Mar 21 2011

High Gas Prices May Turn Suburbs Into Slums

Tag: Cars,Driving,Gas Mileage,Public Transportation,The Future,Vehicles — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 6:38 pm
The provocative conclusion of an Australian study suggests that the 'burbs are doomed.

Mar 03 2011

Eye-Controlled Laptop and ‘Telepresence’ Robot Debut

Tag: Business,Car Safety,Environment,Eye,Internet,Laptops,Meetings,Music,Robots,Saving Energy,Technology,The Future,Walking — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:56 pm
The future is here at CeBIT, the world’s top tech fair in Hanover, Germany.

Nov 05 2010

Commercial Space Travel Rules of the Road

Tag: Air Travel,Astronauts,Aviation,Cars,Dragons,Earth,Father,Ferry,Government,Mining,NASA,Police,Radar,Sight,Space Exploration,Space Station,Space Travel,Spacecraft,Spaceflight,Technology,The Future,Transportation,Vehicles — Irene Klotz @ 11:00 am
The FAA is beginning to look past domestic skies, planning ahead for what may be coming down the space highway over the next few years.

Oct 17 2010

Expansive Hoover Dam Bridge Opens

Tag: Building,Driving,Engineering,Rivers,The Future,Vehicles — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 3:45 pm
The 1,900-foot-long structure is the seventh highest bridge in the world.

Sep 29 2010

Morphing, Stretchable Phones Are Being Tested

Tag: Clothing,Devices,Environment,Movies,Nose and Throat,Phones,Science Fiction,Skin,Technology,The Future,Touch — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 8:49 am
Nokia is working on thin, flexible phones that conform to any shape.

Sep 22 2010

Future Advertising Has Its Eye On You

Tag: Advertising,Drinks,Electronics,Laboratories,Sight,Technology,The Future — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 1:07 pm
Advertisments equipped with cameras and face recognition software could usher in pitches personalized to the viewer.

Sep 13 2010

Artificial Skin Offers Robots, Amputees Sense of Touch

Tag: Biotech,Child,Computers,Electronics,Humans,Materials,Movies,Nature,Robotics,Robots,Scientists,Senses,Sensors,Sight,Skin,Smell,Taste,The Future,Touch,Wine,Women — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 4:08 pm
Biotech wizards have engineered electronic skin that can sense touch, in a major step towards next-generation robotics and prosthetic limbs.

Aug 23 2010

Beyond the Black Box

Tag: Air Travel,Aircraft,Artifacts,Atlantic Ocean,Aviation,Batteries,Birds,Child,Colleges,Communication,Computers,Design,Devices,Disasters and Accidents,Electronics,Engaged,Engineering,Engines,Events,Experts,Eye,Fall,Father,Fear,Glass,Government,Health Insurance,History,Internet,Inventions,Investigation,Lawsuits,Logging,Mining,Movies,Murder,Navy,Oceania and Australia,Office,Officer,Polar Regions,Privacy,Radio,Safety,Satellites,Science,Seas,Sensors,Storage,Streams,Submarine,Suicide,Technology,The Future,Touch,Transportation — Discovery News - Top Stories @ 7:00 am
Instead of storing flight data on board, aircraft could easily send the information in real time to the ground.

Aug 16 2010

Software Predicts Criminal Behavior

Tag: Crime,Murder,Murderers,Officer,Parole,Probation,Robbery,The Future — Eric Bland @ 12:13 pm
The new software is helping police officials identify which people on parole are most likely to murder.

Aug 12 2010

Move Over Hydrogen, Make Way for Magnesium Power

Tag: Alternative Power Sources,Chemistry,Electricity,Engineering,Fuel Cells,Hydrogen,The Future — Gene Charleton @ 12:12 pm
Magnesium stores about 10 times as much energy as hydrogen.
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