Doesnt it just seem like yesterday when Grandma used to embroider your resistor charts for you? But now that youre grown up, Adafruit wants you to cross-stitch the Ohm Sweet Ohm color band guide your...
Ever since Stuxnet was discovered, most of the accusing fingers have been pointed at the US, Israel or both, whether or not there was any evidence; it was hard to ignore malware that seemed tailor-ma...
While WWJCs already got a healthy list of special guests to address fellow iOS hackers, word has it that pod2g -- a well-known and good-looking contributor to the iDevice jailbreak scene -- will be t...
The Hubble team over at NASA has confirmed what its suspected for a while: that our galaxy is destined for a direct collision / love fest with Andromeda, culminating in the birth of "Milkomeda....
Just when we thought those pesky scientists had stopped messing with the Periodic Table, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry goes and ratifies another two. The pair of elements were...
Its time to give your pockets a rest. Take a cue from Parsons student Aisen Chacin and stick your MP3 player where it belongs: in your mouth. The catchily-named Play-a-Grill combines bone-conducting ...
Google has already been taking us to exotic locations through Street View, but now its hoping to enshrine the most famous places on Earth through the World Wonders Project, one car (or trike) at a ti...
Though not quite a replacement for Mountain Views ill-fated dictionary, this 1,240 page tome contains the first Google image search result for each word in a run-of-the-mill dictionary. With a PHP sc...
If you have any chickens in the house, youre going to want to keep them away from the computer. Georgia Tech researchers have developed the device that will haunt their feathered dreams. The prototyp...
The mark that Steve Jobs left on the industry is a deep one, indeed. But aside from regular product announcements, we didnt see all that much of the Apple founder. Jobss appearances at the All Things...
The FCC has created a new forum for corporations, experts and activists to scrap over web laws: The Net Neutrality Advisory Committee. Members have been tasked with "tracking and evaluating the e...
Youd have thought that replacing a human teacher with a swanky robot would be enough to keep the kids interested, but apparently not. The University of Wisconsin-Madison found that supplying a robot ...
In whats likely to be good news for mothers that just cant seem to cut the cord, a team of Japanese engineers from Yamagata University have crafted a tiny telepresence robot that mounts to your shoul...
SpaceX hit one pretty big milestone recently -- to put it mildly -- and its now already back with another fairly significant one. Its announced today that satellite service provider Intelsat has sign...
Much ado was made when security experts found Stuxnet wreaking havoc, but its looking as though the malware was just a prelude to a much more elaborate attack thats plaguing the Middle East. Flame, a...
Wipe that insincere, two-faced grin off your face -- your computer knows youre full of it. Or at least it will once it gets a load of MITs research on classifying frustration, delight and facial expr...
Ask the average geek to describe the Apple II and youll probably hear something about its legacy or software. Ask Steve Wozniak circa 1977, on the other hand, and hell write you a technical tome -- o...
What, you didnt think those games appeared on Xbox Live through some act of magic, did you? No, theyre the product of insanely small teams working insanely long hours, at the risk of their well-being...
Welcome to Growing Up Geek, an ongoing feature where we take a look back at our youth and tell stories of growing up to be the nerds that we are. Today, we have our new editor, Alexis Santos. Out of ...
Valves Portal series has been used as the pretext for many achievements outside of puzzle gaming, including getting hitched. Keeping you from shuffling off this mortal coil, however, is still new. Tw...
Afraid of needles? You may not have to be if a team of MIT scientists get their way. Researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing a jet-injection device (similar to this one...
NASA hopes that one small step by Googles Lunar X Prize will eventually lead to a giant leap in protecting historical sites on the moon. The X Prize Foundation announced that it will adopt guidelines...
Google has been publishing what its dubbed Transparency Reports for some time now -- detailing things like government requests to remove content from search results or requests for users information ...
Intels chief technology officer, Justin Rattner, doesnt own a smartphone. Well, not by his definition anyway. Talking in Tel Aviv, Rattner was evangelizing about the opportunities in machine learning...
Mountain Views just dished out some good news for Syrians, Picasa, Chrome, and Google Earth were officially made available for download in the complex nation as of yesterday. US export controls and s...
If 10,000 of you go and vote at Lego Cuusoo, we could soon have a Ladyada Lego Workshop. The concept, whipped up by Limor Fried and Phillip Torrone, was a direct response to the borderline offensive ...
The search for Bigfoot continues and, no, thats not a nod to a very special episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Though Harry and the Hendersons did its best to humanize that monster of myth, a group of we...
A team from MIT has decided to end slow-pouring ketchup problems once and for all with its LiquiGlide project. Instead of karate-chopping the 57 logo on the bottles neck, a super-non-stick coating is...
Its still very much a concept, and not something being described as a business venture, but author / designer Douglas Coupland is hoping that his new "V-Pole" design will serve as something o...
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