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Wear Your ‘Nerdiness’ On Your Belt

Now, you don’t have to drop your trousers to a select few to show how much of a nerd you are. Thanks to these geeky belt buckles, you can inform the whole world of what you really are without risking being ... Continued
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Keeping Those Negative Waves At Bay

Can the electromagnetic waves generated by wireless networks be harmful to certain people’s health? A woman from London, UK, seems to think so. Encouraged by dubious pseudo-scientific websites such as elect... Continued
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Tomorrow’s Car Will Be Flying

Blade Runner was mentioned on this site earlier – albeit for a different reason – but do you remember those flying vehicles in the movie? Thanks to Gress Aerospace, those futuristic cars should soon become ... Continued
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The Ethical Future Of Robotics

First Law: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second Law: A robot must obey orders given it by human beings, except where such orders would... Continued
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When Fungi Stood 20 Feet Tall

For those who saw the 1959 movie Voyage To The Center Of The Earth, with the scene where the protagonists take a walk in a forest of 7-foot tall mushrooms, this will not come as a big surprise. However, sci... Continued
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Sniffing Out Diseases

Dogs can sniff someone’s “olfactive signature” and somehow smell that you’re coming home even before you’ve entered the door. They can also determine when you’re ill and know how to “treat their human” in s... Continued
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Thursday Article and Review Round Up

CPU Hot Hardware -  8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8" Sneak Peek - Dual Quads TweakTown - The gradual demise of AMD – What happened and what to do next? Motherboards Motherboards.org - XFX 680i LT SLI Motherboar... Continued
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Feeling A Bit Iffy? Just Blog It!

Got a headache? A runny nose, maybe? Here’s exactly what you need! A new website called quite naturally Who Is Sick? allows you to share your little discomforts with your neighborhood – and even the rest of... Continued
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It Started With A Kiss…

We’d already heard that Israel was home of some very passionate people, and this tends to confirm it. The passion that this woman felt for her boyfriend literally left him speechless! An Israeli woman acci... Continued
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The Borg Are Coming!

After inventing a two-legged robot that can substitute for impaired legs, Japanese robotics now give us the opportunity to replace our whole body thanks to this new exoskeleton from Tsukuba University. In a... Continued