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Smartphone and gaming tech offers the vision-impaired the promise of better lives, for much less than the cost of a guide dog. By combining imaging, display, and sensing technology honed for smartphones, with games consoles and systems like Microsoft's Kinect, Oxford scientists have designed a set of high-tech glasses that could radically change the life of people suffering from a number of vision-impairing disorders.
Read More »How Marketing May Save London’s Bees
To stop honeybees--some of the planet's most important food pollinators--from continuing to disappear at an alarming rate, London has launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign to raise awareness about the problem. It's hard to say exactly why honeybees the world over are disappearing. Evidence points to viruses , fungi, cell phone use , pesticides, and climate change as potential causes (or parts of a larger cause).
Read More »10th hole not daunting early
Stewart Cink, Luke Donald and Martin Kaymer were among five players to birdie the par-3 10th hole at the U.S.
Read More »Nintendo Wii U Announced, Brings HD Tablet Gaming
The Nintendo Wii U, the latest console from Japanese gaming company Nintendo, was announced in a press event in Los Angeles today. Though a follow-up to their popular and bestselling Wii, the Wii U shows a new strategy for the company: beating PS3 and Xbox 360 at providing the most cutting edge HD graphics--a demo of a bird flying through a landscape provided realism beyond current gaming tech. It will launch Holiday season 2012.
Read More »The New Weather Is Going To Make Food Prices Soar
Climate change will cause the price of staple foods like corn, rice, and wheat to more than double over the next 20 years.
Read More »The Dr. Moreau Of Music
From insects to outer space, Amon Tobin’s new album "ISAM" is all about the buzz.
Read More »From Metal Factory to Innovator
How one man built his family's small manufacturing plant into the go-to metalworking studio for the world's premier architectural projects. Two decades ago, the A
Read More »A Cure for Age-related Macular Degeneration?
Until now, patients who suffer from one of the most common causes of vision loss have had little hope for treatment.
Read More »The Secret Weapons Of Syrian Protesters: Pen Cameras
Protesters have developed a novel way of smuggling information to the outside world: trading in their mobile camera phones for small, discreet pen cameras. While Bashar al-Assad's government in Syria has not been engaging in violence on a Qadaffi-like scale, snipers have reportedly fired on peaceful protesters and civilian casualties were reported in several cities recently.
Read More »"Osama Bin Laden" Gets No Love On Google AdWords
"Osama Bin Laden" was tops in Google search yesterday. But not in search advertising, where not a single seller stepped into the void. Web 2.0 was alive and popping on Monday in the wake of the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed
Read More »Extrasensory Pornception: Doubts About A New Paranormal Claim
Psi, or the paranormal, denotes anomalous psychological effects that are currently unexplained by normal causes.
Read More »Why You Will Want Apple, Google To Track You
The dust-up over Apple and Google's location tracking leaves out an important group of people: those who want to be tracked.
Read More »How Foursquare’s Improved Photo Sharing Does Color One Better
Much-hyped and criticized startup Color is the high-school prom service of photo-sharing apps. Color lets partygoers kick the disposable camera habit--all photos can be shared in real-time, without having to get photos developed or wait for digital pics to be uploaded and tagged on Facebook
Read More »Rethinking the Dream of Human Spaceflight
I still remember the excitement and fear of April 12, 1961, the day Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space. I was seven years old: too young to fully appreciate the thrill many people felt that the mysterious universe beyond Earth had suddenly been conquered and that the adventures of the swashbuckling Flash Gordon were now one step closer to reality
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