Killer robots could become the weapon of choice for militants, a British expert said on Wednesday. Noel Sharkey (above with robot), professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield said he believed falling costs would soon make robots a realistic option for extremist groups.
Several countries and companies […]

Behold the fluorescent glory of the ECHO PARK TIME TRAVEL MART Marquee. Check it out in person at 1714 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. The Echo Park Time Travel Mart specializes in everything you need for time travel, such as Mammoth Chunks, Barbarian Repellent (warning: doesn’t work for Ostrogoth), and Time-Freezy Hyper Slushy drink among […]

There’s something unusual going on inside a former bank vault hidden beneath a high rise building in Tokyo, Japan: farming! And no, not the illicit kind:
While we’re on the subject of things agricultural and of things covered by just about everyone long before today, there is Pasona O2, a subterranean farm cultivated inside a former […]

Bottom trawling for fish is so destructive to marine environment that its plume can be seen from space!

A color-blind artist who could only recognize black and white shades has learned how to paint with a full palette by “hearing” the hues he cannot see.
Neil Harbisson, 25, has been fitted with a device called an Eyeborg, which converts 360 colors into different sounds.

College students still can’t get enough of Facebook.
According to Youth Trends’ February 2008 “Top Ten List Report,” Facebook was students’ favorite Web site for the seventh straight quarter.
“Among men, CollegeHumor, Break and Digg all experienced gains over the most recent quarter as MySpace missed out making the top ten for the first time in a […]

 
Most Brits remember their first car more readily than their first kiss, according to a new survey.
Getting a set of wheels ranked more highly for young people than their initial embrace, their first boyfriend or girlfriend and their 18th birthday.

A Pew survey of 35,000 Americans shows that more than a quarter of all adults have left the religion they were raised in as a child. The groups showing the most gains are the unaffiliated.

Most people remember the scene in the first Star Wars movie when R2D2 projected a 3-D image of Obi wan into space.  Finally, after more than 30 years, the highly anticipated R2-D2 Video Projector has arrived.

This Softphone concept phone from designer Quian Jiang uses a series of discs that have electronically wired cotton fabric in between. The idea here is that things are soft and flexible. For example, being able to fold up the keyboard would save some space. How about simply squeezing it to initiate or end a […]

A small robotic aircraft powered by rotating “paddle-wheel” wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit.
Several international research groups are working on prototype “cyclogyros”, a design first proposed more than 100 years ago.
A cyclogyro flies using “cycloidal propellers” – several wings positioned around the edge of a rotating […]

When it was announced that a war was coming, Iraq went through a major brain drain as  the best and the brightest chose to leave the country.  They will only return when it’s safe to come home.  As a result, these are the type of people making decisions in their country.
I don’t believe many countries […]