Having an open fire in your house is dangerous, and it’s not good to inhale the smoke. But it’s how billions of people cook and heat their houses. The Greenway Smart Stove aims to change that--with no moving parts and at a price anyone can afford.
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Squeeze some viruses together and--voila!--you get electricity. It’s a tiny amount of energy, but viruses are virtually unlimited. Soon, your gadgets might be powered by angry strands of RNA.
By studying how toddlers learn and adapt to the world around them, computer programmers are trying to create smarter computers--machines that think more like humans.
Berkeley-Haas stands out as a case study for how a culture codified with brand values can make a huge difference in a competitive arena in which there seems to be little real differentiation.
In the rubble following a natural disaster, a flipped-over robot could mean life or death. But taking a cue from lizards--whose tails keep them balanced as they leap--new robots may be more mobile and entirely stable.
Humans have spent millennia learning how to read each other’s emotions and treat each other right. Facebook is now trying to figure out how to help them do that online.
The world can’t seem to get enough of the VW camper. Here to send hearts aflutter yet again from Berkeley to Woodstock -- with a stopover, this go-round, in Silicon Valley -- is the Ecco concept car, a wacky futuristic camper for tech-horny hippies.
Coming soon: personalized commuter forecasts that analyze the traffic on individual routes, warn drivers of the rush-hour madness to come, and suggest new travel plans (including alternative forms of transportation).
