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Intel researching channel surfing with your brain

Intel researching channel surfing with your brain

Using a remote control to change channels is just such a pain. I mean, what with you needing to push...
 
Battery-free remote, powered by your fingers

Battery-free remote, powered by your fingers

Here's a great way to avoid changing batteries in your remote control: use a remote that doesn't need any batteries...
 
Google Chrome OS revealed, won't be ready for a year

Google Chrome OS revealed, won't be ready for a year

In a tech overview at its Mountain View headquarters, Google announced that its highly anticipated Chrome operating system is a...
 
Nuclear fusion: Coming to a basement near you soon

Nuclear fusion: Coming to a basement near you soon

Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc. debuted their Focus-Fusion-1 dense plasma focus research reactor in mid-October, after nearly 8 years of research...
 
Dude, where's my jetpack? 3 models that are flying now

Dude, where's my jetpack? 3 models that are flying now

Wouldn't it be great if we could all get jetpacks and go flying this weekend? Well, we can. Often thought...
 
Air traffic control may finally get a much needed upgrade

Air traffic control may finally get a much needed upgrade

Our aging air traffic control network doesn't only affect safety, it has an impact on delays, cancellations and efficiency in...
 
F-35B: World's first supersonic jump jet tests its weird capabilities

F-35B: World's first supersonic jump jet tests its weird capabilities

There are plenty of supersonic fighter jets, and there's no shortage of jump jets either, those Harrier planes that can...
 
Could Michael Jackson return as a hologram?

Could Michael Jackson return as a hologram?

Broken yesterday, the story that Michael Jackson had his body scanned back in the '90s presents a number of interesting...
 
Mad scientists blame time travelers for collider failure

Mad scientists blame time travelers for collider failure

It was weird enough that scientists said a bird dropping a piece of bread on an electrical substation managed to...
 
Cadillac Converj electric car is for real, based on Chevy Volt

Cadillac Converj electric car is for real, based on Chevy Volt

It turns out that the Chevy Volt is not the only electric car GM is working on. Using the Volt's...
 
'Road trains' look like a severe pile-up in the making

'Road trains' look like a severe pile-up in the making

You've probably seen a road train before. A couple of tankers are often hitched to a single truck cab, and...
 
Solar collectors in space could finally solve Earth's energy problem

Solar collectors in space could finally solve Earth's energy problem

The Japan Space Agency, along with Mitsubishi Electric Corp. and IHI Corp., are getting even closer to next big thing:...
 
We should let robots take over the world, expert says

We should let robots take over the world, expert says

Dr. J. Storrs Hall is an expert on molecular nanotechnology and the head of the Foresight Nanotech Institute (which raises...
 
No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread

No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread

Here's one for the books. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No catastrophic helium leak or...
 
Ford intros instantly inflatable seat belts

Ford intros instantly inflatable seat belts

Ford's on a roll. First it announces a $1 billion profit for its most recent quarter, and now it announces...
 

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