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Robotic office chair is the height of luxury for an executive bum

Thursday, November 6, 2008 - 4:02am

Called the Leopard, Japan's Oki Electric Industry Company and Okamura Corporation have developed a robotic chair that will rise up to meet you as you sit. It's based off of a robotic set of legs the duo developed that...

Tiny creatures brave the vacuum, become first to ever survive open space

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 10:33am

Tardigrades, also known as "water bears," are hardy little creatures ranging from under below 0.1 mm to 1.5 mm. Seemingly against all logic, they can survive temperatures as cold as near absolute zero to over a scorching 300 °F,...

30 stunning images of the Large Hadron Collider

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 - 1:08am

Since the Large Hadron Collider didn't destroy the world this morning, isn't it high time we forgive and forget? And what better way than with a meaty gallery of industrial goodness from all stages of its development, cataloging the...

ScanRobot could digitize 1,187 pages of 'Lord of the Rings' in less than an hour

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, September 9, 2008 - 4:38am

The ScanRobot, by German robotics firm Treventus Mechatronics, is able to scan entire books without any help from a human — not even to turn the page. It cradles books so that they remain open at a 60° angle,...

CES 2008: Segway inventor and Xena rock DVICE's panel about sci-fi's influence on tech

Monday, January 7, 2008 - 1:39pm

Dean Kamen, Lucy Lawless, Walt Mossberg and Neal Stephenson speak at DVICE's panel, "Science Fiction's Influence on Technology", at CES 2008, moderated by SCI FI Channel Executive Vice President and General Manager Dave Howe. Topics include helicopters, jet packs, Robert Heinlein, and the threat of biotechnology.

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Robotic office chair is the height of luxury for an executive bum

Tiny creatures brave the vacuum, become first to ever survive open space

30 stunning images of the Large Hadron Collider

ScanRobot could digitize 1,187 pages of 'Lord of the Rings' in less than an hour

CES 2008: Segway inventor and Xena rock DVICE's panel about sci-fi's influence on tech

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