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Warming Up to Superconductivity

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Scientists are discovering ways to warm up super- conductors and change the way power is used. (more)

Portal into the Mind

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New MRI technology will capture a person’s dreams in visual images. (more)

Google Is God?

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The Church of Google offers humorous philosophical proofs that the popular search engine may be God. (more)

Holographic Messages

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Prince Charles recently delivered a speech to the World Future Energy Conference via hologram. (more)

Power Pacing

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Researchers have developed a device that generates energy from the simple act of walking. (more)

Mind Over Computer

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Emotiv's neuro-headset lets you command a computer solely with the power of your mind. (more)

Virtual Reality and Hallucination

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Our understanding of what is or isn't "real" is being challenged, thanks to hyper-connectivity, hyper-conductivity, and processor speed. How is our personal sense of "reality" being transformed by new technological highs? (more)

Two Seat Solar Car

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A solar powered car designed by Taiwanese engineers may hit the streets within a year. (more)

Military Minefields

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New technologies that manipulate the human mind and emotions can be used as military weapons or to liberate human potential. How come nobody is telling us about them? (more)

Can Microbes Make Hydrogen?

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Researchers demonstrate that microbes convert petroleum into methane, and that hydrogen might be next. (more)

The Transported Man: Phantasmagoria, Tesla and Magic

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The foreground of The Prestige is a war between two rival professional magicians. But on another level it explores the roots of modern media as seen through the 19th century concepts of illusion and electricity. (more)

Digital Dialogue

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An advance in video-gaming allows users to virtually interact in scenes of dialogue with other characters. (more)

Reality 2.0

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A trip into the new borderless realm, which is not bound by geography, but rather by technology. (more)

Nature's Glue

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Researchers from Oregon State have developed a "green glue" derived from the proteins mussels use to cling to rocks. (more)

Race to the Sun

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Technische Universität Darmstadt wins the Solar Decathlon, a competition to design, build, and operate the most attractive and energy efficient solar powered house. (more)

Future Projections

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Handheld device creates “information spaces," a kind of virtual reality desktop on any surface. [Video] (more)

Artificial Life: Here It Comes

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Bad boy bioengineer J. Craig Venter will soon announce the first organism created with synthetic chromosomes. (more)

Wind Yourself Up

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Croatian designers have created Wing, a personal umbrella-sized windmill.


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Google and the Myceliation of Consciousness

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Let me introduce myself. I am RoseRose, doing business on Google Earth 2007 as an alien paleoanthropologist from another timeframe, studying the heirloom code of Homo Sapiens. I’m focusing on your critical position at the beginning of the psychedelic age, with the emergence of the first psychedelically informed superpower: Google. (more)

Party Like It's 2049

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"Uber-geeks" and a curious billionaire come together for the Annual Singularity Summit. (more)

Space Hotel Shoots for the Stars

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Galactic Suite Limited plans to launch a space hotel to orbit Earth by 2012. (more)

The Technology of Pain

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Weapons manufacturer Raytheon has developed new devices that inflcit pain without physical injury. While some are hailing the technology as a boon for non-lethal combat methods, critics fear it has seriously dark implications. (more)

Girls Gone Geeky

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The She's Geeky (un)conference provides an agenda-free open space for women in the tech trade. (more)

Virtual Reality for Real

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Russian artists have developed a headset that turns reality into a virtual world. (more)

The Amazing Hexayurt

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This inexpensive, eco-friendly, open-source shelter system is suitable for festivals and disasters alike. (more)

Harnessing Our Own Energy

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MIT scientists turn energy from our body's movements into electricity. (more)

Here Comes the Sun

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Researchers combine Buckyballs and carbon nanotubes to create organic solar cells that you "paint" onto surfaces. (more)

Slimming the Spacesuit

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Buck Rogers, eat your heart out. The skin tight spacesuit is coming our way.
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iPhone and the DE-volution of Handheld Computing Power

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The iPhone's net effect is to take computing power away from people. (more)

Take the Bucky Challenge

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Win $100,000 for a design solution that solves one of humanity's most pressing problems. (more)