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Physics- Why Animated Movies Are Better Than Ever

Only nostalgia zealots can argue we are not in a Golden Age for animated movies. 2010 gave us classics like "Megamind", "Toy Story 3" and the one movie to rule them all, "Tangled." These awesome animated family movies are just ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2014 - 10:55pm

More Annoying Than 3-D: Smells From Your Television

Does 3-D television seem like a waste of time to you?   Perhaps you will like Smell-O-Vision more. Or not.  Even if you like neither of those things, they are waypoints on the path to immersive, interactive environments.  So buy this stuff today and some d ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2011 - 11:53am

Ugly Hackers Stick It To BeautifulPeople.com

BeautifulPeople.com, a dating and networking community which claims to be exclusively for good-looking people,  apparently has programming and security that was done by beautiful people rather than smart ones.   30,000 ugly people recently invaded the sit ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2011 - 12:41pm

Do Any Science Publishers Care About Scientists?

When is a multi-million dollar business that charges money before a science article can be seen by the public superior to another multi-million dollar business that charges money before a science article can be seen by the public?  Apparently only if they ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Jun 20 2011 - 7:08pm

15 Years Before "Star Wars", Take A Look At The Pedipulator The Army Tested

Long before "Star Wars", science-fiction had talked of robot walkers.  In "War of the Worlds", even aliens from Mars had giant, mechanized tripeds and they got killed by a few germs.   But the real world worked on them also.   Now on di ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2011 - 6:04pm

Paper Circuits Almost Here

Univ. of Illinois announced a silver pen for writing conductive cursive.  Researcher Jennifer Lewis notes “Pen-based printing allows one to construct electronic devices ‘on-the-fly,’".  I think, imagine just tracing a circuit schematic instead of havi ...

Article - Project Calliope - Jul 5 2011 - 4:04pm

JediBot- Clone Wars Coming To A Computer Lab Near You

Students are often driven by baser concerns and robotics students even more so- hungry all of the time?  Invent a robot that can cook.   Need to take over the Republic?   Build some robots that, oddly, use colored swords.    The Experimental Robotics cours ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2011 - 5:34pm

Google+ + Google Docs Shout Out

Short post about this URL, a Google Doc spread sheet. Not sure if Google+ will take off and stay off the ground. I used Google Wave which disappeared into the sea. If you are a  Science blogger     Trying out Google+     then you might as well add your nam ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jul 15 2011 - 12:26am

Cephalobotics

The Economist has published a highly amusing (at least to me) and informative article about "the new robotics," inspired by the diversity of natural forms: ...

Blog Post - Danna Staaf - Jul 17 2011 - 6:23pm

Thinking Worlds 3D- $4,999 Games Creation Software Is Now Free

Caspian Learning says that the latest version of their Thinking Worlds 3D simulation&games creation technology will be completely free to use. The new version of the software will remove practically all of the barriers to simulation and game design th ...

Article - Newswire - Jul 18 2011 - 10:22am