- Nano neural nets for virtual reality
- Watching the watchers
- Human echolocation
- Using DNA as nano building blocks
- Listening biometrics
End of the Week, End of the World 04-10-09
How does death by death star sound? No, not the Star Wars kind -- the kind of star that dies, explodes in a supernova, and sends a wave of killer gamma-ray radiation across the nearby stellar neighborhood, wiping out life.
ObEP: A group of gatecrashers on a crucial mission suddenly find out that their exoplanet is about to be bombarded by a gamma ray burst from a nearby dying star. They have scant time to finish their mission and escape back through the Pandora gate ...
Five for the Future 04-10-09
- Skylon air-breathing jets could make getting into orbit easier
- Alien genetics may be just like ours
- Virus batteries
- Space elevators vs. sky hooks
- A-Pod insectabots
Five for the Future 04-02-09
- Robot body language
- BO biometrics and lie detection
- Wolphram Alpha will compute answers to factual questions
- Reading brainwaves to detect blunders
- Building a robotic octopus
Five for the Future 03-20-09
- EMP grenades
- Instant immunity to pathogens
- The sustainability solution to the Fermi Paradox?
- Robot muscles built from carbon nanotube aerogel
- DNA cryptography