Technology

Some Brits Ditching Christmas Cards For 'Christmasee' Videos

Showing loved ones that you're thinking of them is still the main focus at Christmas time but are traditional cards becoming outmoded by technology?   Results of a survey published today conducted by Christmas video messaging site Christmasee.com sho ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2008 - 8:49pm

Integrated Blood-Barcode Chip Means Cheap,Fast Blood Tests

A new "barcode chip" developed by researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) promises to revolutionize diagnostic medical testing. In less than 10 minutes, and using just a pinprick's worth of blood, the chip can measure ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2008 - 3:30pm

Vegetable Oil Can Power Your Home

A super-efficient system that has the potential to power, heat and cool homes across the UK is being developed at Newcastle University. It works by burning vegetable oil to power a generator and provide electricity for the home. The waste heat from this p ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 27 2009 - 3:02pm

Will You Be Ghettoized By Robot Culture?

No one really feels left out if they don't have an iPod.  An MP3 player is nice to have but not essential to the human condition.   But Spanish researchers who have carried out a study looking into the potential future impact of robots on society say ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 5 2008 - 9:59pm

Meta Goes Beta, Says JetBrains

JetBrains, creators of intelligent and innovative productivity-enhancing tools for software developers, have announced the Beta version of their new product- Meta Programming System, or MPS. Meta Programming System is a brand new concept of software devel ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2008 - 3:01am

Save Your Money- Flame Retardants On Fresh Cut Christmas Trees Don't Help

The best flame retardant for your Christmas tree is still plain old water.  Worse,  researchers have determined that some flame retardants not only don't work on cut Christmas trees, they actually sped up the drying process and made trees more flammab ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 10:13am

Guitar Hero Of 1875- Weighing Yourself In Public After A Big Meal

Stepping onto a scale after a calorie-filled holiday season isn't an activity many 21st-century Americans relish. But in the late 19th century, scales were all the rage at festive gatherings — the 1800s' answer to Guitar Hero. "A family woul ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2008 - 11:02am

2008's Top 10 Coolest Science Gadgets (So, Gifts For The Holidays You Didn't Even Know Existed)

Today you wake up and realize that Christmas is fast approaching, a little more than a week away, and you haven't done ANY shopping for gifts. Now that you realize that Christmas looming in your very near future, you are tempted to get the usual bath ...

Article - Erin Richards - Dec 16 2008 - 3:47pm

Vendee Globe Yacht Race Gets A Meteorology Boost

CLS, a subsidiary of the French Space Agency (CNES), acting through its new radar applications division (formerly the BOOST Technologies Company), wants you to know they can use Envisat radar imagery to operationally observe oceans at high resolution so th ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2008 - 6:32pm

Nanotechnology 'Smart Yarn' Can Detect Blood

A carbon nanotube-coated "smart yarn" that conducts electricity could be woven into soft fabrics that detect blood and monitor health, engineers at the University of Michigan have demonstrated. "Currently, smart textiles are made primarily o ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 15 2008 - 6:58pm