Bill Christensen

Zap away stains with a trusty backpack laser cleaner.

Two ingenious high school kids give their motorcyles better handling.

New digital camera technology hides information from human eyes.

Japan designs robots that can perform taiko drumming.

Engineer patents way to generate power from tornadoes.

A Belgian shepherd named Storm gets carbon fiber prosthetic paw.

A Japanese company has hired a robot to do a traditionally human job.

The military is developing robots to do the dirty work.

The next evolution in paper is interactivity.

A new credit card technology works like an iPod.

Researchers develop drug that blocks biochemical pathways in the mind.

Scientists create a self-healing surface.

Canada is considering banning genetically modified seeds.

Russia bans human tissue exports as fear of biological weapons rise.

A nifty new consumer device that lets you scan your own brain for fun.

An inspector robot has won a best engineering award in Britain.

Displays symptoms and complains, helping med students learn.

Researchers in UK create artificial blood made of plastic cells.

Researchers are working on a gadget to help you get a good night's sleep.

When squeezed under pressure, nano polymer particles in the walls will flow into cracks and harden to form a solid material.

Novel nanogenerator could power small electronic devices by harnessing your footsteps or even your blood flow.

A human-sized weightlifting android successfully picked up a 145 pound humanoid doll from a bed in Tokyo. And the robot itself weighs just 154 pounds.

The tactical biorefinery converts food waste and inorganic trash into electricity and is designed for the U.S. Army.

Swiss researchers created this fish-like airship that uses artificial muscles made from electroactive polymers (EAPs) to propel itself forward.

Humans process the day while they snooze, aiding memory. Perhaps robots could do the same, a researcher suggests.