Sixth sense

An amazing demonstration of technology that is with us right now. Use your hand as a calculator and your wrist as a watch, among other things.

Bots on the Ground

For all you sci-fi fans and lovers of Star Plot:

No less an authority than Bill Gates, in a recent Scientific American article titled "A Robot in Every Home," announces that the next big technological wave sweeping the world is robots. He compares their rise to the PC revolution he helped lead.

-from Joel Garreau's article in the Washington Post.

Beam me up, Scotty

Sky hooks are on the way (SMH).

JAPANESE scientists are attempting to build a lift that will take passengers into space, marking the realisation of a vision that has inspired science fiction writers for generations.

The lift's carriages, which will themselves require new feats of engineering, would move up and down 35,000 kilometre-long cables. Those cables would need to be stronger and lighter than any material ever woven.

They would be anchored to the ground and disappear into the sky, eventually reaching a satellite docking station orbiting above the Earth.

Carbon nanotubes to the rescue! Yeah!

Large Hadron Collider

Reported in the Australian.

Teh cool! Will we at last find the Higgs boson?