearest bin.
Ramazan Acar, a 24-year-old father in Melbourne, Australia, announced to Facebook and the rest of the …
Being a super genius sure is hard. You have all these great theorems about how gravity works and whatnot without the proper means to prove if they’re viable or bunk. In Einstein’s case, it wasn’t until recently — 56 years after his death — that technology finally caught up to the inner machinations of his astounding …
Back in the day, whoever had the biggest, most awe-inspiring Super Soaker was automatically crowned King of the Block. One of those summers, I was lucky enough to wield said proverbial conch in the form of a high-powered water rifle that I used to blast other kids in the face.
Needless to say, 2010 was a really good year for …
The Poincare conjecture was a seemingly unsolvable theorem that was first proposed in 1904. Dealing with a branch of spatial mathematics called topology, the theorem sought to prove that any shape without a hole can be formed into a sphere. Sounds simple enough, right? Tell that to the math world, which, for over a century, struggled to …
An aerospace company in Germany called DLR has modified their flagship humanoid robot (dubbed Rollin’ Justin) to catch baseballs.
Not impressed? Watch the video above. Rollin’ Justin moves his digits independently, using his sensors to coordinate with 80 percent accuracy where and when a ball will land in his ice-cold metal …
North Korea has a new problem on its hands besides poverty and reported bouts of famine – Kim Jong Il’s new enemy is cellphones.
Wired reports that North Korea now sports 450,000 users on its cell phone network. While those numbers may not seem like much to the rest of the world, it is a 50 percent increase from last year. It’s …
America is great for an endless number of reasons. But the freedom to spend outlandish amounts of money on nerd-ish pursuits that hold no greater meaning other than they’d be ridiculously, freakishly awesome? Our founding fathers smile down.
Which is why we have to get behind this project to build a life-sized, fully operational AT-AT …
File this under: Things I wish existed when I was struggling for a C- in statistics. A team of researchers at University of Oxford and University College London may have found a way to unnaturally boost your arithmetic skills by hooking your brain up to – get this – electrodes.
From a study that appeared in the November 23 issue …
Just to offset today’s item about Facebook engaging in slightly creepy behavior, we’ll toss some kudos their way for having possibly reinvented the conference name tag.
You know the ones: those dangly, laminated, lanyard-strung tags looped around the overstressed necks of every conference- or convention-goer in modern history. …
