From YahooNews: 
A robot invention with a leg to stand on
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A US scientist has created a robot that can find a way to keep working on its own after suffering damage, an invention that could prove useful for robotic space missions in distant planets, according to a study.
Joshua Bongard, a University of Vermont […]

From YahooNews: 
T-shirt turns air guitar into music
CANBERRA, Australia - Scientists announced Monday that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.
The T-shirt has motion sensors built into its elbows that pick up the wearer’s arm motions and relay them wirelessly to a computer which interprets them as […]

 
I stumbled upon this today, the pictures are pretty amazing so I thought I would share.  No this machine is not a model from some new Star Wars movie, these pictures are of a real $100 million dollar, 45,000 ton trenching machine being used on an open air coal mine in Europe.   These pictures are of its […]

From YahooNews: 
New fast food debuts in U.S. fairs — fried Coke
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new fast food is making its debut at U.S. fairs this fall — fried Coke. Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, tried about 15 different varieties before coming up with his perfect recipe — a batter mix made […]

From YahooNews: 
Scientists create cloak of invisibility
WASHINGTON - Scientists are boldly going where only fiction has gone before — to develop a Cloak of Invisibility. It isn’t quite ready to hide a Romulan space ship from Capt. James T. Kirk or to disguise
Harry Potter, but it is a significant start and could show the way to […]

Have you ever wanted to print your very own Virgin Mary Toast?  Or how about a Picture of a piece of toast, on a piece of toast, on a piece of toast?  Or how about your company logo?
The new Zuse Toaster allows you to do it yourself, burn any image you want into your toast, […]

From YahooNews: 
New phone will scream if it’s stolen
LONDON - Now if your mobile telephone is stolen, you can scream — and your phone can, too. A new service launched Monday is designed to deter mobile phone theft by equipping telephones with an ear-piercing scream.
The screaming won’t stop unless the battery is removed. Even if the […]

From YahooNews: 
Designer creates floating bed
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million).
Janjaap Ruijssenaars took inspiration for the bed — a sleek black platform, which took six years to develop and can […]

From YahooNews: 
You know anybody who needs an “anti-stupid” pill?
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an “anti-stupidity” pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.
It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping […]

From YahooNews:
Bar in China allows stressed out customers to beat up staff
BEIJING (AFP) - A new bar in eastern China is offering customers an unusual outlet for anger — by allowing them to use the staff as punching bags, state media said Monday.
In addition to getting a drink, customers at the “Rising Sun Anger […]

By Restless
This development sounds like a real advance for the 21st century.
From the “open source” movement comes an ideology that is moving into literature, scientific research and religion. I hope political parties and government is next.
“Yoism — a faith invented by a Massachusetts psychologist — shuns godly wisdom passed down by high priests. […]

 
Back in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, and in some horrible work places, even today, these stupid corporate “inspirational” posters could be found in company lobbies, kitchens and so on.  They were always a really stupid idea as most employee’s find them insulting, and even a bit Big Brother-ish.
Over the years a lot of people […]

In about a year Boeing will be released the first 787 dreamliners for commercial service.  
Why is this significant?   For the first time in history a major commercial airplane will not be made of just metal (aluminum) but mainly of composite carbon graphite and plastic materials.  This gives the plane better range and fuel efficiency.  More […]

 
(inside a MagiQuest Nerd cave)
A company called “MagiQuest” is trying an interesting new concept.  They are building “Kingdoms” where people will come into a computer fantasy game like setting in a 20,000 square foot facility and interact with video screens, (and maybe live actors?  I’m not clear on this) to solve puzzles in quests etc.

(Nerdy kids with […]