Exploring the science of artificial touch
Japanese researchers say they have developed a rubber that is able to conduct electricity well, paving the way for robots with stretchable “e-skin” that can feel heat and pressure like humans.

  
Space-age technology helps combat an old disease 
Though we may often think of cholera as a disease of the past, virtually eradicated when John Snow famously linked an 1854 outbreak of the epidemic in London to an infected water well on Broad Street, it still poses a threat in almost every single developing country in the [...]

 
 Agent Digital Mobile Workstation
Sitting on my desk for hours on end has helped me earn my bread and butter along with a slouched posture and an aching back. Working in an ergonomic setup is of prime importance, which many of us overlook.

 
 Mini-Windmills
They are small and look more like art than innovation. But the mini-windmills built by a British company could soon be on roofs across Europe and the US — if German energy giant RWE has its way.

 
Google on Tuesday launched its own internet browser, opening up a new challenge in cyberspace to Microsoft and its dominant Internet Explorer.

Your fridge magnets suck
Multiply the magnetic field strength of a refrigerator magnet by 2 million and you’ll be in the ballpark of the strength of the magnet that researchers at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, based near Florida State University in Tallahassee, are trying to create. When completed later this year, the pulsed electromagnet, [...]

 
Besides ensuring your Precrime officer keeps on the straight and narrow, the applications a double-sided touch screen would offer are numerous. Thus it was a special treat to see Japan’s Teraokaseiko debut their double-sided touch display at last week’s Sign & Display Show in Tokyo. The screen interface, a product of Teraokaaseiko’s transparent inorganic EL [...]

Watch closely a see if you can spot the models you owned
Using some great morphing software, this video has an ingenious way of adding perspective to the blurring development cycles in the ever changing cellphone marketplace.  Second video after the jump.