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Real-Life Hurt Locker Bomb Suit
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 10:25am EST
I saw the movie, Hurt Locker, and wondered how that bomb suit could protect someone from death. Dvice has a great piece up that explains just that. The so-called explosive ordinance disposal suit has two layers, one rigid, one soft ... -
Electronic Shirt Analyzes Pitchers Throw
Posted: March 10th, 2010, 9:58am EST
Just in time for Spring training. This electronic shirt analyzes a baseball pitcher's throw. That could keep the athletes in good form and reduce injuries, which cost the MLB organization $54 million a year in salary losses. The shirt was ... -
Recycled Plastic Gets Fairy Godmother
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 4:45pm EST
A research team from IBM and Stanford announced that they have developed a new, inexpensive method for plastic recycling that could eliminate downcycling, resulting in higher quality products. One of the major problems with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, frequently used ... -
Malicious Software Turns Your Cell Phone Against You
Posted: March 9th, 2010, 7:00am EST
Smart phone malware could tap into your phone's microphone, GPS and even your battery. -
Mini Helicopters Create Flying Display
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 10:26am EST
This has got to be one of the coolest ideas I've seen in a while: Miniature helicopters with LED lights flying in a pattern that creates a display in the air. Think of each helicopter acting as a pixel on ... -
How to Reboot Your Corpse
Posted: March 8th, 2010, 8:46am EST
Thousands of bodies are already cryonically frozen, waiting for faster computers and medical advances that will undo their cause of death. -
Squeezing Solar Power From Nanowires
Posted: March 6th, 2010, 1:35pm EST
Efficient silicon photovoltaics hold so much potential but scaling them up would involve outlandish costs. Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developed a new approach that could pare down the price. Usually solar cells are made from ultrapure single ... -
Tech: Earthquake Shake Table Rocks Buildings
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 7:11pm EST
Building designs are put to the test on the University of California-San Diego shake table, where engineers recreate destructive earthquakes to help make our structures safer and survivable. Jorge Ribas reports. -
Chatting With Strangers
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 3:28pm EST
I'm not a big fan of anonymity on the Web. I recognize its importance, particularly for people who live in countries with governments that monitor Internet activity. But with anonymity comes a certain lack of accountability that I find distasteful. ... -
Flashback: Images From the Weeks News
Posted: March 5th, 2010, 12:00pm EST
Take a closer look at this week's top stories in the Discovery News Flashback Slide Show.