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BMW Forecasts Cars Will Be Highly Automated by 2020, Driverless by 2025.
The latest in a slew of press from major automakers, BMW and automotive supplier Continental recently announced a partnership to develop new technology for self-driving cars. The collaboration aims to...
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Where the money is in cleantech: oil and gas
An idea that would have seemed blasphemous five years ago is coming into vogue for the battered cleantech sector: rather than displace the fossil fuel industry, embrace them. Increasingly companies...
View ArticleTerradynamics predicts how robots move on granular surfaces
Using a combination of theory and experiment, Georgia Tech researchers have developed a new approach for understanding and predicting how small legged robots — and potentially also animals — move on...
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Walmart’s Scan & Go App Coming to Android
I think just about everyone can agree that standing at the long checkout lines in Wal-mart can be a bit annoying, most people don’t even like going into Wal-mart to begin with. In August 2012 Walmart...
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Google Glass Eyes Home Automation
Last month, config files found in Android 4.2.2 hinted that the Android@Home initiative for home automation announced in May 2011 may finally be ready to roll. Now it seems that Google is also...
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Does NASA Want $100 Million for Asteroid-Capture Mission?
NASA’s budget request for the 2014 fiscal year may include plans for an ambitious mission to send a robotic probe into deep space, capture an asteroid and haul it back within the reach of astronaut...
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Why Consumers Won’t Need The Power Industry Any More
The head of America’s biggest fossil fuel generator says the sharp falls in technology costs from rooftop solar and other micro generation means consumers will soon go after the option of...
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Phinergy’s Recyclable Aluminum-Air Battery Could Power Electric Vehicles for...
Range anxiety is a much-discussed concern among drivers—and potential drivers—of electric vehicles, and in attempt to thwart it, automakers are trying to install more EV charging stations, offering...
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Biologists Make a Computer From a Living Cell That Can Detect Cancer, | MIT...
If biologists could put computational controls inside living cells, they could program them to sense and report on the presence of cancer, create drugs on site as they’re needed, or dynamically adjust...
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Bullseye from 1,000 yards: Shooting the $17,000 Linux-powered rifle
My photographer, Steve, squints through a computerized scope squatting atop a big hunting rifle. We’re outdoors at a range just north of Austin, Texas, and the wind is blowing like crazy—enough so...
View ArticleSolar panel robot doesn’t need water to clean
Saudi Arabia wants to spend over $100 billion to build vast solar arrays and reduce its dependency on oil to generate electricity. But desert sandstorms pose a major challenge to keeping solar panels...
View ArticleWindenergy convertor EWICON animation, TU Delft
How does a “windmill” without mechanically moving parts work? TU Delft researchers Johan Smit and Dhiradj Djairam developed the EWICON (Electrostatic Windenergy CONvertor), a windenergy convertor that...
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Dark Matter Possibly Found by $2 Billion Space Station Experiment
A massive particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected elusive dark matter at last, scientists announced today (April 3). The detector, the Alpha Magnetic...
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Whole Foods store will grow veggies on its rooftop farm
Whole Foods is using the rooftop of its new Brooklyn, New York store to make the dreams of locavores everywhere come true. It’s building a massive, 20,000-square-foot greenhouse on top of the new...
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New camera system creates high-resolution 3-D images from up to a kilometer away
A standard camera takes flat, 2-D pictures. To get 3-D information, such as the distance to a far-away object, scientists can bounce a laser beam off the object and measure how long it takes the light...
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Better robotics to treat bladder cancer
Although bladder cancer is the sixth most common form of cancer in the US and the most expensive to treat, the basic method that doctors use to treat it hasn’t changed much in more than 70 years. The...
View ArticleBubba’s Hover
Bubba’s Hover – a project by Bubba Watson and Oakley. Golf carts haven’t changed much over the years. They look and feel the same. What if there was a way to improve the traditional golf cart concept...
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Lasers that switch cocaine addiction on and off
Researchers are exploring how laser light can be used on the brain to inhibit addictive behavior — in particular, how you can turn “on and off” cocaine addiction in rats. Scientists at the National...
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LG Optimus G Pro Review: the phone-tablets are here to stay
Phones keep getting bigger, and LG is playing the game like everybody else. Following in the footsteps of competitors like Samsung and HTC, LG announced the Optimus G Pro last month, a...
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CircleUp, An Investment Platform For Non-Techie Consumer Startups, Raises...
CircleUp, a startup that connects investors with retail and consumer companies that wouldn’t attract traditional venture funding, has raised a $7.5 million Series A. The round was led by Union Square...
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