Extreme Sand Art
Most visitors to a beach are happy just writing their name in the sand.
But a coastal walk 12 years ago led Jim Denevan to a career in sand art that has seen him sculpt spectacular images on beaches and desert floors.
Among his creations is a 5km (three-mile) long spiral design in the Black […]
A Piraha man participates in an experiment that MIT researchers say indicates his language contains no number words.
Can you imagine a language without any word for “one” or any other numbers? Aren’t numbers so important that life would be nearly impossible if you don’t have words to express them?
Apparently not, as scientists found one such […]
Is your building immune?
Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) are designing a ventilation system that could protect schools, hospitals, and other public buildings from chemical warfare and bioterrorist attacks, thus making the buildings “immune”.
European Union scientists have created a prototype T-shirt that uses small sensors to monitor the activity of individual muscles, and thereby may help people ensure that they do not overstrain their muscles during any activity.
IBM’s India Research Laboratory have developed an intelligent system that can trace and mask the sensitive information in the form of audio signals on it’s own. This means customers can now dial the helplines without being worried about the sensitive data theft they need to speak out to the representatives across the phone lines. The […]
The view inside the cabin of a Zeppelin NT during a flight over southern Germany. The dirigible can carry 12 sightseers.
Imagine gliding in a floating hotel over the Serengeti, gazing down at herds of zebra or elephants; or floating over Paris as the sun sets and lights blink on across the city as you pass […]
Sharp´s 26-inch low-power TV prototype paired with a solar module.
For the 1.6 billion people living in areas without utility-supplied electricity, Sharp has designed a TV that can get 100% of its power from the sun. The company plans to exhibit the 26-inch LCD prototype at the Hokkaido Toyako Summit, or G8 Summit, in Hokkaido, Japan, […]
By shoving objects around on a table, UMan figures out how they work.
To assist humans around the house, robots will need to be able to deal with the unfamiliar. But while researchers can preprogram robots to do increasingly sophisticated tasks, they face a much bigger challenge in teaching them to adapt to unstructured environments. A […]