You probably know iRobot for inventing the Roomba. But like most robotics companies, iRobot has always worked on more serious government projects, such as military reconnaissance, too. Now Helen Greiner, one of the iRobot co-founders, ...READ»
Companies like Terracycle are great at upcycling trash into brand new consumer products, but researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois are taking the concept of turning trash into treasure to new heights with a ...READ»
Artist and architect Maya Lin is perhaps best known for her memorials--a series that includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Her latest memorial, a multi-sited, ...READ»
IBM's annual Next 5 in 5, a list of five innovations that will take off in the next five years, is ready. And in our humble opinion, it's probably pretty accurate. The theme this year is "cities," and according to IBM, our major ...READ»
More than 900 people spotted the minute differences in a series of slideshow images we posted to the site last week (man, slide number 5 was tough--the complete list of answers is below). The randomly chosen winner of the Sonos ...READ»
The NookDevs just got a full web browser up and running on the Nook, alongside Android Twitter/Facebook apps. At what point does the Nook cease to be an eBook reader and start to be something more? [Twitter via Android Guys]
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Design Within Reach, the modern furniture retailer that developed a nasty habit of knocking off famous designs, has taken one more step toward reviving its ailing business and repositioning itself as a trustworthy brand with ...READ»
Google's continuing to refine the way YouTube works, and the latest move echoes something I hinted at yesterday: YouTube is becoming a social net. It now has a tie-up with Facebook so you can see what vids your friends are ...READ»
This is one very unexpected trend: Yet another magazine publisher has demonstrated how it thinks its future might look as a digital edition on a tablet PC. This time it's Swedish publisher Bonnier, and their video is clever. But wrong.READ»
Great news for the cancerphobic, by which I mean everyone: Scientists have cracked the cancer genome! Or at least they've done it for lung and skin cancer, two of the scariest varieties. This is an enormous breakthrough for cancer ...READ»
It will be hard to make good on the climate negotiations currently being worked out in Copenhagen without readily-accessible information on carbon emissions. One day, the Planetary Skin Institute may provide all the info we need, ...READ»
It's been suspected, and Apple itself hasn't missed the marketing opportunity, but it looks like the iPhone and iPod Touch are turning into serious gaming systems. The latest confirmation of this? EA's releasing a bunch of ...READ»
Ruh-roh...this sounds like a very sour note at the end of a year that's seen many traditional newspapers and magazines hit trouble: The Miami Herald is so strapped for cash it's soliciting charitable Web donations on a per-story ...READ»
¡Ay, caramba! With new episodes airing at least through 2011, The Simpsons, which turns 20 on December 17, has been on the small screen longer than any other comedy or drama in prime-time television history. Below, a look at the dough -- or is it d'oh? -- behind Matt Groening's brainchild.READ»
Uh oh. The Whenever-We-Feel-Like-It Internet Police are back on the job.
The FBI arrested 47-year-old Bronx resident Gilberto Sanchez earlier this morning and accused him of copyright infringement for allegedly uploading a copy of ...READ»
