Simple breath tests taken during routine visits to doctors or dentists could one day provide early warning of a whole range of potentially devastating conditions from schizophrenia to diabetes.
In fact, the foundation’s mission is to improve the quality of life of people with neuro-developmental disorders and associated conditions by conducting research into safer, more [...]

According to an article in the current issue of The New Republic, some pro-life activists are practically salivating over the prospect of artificial wombs. Why? Because they believe that ectogenesis would be a knockout punch in the abortion debate.
“If we had the technology to be able to placentize or incubate in a placental environment, [...]

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Bill H. Clark II, MSE, PE
University of Texas
Austin, Texas
A computer simulation of the Earth to Mars trajectory was developed that generates a faster, more efficient mission profile than any Mars mission to date. My “Theory of F and G Functions” was developed to establish a theoretical basis for this super-fast trajectory. The Theory [...]

Bringing Virtual Characters to Life for Film, Television and Games
This popular advanced intensive seminar for animators and game producers will be taught by virtual character development specialist Jeffrey Hinze on September 19 and 20, 2003.
The workshop is platform independent (Maya, Softimage XSI, 3D Max, Lightwave etc.)
The number of participants is limited.

EBay Inc., the online auctioneer, wants to see if its popularity can translate to a bigger medium than the Internet: television.
Sony Pictures Television last week taped a pilot for an EBay television show — with sports personality Ahmad Rashad and former “Daily Show” contributor Molly Pesce — that, if all goes well, could hit [...]

A military reconnaissance robot being developed at a British lab can keep moving even if it gets damaged on the battlefield. When any of the snake-like robot’s “muscle” segments are damaged, clever software “evolves” a different way for it to wriggle across any terrain.
The serpentine spy is a research project funded by aerospace company BAE [...]

By end-2005, mobile operators will derive more revenue from content than third-party service providers, according to Ovum Research, with a 61 per cent share of global revenue, or a total of USD 22.3 billion. Conversely, non-operators will earn just USD 15.5 million from mobile content at end-2005, as opposed to USD 4 billion in 2002, [...]

A handful of technology and consumer privacy experts testifying at a California Senate hearing Monday called for regulation of a controversial technology designed to wirelessly monitor everything from clothing to currency.
The hearing, presided over by state Sen. Debra Bowen, focused on an emerging area of technology that’s known as radio frequency identification (RFID). Retailers [...]

For almost two decades, Chinese citizens have been defined, judged and, in some cases, constrained by their all-purpose national identification card, a laminated document the size of a driver’s license.
But starting next year, they will face something new and breathtaking in scale: an electronic card that will store that vital information for all 960 million [...]

When cell phone customers can keep their numbers after changing carriers, expect a herd of users to switch providers.
But the loudest roar is likely to come from business users with corporate accounts.
The new rules allowing for number portability will lead to fat discounts and shifting control of cell phones used for business, industry insiders predict.