Technology

Video Games Help Teens With Cerebral Palsy Regain Hand Function

Indiana and Rutgers researchers have modified Playstation 3 video game systems to help teenagers with cerebral palsy improve their hand functions. In a pilot trial with three participants, the system improved the teens' abilities to perform a range of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 17 2010 - 1:53pm

Zimmer on Science News Consumption

Earlier this week Zimmer asked readers to help out science journalists and participate in a survey about where we get our science news. He's got the results up. You can go see for yourself what online science readers say about where they get their new ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Mar 18 2010 - 8:59pm

User-interface follies

In days of old, when knights were bold, and they kept their data on large reels of magnetic tape, the tapes were stored in a central tape library, and were mounted by request on mainframe computers. Each tape in the library was given a volume serial. One ...

Blog Post - Barry Leiba - Mar 22 2010 - 7:00am

Water Desalination Via Ion Concentration Polarization

A new approach to water desalination called ion concentration polarization may lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and deliver enough fresh water to supply the needs of a family or small village. As ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2010 - 2:02pm

Elizabeth Taylor Polythene?

I have an issue with the ladies of Hollywood. As a scientist, I find diamond a most useful material, and the way these glitterate use these stones for personal adornment does, I think, only serve to grossly inflate their price.    Diamond is famous for tw ...

Article - Robert H Olley - Mar 23 2010 - 7:12pm

Consumers Know It's Spam But Click On It Anyway

Consumers continue to click on spam despite awareness of how bots and viruses spread through risky email behavior, according to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Their findings were based on a survey it released today covering North America a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2010 - 11:51pm

WikiLeaks: The Price of Freedom of Information

"Wikileaks.org was founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians, and technologists from the United States, China, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and South Africa. Its Web site became operational in early 2007. The advisory board for Wikileak ...

Blog Post - Richard Mankiewicz - Mar 24 2010 - 11:23pm

Where 2.0 2010- For all people involved in Location-Aware Technologies and Intelligent Transport Systems

Where 2.0 Conference at San Jose Marriott, San Jose, California Tuesday, March 30- Thursday, April 1  by O'Reilly Media, Inc The first Web 2.0 innovations helped us make new connections on a global scale. The rise of location-aware tools, linked with ...

Blog Post - Henry Cox - Mar 25 2010 - 7:42pm

Play Pong With Your Eyes- Researchers Introduce Hands Free Gaming Technology

University students have developed a computer game that is operated by eye movements, which could allow people with severe physical disabilities to become 'gamers' for the first time. The technology behind the game may one day be adapted to creat ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 26 2010 - 11:46am

Twitter Shortens Tweet Length to 20 Characters

Already well-known for its short character length limits, in a press conference scheduled for later today, Twitter will announce that it will severely shorten its allowable “tweets”. “I’m frankly amazed at all the crap people fit into their tweets,” said J ...

Blog Post - Mark Changizi - Apr 1 2010 - 10:30am