Technology

IPoint 3D- Your Next Remote Control Device Could Be Your Fingers

Maybe you just want to wait until you can control television with your thoughts or even have it beamed directly into your brain but if you don't mind interim steps, and won't feel vaguely silly with two hands pointed at a screen, the iPoint 3D ma ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 21 2009 - 12:27pm

MyCode Seeks To Be A BioBank For Personalized Medicine

People differ from one another in millions of ways. For starters, there is eye color, hair color, body build, and tendencies toward certain diseases and conditions. We know that genes determine these differences. Now, we also are learning that genes affect ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2009 - 1:48pm

Can Science Blogging Help Clear Up The Patent Application Backlog?

Experts in intellectual property and patents write in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation that tools such as online social networking could be used to eradicate the enormous backlog of patent applic ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 23 2009 - 12:53pm

DNA, Cheerios And Laziness: Self-Assembly And Information Storage

The universe is a lazy place.  If a system of particles can find a way exist in a lower-energy state, you’d better believe that the system will seek it out.  A group of researchers from Amherst and Berkeley are capitalizing on this universal tendency towar ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Feb 25 2009 - 7:40pm

The World's Smallest Periscope Is The Width Of A Human Hair

A team of Vanderbilt scientists have invented what is basically the world's smallest periscope and are using it to look at cells and other micro-organisms from several sides at once. The researchers have officially dubbed these devices "mirrored ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 25 2009 - 2:30pm

Chameleon Guitar Can Be Any Wood You Want

Natural wood, with its unique grain patterns, is what gives traditional acoustic instruments warm and distinctive sounds, while the power of modern electronic processing provides an unlimited degree of control to manipulate the characteristics of an instru ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2009 - 8:58pm

'Personalized Genome' Sequencing Finds Gene Mutation Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

Scientists at the Sol Goldman Pancreatic Cancer Research Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have used "personalized genome" sequencing on an individual with a hereditary form of pancreatic cancer to locate a mutation in a gene calle ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2009 - 3:26pm

Playmancer- Serious Games That Would Make William Gibson Proud

Gamers caught an early glimpse of the future of serious games aimed at the health sector during the PlayMancer project’s demos at the latest Vienna Science Fair.   The European PlayMancer project is working hard to improve the technology for serious game e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2009 - 12:43pm

Babylolly.com- Yes, It's Facebook For Babies

Having a bad 2009?  It's only going to get worse when those printing presses they use to make more money finally break down.   But there is always a bright spot on dark days; babies.   ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 9 2009 - 10:40am

Send your Scientific Blogging cool science T-shirt ideas

We have an outstanding graphic design intern who just started so we're going to have T-shirts made for each category rather than just the generic one with the logo.   If you have ideas for cool science-related and/or funny t-shirts that just need a ca ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 22 2009 - 6:34pm