Adam Estes
Stretchable, Tattoo-Like Electronics Are Here to Check Your Health
earable computing is all the rage this year as Google pulls back the curtain on their Glass technology, but some scientists want to take the idea a stage further. The emerging field of stretchable electronics is taking advantage of new polymers that...
Tracking Students With RFID Chips Is Pretty Lucrative
Today in the department of bad ideas, we have a pair of San Antonio high schools that's decided to tag its students with RFID chips so that they can track their every move on campus. Starting this fall, the Northside Independent School District will be...
Jimmy Wales Won't Stand For the UK's Internet Tracking Bill
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is not too pleased with Parliament at the moment. British lawmakers are currently considering a bill known colloquially as the "snooper's charter" that would track the Internet usage, texting habits and email...
DARPA's Robo-Cheetah Is Now Faster Than Usain Bolt
I really want to get excited about the DARPA-funded robot that's faster than any man on Earth. But then I imagine it's chasing me.
Green Ways to Cool Your Steaming-Hot Server Farm
Few people think about what's happening on the other end of the cord to keep their Internet alive. Among other things is a vast network of data centers that quite literally contain the all of the files that constitute the billions of web pages, mobile...
Samsung Is Copying Apple's Shady Labor Practices, Too
Samsung just can't get a break. Less than two weeks after a judge ordered it pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple for patent infringement, the South Korean company is now catching flak for shady labor practices in China. The New York-based human...
How Did AntiSec Score 12 Million Apple IDs from the FBI?
The fun-loving, government oppression-hating hackers at AntiSec are back in action with the release of over a million Apple user IDs. The encrypted file hit the web late Monday night along with a characteristic rant against everything from the NSA to...
Science Is Getting Closer to Finding a Cure for Paralysis
A team scientists in Switzerland and the United States must be thrilled after an experimental stem cell treatment they developed helped two paralyzed patients regain feeling in their bodies. The small trial involved injecting three patients with 2...
Facebook's Advertising Business Is Getting Desperate
Facebook stock price hit an all-time low on Friday as a fresh round of concern over advertising spending mounted on Wall Street. The new low price is $18.41, and some analysts expect that number to keep falling, possibly reaching as low as $15 a share...
Why Do We Need Eye-Controlled Electronics?
This week, there's a strange new invention making waves at the IFA technology conference in Berlin: an eyeball controlled TV. It pretty much works just like you'd expect it to. Look at an area on the screen like the channel, for instance, blink and the...
In Soviet Russia, Tablet Computer Reads You
If there's anywhere that could care less about the Apple-Android patent battles, it's Moscow. In the capital of the former USSR, the state is shaking off the shackles of the United States consumer electronics market and building their own devices. At...
This Is the Year Of the Bionic Eye
Giving blink people back their sight is a task of biblical proportions. Seriously, it's up there with walking on water and turning water into wine. Thanks to science, though, what we once imagined to be a miracle is now a simple surgical procedure...