A British firm has developed a camera that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people’s clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for security industry.
The T5000 camera, created by a company called ThruVision, uses what it calls “passive imaging technology” to identify objects by the natural […]

Chassis is a remote control/potentially autonomous drink delivering machine. He’s outfitted with all sort of things that go “whir” and “blink” and is equipped with a nice pressurized pony keg system for beer or wine or kool-aid or what have you.
 

Flatworld is a very creative piece of animation.  This is an ingenious five minute clip.
 

User-generated content is having an even stronger impact on Chinese purchasing behavior than it has on US buyers, according to a November 2007 Netpop report.
Nearly one-half of all Chinese broadband users have posted a comment to a blog, forum or chatroom, compared with only 28% of US broadband users.

Ok, so IPTV isn’t exactly television delivered over the Web. It is usually delivered over a closed network and not the public Internet, and connected to a standard TV set, not a PC.
Still, it’s television content sent through broadband, and its popularity is rising as Internet connections get ever-faster. AT&T and Verizon are offering IPTV […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62E-_pQt3c

When patterning a robot after an animal, why not pick dogs or cats? These things are a bit creepy.

If virtual racing gives you the adrenaline rush, then you should be looking at race simulators that enrich you with the ultimate thrill of virtual racing. The Gamers Cockpit GT3 race simulator comes with frame, sound, vision and gaming and endash to give you a real driving experience.

A lick of solar-power paint could see the roofs and walls of warehouses and other buildings generate electricity from the sun, if research by UK researchers pays off.

The scientists are developing a way to paint solar cells onto the steel sheets commonly used to clad large buildings. Steel sheets […]

To many, he was the consummate hero, but to his owners
he was just an incredibly weird dog.
Join us on this week’s journey into strange, quirky, and incredible photo imagery.

Beverages major PepsiCo, led by India-born Indra Nooyi, has been placed higher than its arch rival Coca-Cola on a list of 20 most-admired global companies prepared by Fortune Magazine.
The list, published in the latest issue of Fortune, ranks PepsiCo at 13th position as against Coca-Cola at 19th spot.

Obesity in the United States is in part an economic issue, according to a review paper on the relationship between poverty and obesity published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
 

Forbes released its report today on the world’s billionaires, see the top 25 (after the jump). Note that Indians represent three of the six richest people on the planet, and four of the eight richest people, compared to only two Americans. Of the top 25 richest people in the world, Russia has almost twice as […]