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Startup want to create”the world’s first augmented television”

Feb 17, 2014

A new venture in television created by a San Francisco-based startup combines web content with television programming in a way...

Nike designer says we can expect self-tying shoes in 2015

Feb 16, 2014

The fictional Nike Air Mag sneakers from Back to the Future Part II became a reality in 2011, when Nike auctioned off...

Google gives you front row seats to marriage proposals with Google Glass

Feb 16, 2014

First, there’s “Marry Me,” the latest in the company’s Google Glass Explorer Story YouTube series, a short user-generated film shot through...

Ancient footprints saved despite being washed away thanks to 3D mapping

Feb 7, 2014

Archaeologists have discovered some of the oldest human footprints in the world during a dig on a beach on the Norfolk...

TouchBase wants to reinvent the business card with smartphones

Feb 5, 2014

Is it really the year 2014 and we are still handing each other rectangular scraps of paper when we want...

Why the U.S. military’s next-generation camouflage was a complete failure

Jan 30, 2014

The art of camouflage is more than throwing paint at a soldier, and it's not one-size-fits-all. That's a lesson the...

Scanning sewage lets researchers determine a city’s favorite drugs

Jan 26, 2014

An anecdote from a student over drug use at the University of Puget Sound led one professor to test sewage...

Rosetta spacecraft to awaken from its 3-year-long slumber

Jan 19, 2014

Two and a half years is a long time to sleep, even for a machine. That's how long Rosetta has...

3D print your unborn fetus so you can hold it before it’s even born

Jan 17, 2014

So you dropped some cash and upgraded to a 4-D ultrasound, and now you’re thinking to yourself, “Well I’ve already...

Researchers discover essentially a 3D version of graphene

Jan 17, 2014

A collaboration of researchers at the U.S Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has discovered that sodium bismuthate can...

China tests new hypersonic missile that can bypass U.S. air defenses

Jan 15, 2014

China has flight-tested a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle in a move that was scientific in nature and not targeted at...

These doomsday planes protect our leaders from the apocalypse

Jan 10, 2014

The E-4B is one of the so-called Doomsday planes. In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien...