US Navy Developing Variable-Strength Bomb
The U.S. Navy is seeking proposals for a “variable explosive bomb,” or VEB, that would allow pilots to vary...
Author: Thomas Roche
The Ultimate Phonecam: Aydogan Ozcan’s $10 Cellphone Microscope
Back in November, the New York Times covered the invention by UCLA electrical engineer Aydogan Ozcan of a $10...
Nanowire E-Skin to Help Robots Feel
Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed a nanowire material that may provide a sense of touch for robots. Unlike...
Senior British Army Officer to Tweet from the Front Line
The Telegraph reports that a British Army Lieutenant Colonel will use Twitter from the front line in Afghanistan. Lieutenant...
You Don’t Get 500 Million Friends, Apparently, Without Chewing a Lot of Scenery
Every once in a while over the last year and a half or so, I’ve thought to myself: “Oh,...
California Schools Testing Algebra eTextbooks on the iPad
The Fresno Bee and Washington policy-wonk blog The Hill report on the move by California schools to test iPad...
San Bruno Gas Explosion Viral Media Roundup
Having arrived about 20 minutes early to pick someone up at San Francisco Airport yesterday, I figured I’d pull...
Google Instant: You’re Searching NOW.
Look, it’s not like I have a problem with Google. I keep hating on the galaxy-sized faceless soulless vat-grown...
September Techyum—>Banksy Mash Note Part 2: Oil Spill Children’s Ride
A brief post on Greenmuze.com directs me to this Banksy installation in Brighton, about 90 minutes south of London:...
America’s Next Teen-Mental-Health Panic? Self-Embedding!
CNN has a fairly level-headed post by Elizabeth Landau on something called self-embedding behavior, in which “teens” shove things...