
In secret trials last week, the army said it had made a vehicle completely disappear and predicted an invisible tank would be ready for service by 2012. The new technology uses cameras and projectors to beam images of the surrounding landscape onto a tank. The result is that anyone looking in the direction of the vehicle only sees what is beyond it and not the tank itself. A soldier who was at the trials said, "This technology is incredible.
American laboratories handling the world's deadliest germs and toxins have experienced more than 100 accidents and missing shipments since 2003, and the number is increasing steadily as more labs across the country are approved to do the work.
Instead of composing an e-mail on a PDA, says Leslie Spring, the company's chief technology officer, imagine instructing a handheld to "send an e-mail to Tom and tell him 'I'll be there in 10 minutes.'" Spring says that such a feature could be possible with the algorithms--based on 15 patents--that Cognitive Code has developed.I can't wait until I can vocally instruct my phone to send Mike a picture of my ass.
I heard it on a commercial just now and I laughed because I've done it more than once. Hell, if someone called me I'd be doing it right now.
The researchers have bred a large colony of the cancer-resistant mice, all from one mouse they discovered in 1999.
Sorry for the double dip today but this looks too promising to pass up:
The researchers have bred a large colony of the cancer-resistant mice, all from one mouse they discovered in 1999.
The difference in the power available from a gamma-ray laser compared to a normal laser is the same as the difference between a nuclear explosion and a chemical explosion," said Dr David Cassidy of the University of California, Riverside, and one of the authors of the paper.
I have it on good authority that they suck. The death rays, that is. Not the scientists. They're probably pretty cool.
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