“Personal cell” tech could improve mobile broadband

The man behind WebTV and OnLive says he’s created a mobile broadband technology that lets you get maximum speed regardless of how many other people are trying to connect. Steve Perlman’s claims have, to say the least, raised skepticism in the mobile industry. The technology, originally called DIDO, is now being launched under the name […]



EmoSPARK: The First Artificial Intelligence Home Console

I want one, and I’d call him HAL. I’d also program him to say: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that. Enter EmoSpark, the world’s first home artificial intelligence console that uses emotion text and content analysis to measure the emotional responses of its users. In fact, it actually detects the moods of […]

Incredible Flying Robot Bird and Dragonfly by Festo [Slow Mo Videos]

Check out these incredible flying robotic machines by Festo (above and below,) a company we often featured on GAS for their incredible robots! Slow-Mo films by the people from Earth Unplugged. [Earth Unplugged | Via LS]



Government Funds Self-Destructing Tech

Most military technology needs to be extremely robust to stand up to extreme temperatures, dust and the risk of impact. But the US military is now funding an IBM project to make electronic gadgets that can be utterly destroyed. IBM has won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the closest thing the […]

3D Printing Goes Multi-Color, Multi-Material

The company behind the MakerBot 3D printer has launched a model that can handle multiple colors and materials in one print run. Stratasys’s new machine costs $330,000 and is very much aimed at making practical objects rather than novelty items. Where normal 3D printers use a single stream of material, Objet500 Connex3 uses jets that […]

Alien technology achieves record broadband speed

A joint French and British project has achieved broadband speeds of 1.4 terabytes per second over a 255 mile distance, which the companies are claiming as a record. The speeds are apparently the result of an “alien super channel.” The project is the work of French firm Alcatel-Lucent and British Telecom. They carried out the […]

Which Battery Lasts The Longest? [Video]

The best battery for your gadgets? It’s the rechargeable kind, of course, but for traditional batteries, the regular Duracell batteries are your best bet (run time vs. cost) according to this video. [HouseholdHacker]

The AT Black Knight Transformer is a Truck/Helicopter Hybrid [Video]

Unfortunately, the video only shows what seem to be a small-scale model of the vehicle, but we should get more footage of the real thing in the next few months. You can read more about the Black Knight Transformer over at Popsci. Advanced Tactics Inc., a small aerospace company, released details about its AT Transformer […]