Friday, April 3, 2009 - 3:45pm
April Fool's Week Day can make any of us seem silly when we speak up. It can also make us skeptical of the good stuff. Take this advancement in fusion power research, for instance. It's real, and it's awesome. See...
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Friday, March 27, 2009 - 4:30pm
This week we saw a whole bunch of great gadgets. My favorite? This crazily fast steam-powered car, but I like anything that looks like it just rolled off the set of Blade Runner. We took a look at what got...
Friday, March 20, 2009 - 4:25pm
Our writers read all of your comments, whether you're giving us a thumbs-up, dropping some new knowledge, oh-so-politely correcting a mistake, or trying to make us cry. We've taken a look at the discussions evolving this week and here's the...
Friday, March 13, 2009 - 3:55pm
Every now and then we like to have a little fun here at DVICE HQ. (And by fun I mean doing awful, awful things.) This time, we decided to leave out a Zune and an iPod side-by-side to see which...
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Friday, March 13, 2009 - 7:51am
In our three part series on the future of robotics, we've been trying to figure out just what it would take to build C-3PO for real. First we asked James Kuffner, a Carnegie Mellon professor who is working to build...
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 4:01pm
In the first part of our expert roundtable, we asked AI whiz and CMU assistant professor James Kuffner what it would take to breathe life into C-3PO. Now we turn to Matt Denton, who runs an animatronic company in the...
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 2:59pm
Science fiction has been teasing us with robots for decades. From Isaac Asimov's tome-like novels filled with law-bound robots to the helpful or menacing 'bots on the big screen, many of us grew up with the idea that a robot-filled...
Friday, March 6, 2009 - 3:00pm
This week we saw some crazy green gadgets. Just check out this composter designed for your apartment, or a dehumidifier that also produces drinking water. There's also this hydrogen fuel cell tractor — HFC technology isn't just for sleek roadsters...
Friday, February 27, 2009 - 3:30pm
Human ingenuity certainly knows no bounds. Just take a look at this crazy costume this fella made — it makes it look like he's got a hole punched straight through him. It's that kind of brilliance that'll mean an end...
Friday, February 20, 2009 - 3:30pm
This week we gave you a lot of options. For instance, would you rather have a touchscreen-less slider with a fully QWERTY keyboard, or a slider with a keypad you can barely see at all? How about a bracelet that...
