Garbage Cans Pack Spy Chips By Bill Christensen Wheelie bins all over England are under surveillance tonight.
Instant Grass Roof Possible with Turf Tiles By Bill Christensen TM9 turf mats are now ready for you to buy, making that grass roof you've always wanted a real possibility.
Talking Robot is Surprisingly Anthropomorphic By Bill Christensen WT-6 uses a tongue, lips and vocal cords.
Rising Cyberviolence Mirrors Sci-Fi By Bill Christensen Cyberviolence, a form of vigilante "justice" in which a large group of Internet users post attacks against an individual, are increasing in South Korea.
The Almost-Magical Floating Bed By Bill Christensen A young Dutch architect has created furniture that sci-fi writers have had for years.
Battle Bot: Machine Designed to Extract Wounded Troops By Bill Christensen A new robot is engineered to rescue wounded soldiers without further risk to human life.
Vision Gear Bypasses the Eye By Bill Christensen A headband selectively stimulates receptors in forehead skin to provide visually impaired people a new view.
Bear Hug: New Robot to be Therapeutic Companion By Bill Christensen Teddy bear with onboard PC is designed to interact with patients who need some tender loving care.
Modern M.A.S.H.: Soldiers Could Pack Their Own Freeze-Dried Blood By Bill Christensen Soldiers in the field may carry an emergency blood supply based on their own blood, revolutionizing trauma care on the battlefield.
A New Wave: Scientists Write on Water By Bill Christensen A new technology generates standing waves to form letters in a tank of water.
Totally Fake Recall: Buy Proof of Trips Not Taken By Bill Christensen Persey Tours will sell you all the stuff you would expect to have after your exotic vacation: faked ticket stubs, hotel receipts and even photos to prove you were there.
Yesterday's News Now on DVD By Bill Christensen CustomFlix, a division of Amazon, allows customers to choose from thousands of news clips and news shows dating back more than ten years.
Man Arrested for Doing 56 mph on In-line Skates By Bill Christensen If he had wanted a safer ride at those speeds, he should have used a trusty MagnaPoon.
Live Insects Challenge Humans in Bizarre Computer Game By Bill Christensen In Wim van Eck's project, humans square off against real crickets in a modified version of Pac-Man.
Design Competition Brings Sci-Fi Material to Life By Bill Christensen A new trasformable material has been made into a beanie that turns into a helmet and a suit fit for a superhero. Now it's your turn.
Phone or iPod Run New Pocket-size Projector By Bill Christensen Science fiction Grandmaster Jack Vance would be pleased.
Portable Device Reads Any Text Aloud By Bill Christensen K-NFB is a portable device that scans any available text and reads it back to visually impaired people.
Brain Chip Made With Rat Neurons By Bill Christensen A uniform neural net of brain cells—a brain chip—has been created by a team of scientists lead by Yael Hanein of Tel Aviv University in Israel.
Future Cell Phones Might Literally Reach Out and Touch By Bill Christensen Designer envisions a phone that can detect and emit odors, as well as radiate colors, light and temperature from the caller's environment
It Has Come to This: Computer Orders Restaurant Workers Around By Bill Christensen New computer program takes orders, analyzes the parking lot and the rest of the operation, then tells employees what to do.
Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants By Bill Christensen Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers.
Asimov's First Law: Japan Sets Rules for Robots By Bill Christensen Soft material and emergency shut-offs will be required so future robots don't hurt people. Isaac Asimov suggested as much in 1940.
New Glasses Require Piercing Bridge of Nose By Bill Christensen Extreme solution? Perhaps no more so that getting your eyes lasered. And your glasses won't be slipping down your nose.
