Mars One has selected 50 men and 50 women finalists from which it will choose the first astronauts it will fly on a one-way trip to Mars. These candidates were chosen out of a pool of 202,586 applicants. The finalists hail from several parts of the Earth: [...]
The James B. Hunt Library in North Carolina State University is probably the most technologically advanced library on the planet. The $115 million state of the art building spans 221,000 square feet. It is longer and wider than a football field stretching [...]
A 19 year old recent high school graduate who built a $350 robotic arm controlled with thoughts is showing any one how to build it free. His goal is to let anybody who is missing an arm use the robotic arm at a vastly cheaper cost than a prosthetic limb [...]
You’re in a life-or-death situation inside a burning building, where the situation is so out of control that human firefighters wouldn’t be able to reach you. Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, comes the flying Gimball to rescue you. It’s a globe with a [...]
His name is Spot, he weighs around 160 lbs and he’s good indoors and out. But this dog didn’t come from the pound or the pet store. Spot is a robot, and he was created by Boston Dynamics, which is now a subsidiary of Google’s. Boston Dynamics develops [...]
A teenager from Pittsburgh shot a 16-year old classmate in the face and took a selfie with the dead body, the Pittsburgh Tribune Review reported. The selfie is being used as evidence to charge him with the murder, according to court documents. Maxwell [...]
