A breakthrough microchip has been found to be 93% accurate in diagnosing malignant oral cancer with a simple swipe. All it takes is a simple swab inside the mouth placed on the chip, which is then placed in a machine. In 8 to 10 minutes, you’ve got you…
The word “drone” usually conjures up images of the U.S. military’s Predator, or similar unmanned aircraft. But there are helicopter drones, too, and Boeing’s A160T Hummingbird just got a big upgrade — the ability to see through dense foliage.
It’s a milestone for the medical community, yet you wouldn’t have to be a neurologist to understand it. That’s because this brain-cell-scanning microchip can study human gray matter at unheard of resolutions, yet pretty much does all the science-y work…
All the races for the American Le Mans Series should be on every green gearhead’s calender. After all, it has quickly become the greenest “conventional” racing series in America, and possibly even the world. They’ve done this by introducing new fuels and features into the series that promote innovation and fuel efficiency. In racing. You just don’t see that very often (NASCAR, I’m looking at you).
The latest entry into the ALMS series of alternative fuels was biobutanol, to be run by Dyson Racing. Proving the power of their special blend, Dyson just took their first checkered flag at this weekend’s Mid-Ohio Sport Challenge.
Japan has a love affair with vending machines. You can get anything, from hot coffee to hot noodles to fresh fruit to cigarettes, from the ubiquitous machines. So it’s only natural that they’d jump on the touchscreen vending machine bandwagon first.
It’s really about time: The Droids have been a pretty successful line of Android phones, and finally someone is making the obvious connection to the Star Wars robots that bear the same name. Motorola says an R2-D2 version of the brand-new Droid 2 is co…
Last week, we joined the rest of the news and blog world in worrying about what Verizon and Google’s net neutrality “deal” would mean for the future of the Internet. Now, the two companies iterated a spirit of openness, but it’s too early to sigh in re…
The Nintendo Wii is the only current-generation console that doesn’t pump out HD content. It wasn’t that big a deal at first, but it’s made the console not age particularly gracefully. Which is why rumors of an HD Wii 2 coming out in 2011 make a certai…
This might be the most serious phone case I’ve ever seen. Made of stainless steel and looking like some sort of strange torture device, it’s certainly a different look than Apple’s Bumpers.
We (the royal we) have been asking car companies for electric vehicles and alternatives to gasoline for decades, though rarely in resounding force. Finally though, the message has gotten through. A lot more goes into a car than gas though; the production process is labor and material intensive, and many of the plastics and other materials use large quantities of hazardous chemicals. That said, cars have a high recycling rate, and many are made from the same metal and other materials that has been in use for decades now.
Which is why a press release from Ford touting the new 2011 Explorer’s high recyclable rate. Sure an 85% recyclable rate is impressive, but the industry-wide average is already 80%. So I ask you; will we ever see 100% recyclable cars?
Ford’s EcoBoost series of engines are my cup of turbocharged tea. Powerful, fuel efficient (at least in comparison to bigger engines with similar horsepower) and with a torque curve flatter than the Bonneville Salt Flats, it is everything an eco-concious gear head like me could want. And I’m not the only one. Gearheads are finding that the EcoBoost engine, including the 3.5 liter V6, has tremendous power potential beyond what Ford has limited themselves to.
Roush Yates, a famous name from the world of racing engines, are teaming up on an EcoBoost V6 for the 2011 American Le Mans Series. This will give a chance for the EcoBoost to really flex its turbocharged muscles.
By now even schoolchildren know that the plastics we discard every year in the millions of tons persist in the environment for hundreds of years. And we have all heard of the horrors caused by such debris in the sea: fur seals entangled by nylon nets, …
JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater was just doing his job, moving to ask a passenger to sit back down after prematurely rising to pull a carry-on from the overhead compartment. After a rude response, Slater had had enough — he went for the em…
We’ve seen the amazing augmented reality icing now possible with edible cookies, but one Japanese tinkerer has come up with a way to add an actual sense of flavor to the digitally enhanced cookies.
Getting the maximum possible use from a minimum amount of space is the key to living in Tokyo, so this tiny house uses an ingenious stacked box construction that creates its own storage space.
FM radio and cellular phones are fostering a rising awareness of climate impacts and mitigation in some of the globe’s remotest and most undeveloped regions. [More]
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A Hong-Kong based adult film company has started shooting what they claim is the first 3D hard-core porn flick. The title, 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy sounds like a real mouthful, but the producers point out that it’s based on a classic Chinese ero…
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