They said it, they did it — when Motorola officially unveiled the Droid 2 earlier this week, an R2-D2 version of the phone was promised, and here it is. The phone was on display at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando.
A fellow named Peter Craig has secured the record for having the world’s longest and active email address at 345 characters. Good on him, too — it’s not just the gibberish it could have been.
Robonaut 2, which will be the world’s first robotic astronaut to work alongside its human counterparts up in orbit, is getting ready for its historic journey over at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Just how does a 330-pound robot prepare, you w…
Editor’s Note: Students from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. The student-led group , known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP…
Randy Sarafan is on a quest to save America’s fingers. Well, at least the finger we use to change the channel.
This is the AK-1000, which, when it’s deployed this summer in Scotland, should be the world’s largest tidal turbine. It just so happens that it’ll also be the world’s most powerful, able to power 1,000 homes as it harnesses the power of Scotland’s chop…
The Multi Mill is Dutch-based NL Architects’s attempt to combine a theater and cinema space with a waterfront lounge area. This isn’t just any theater though — this one spins round and round as you watch. Perhaps most cool of all is that it may r…
Imagine a modular solar array that you can install –without too much fear of electrocuting yourself–at a relatively low price. That’s the vision of Chad Maglaque and Clarian Technologies , and one that hopes to become a reality by spring 2011. [M…
Sharks have remained relatively unchanged by evolution for 400 million years, but shark science has evolved significantly in just the past few decades. In 1987 when Discovery Channel’s now-famous Shark Week series debuted, researchers had few means…
Asus turned the laptop world on its head with its cheap, functional Eee PC. The company hopes to do the same with tablets, and confirmed that it has two flavors of its upcoming Eee Pad, a meatier tablet, and even an e-reader on the way.
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Cristina Eisenberg’s book The Wolf’s Tooth .A doe burst out of the forest and tore across the meadow, two wolves in close pursuit. This drama unfolded not twenty feet from where my young da…
Planning for Earth Peter H. Gleick’s “ Freshwater Use ” [Solutions to Environmental Threats] neglected to mention one obvious water-conservation measure: meter all freshwater and charge for it. Why should some–most notably agribusi…
With a design reminiscent of the works of the great Leonardo da Vinci, the Smoking Machine, which smokes cigarettes for you, could be the best “quit smoking” mechanism ever made.
We’ve seen plenty of shower heads that bathe you with soothing LED light, serenade you with soft music, and of course provide plenty of warm water, but I’m pretty sure this is the first one that delivers all three.
Most big public works projects get opposed by the people living near them. So one group of designers wants to fight NIMBY (not in my back yard) opposition by turning giant electricity pylons into huge human sculptures.
Conventional semiconductor memory encodes data (1s and 0s) by whether or not an electron is present. But an electron itself has a binary property — whether or not its spin is “up” or “down.” Researchers have now discovered a way to encode data wi…
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