Friday, April 16, 2010 - 9:55am
Americans are no doubt used to having a bottle of shampoo or sharp grooming tools confiscated at the airport, but what if you had your $500+ iPad taken away from you with a dubious promise to get it back later?...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - 4:15am
The world of smartphones just got a little more interesting, kiddos. Latest model on the block goes by the name of First Else and is abso-spazzo-lutely aimed at toppling what parent company (once upon a time called Emblaze, now renamed...
Monday, August 31, 2009 - 2:14pm
Scientists in Israel are working on a breathalyzer they believe is able to detect lung cancer as easily as your garden variety intoxication detector (pictured above). Similar tests are in the works but require a pretreatment of the breath, which...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 1:28pm
From the Ben Gurion University's robotics lab in Israel comes the SpiderBot, which gets around in much the same way as the Man. The robot's webs are actually tethered plungers that it can pull away from a surface, reel back...
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 3:01am
So just where the melon-farming farm is Samuel L. Jackson when you need him? Joining Big Dog in the menagerie of weird weapons comes robosnake, a nifty little robot that does battlefield surveillance and reconnaissance. The two-foot-long critter, which reminds...
Thursday, February 12, 2009 - 1:37pm
The Med-Evacuation Aerial Vehicle, also known as the "flying stretcher," is a product of Israel, and is designed to aid the nation's military in quickly recovering soldiers and ferrying them out of harm's way. Its enclosed fan allows for a...
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 - 12:58pm
Talk about the separation of science and religion. A group of Israeli scientists printed the entire text of the Hebrew Bible on to an area smaller than half a grain of sugar, no doubt enraging anti-science religious zealots and...
