"A new type of memory device has been made by researchers in the US and Italy by attaching individual viruses to tiny specks of semiconducting material called quantum dots."

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"Conventional implants only allow detection of tones as low as around 7 kHz, but the new implant allowed frequencies as low as 0.6kHz to be detected."

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"...one 315 sq ft unit can extract a minimum of 48 liters of fresh water from the air each day. Depending on the number of collectors used, an unlimited daily supply of water could be produced ev

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"Hitachi has successfully trial manufactured a lightweight, portable brain scanner that enables users to keep tabs on their mental activity during the course of their daily lives."

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"The training device, created by Janssen L.P., is a rig with earphones and goggles that plunges the wearer into the mind of a serious schizophrenic." The street will find its own use for thi

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"...the recent creation of a genuine, working 3D mouse system that you wear as a ring on one finger could open the door to a new model of GUI display that lets the user explore an interface in in

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"...this biometric deadbolt is a convenient alternative to a keyed lock. On the back of the curved metal protrusion you’ll find the sensor which will match a swiped fingerprint and unlock the bol

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"A camera that monitors eye movements from up to 10 metres away makes it possible for smart billboards that track the attention of passers-by." I'm selling cheap sunglasses for a living from

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"MacLockPick is a USB sized gizmo that can extract passwords, e-mail addresses, recently accessed files, search strings, bookmarks and internet history from running or sleeping computers."

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"A pocket-sized device that runs on two AA batteries and copies DNA as accurately as expensive lab equipment has been developed by researchers in the US." Biotech's tipping point?

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"You will easily and quite literally "feel" wireless access points in the vicinity and automatically sense their signal strength as easily as you feel the wind on your cheek."

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"Wouldn’t it be nice to see how well an off-the-peg or mail order suit fitted without trying it on? Sony Ericsson thinks it can help with a cellphone that makes this shopper’s dream come true.&qu

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"Here's a weird tip I learned way back from a hardcore Sun engineer, Ben Stoltz... You can use your head as an antenna to boost the range for little RF devices like car key fobs, garage door open

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"When someone says “rollable”, I want rollable. This is an unfolding, flexible display. Still cool, but they’ve made it less cool and disappointed me by raising expectation and not delivering on

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"With the rollable display you can read newspapers, electronic books, RSS feeds, even your email. There are 16-levels of gray which makes reading the content easy on the eyes." Could be the

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"...it's as simple as ripping a couple of your teeth out and replacing them with small devices that steadily inject your cheeks with medicine. Never worry about forgetting to take your prescripti

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"Although extrapolating from today's phones by following technology trends can provide some clues about their future direction, the danger with this approach is that it risks overlooking disconti

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"...the Heliodisplay creates a particle cloud by passing the surrounding air through a heat pump, which in turn cools the air to a level below its dew point, where it condensates, and is then col

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"...this PDA comes with a twist. It creates a body area network (BAN) that lets you communicate with other peripherals by touching them." I'm loving this idea, as well as the cyberpunk aesth

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"The BioPen has been designed to help soldiers on the battlefield determine whether they have been exposed to dangerous biological agents in under 20 minutes..." Plus many other tricks - onc

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"Publishers are tapping into a young audience by sending books to cell phones and flashing the text before users' eyes--one word at a time." Interesting.

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"Put simply, Toriton is a laser-based system that uses water as a music controller." Yeah, what he said.

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"It also uses a good deal less power, but here’s the real kicker: The new system shrinks the required hardware on a planetary mission from the size of a crate down to a chip no bigger than your t

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"Ocean waves could provide an energy-efficient way to desalinate seawater, say UK researchers. While conventional purification plants have high energy demands, the rocking motion of floating buoy

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"Bioartificial kidneys seem to work, but can we make enough for everyone who needs one?"

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"I have combined an e-mail client (which also does RSS feeds), a portable SMTP server, and a small launcher application together with a customized autorun.inf file to create a complete portable m

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"Well, we don't really have a whole lot to tell you, but our pals at the Federal Communications Commission have all but confirmed the existence of what appears to be the new Nokia internet tablet

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"Imagine mouthing a phrase in English, only for the words to come out in Spanish. That is the promise of a device that will make anyone appear bilingual, by translating unvoiced words into synthe

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"...is a website dedicated to making and using fabbers - machines that can make almost anything, right on your desktop. [It] provides an open source kit that lets you make your own simple fabber,

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"In a recent press release, Brazilian technology company Abcesso announced that they would begin exporting an add-on component that essentially turns your standard gas-only car into a flex-fuel v

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