Fans of the Japanese form of graphic art have become a world wide occurrence. In Japan, it’s more than just a hobby, it’s life. A new service called ComCom, also known as Com2, by Japanese publisher Shinchosha, will deliver around 200 pages a month of the best in Japanese graphic art, directly to subscriber’s cellphones. These art publications are not ...

A research project by MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Group has sprung up RoCo, an interesting robotic computer monitor prototype. RoCo is not your everyday monitor. This monitor will be able to cater to human emotions and needs. How can a monitor cater to human needs? …capable of recognizing and physically responding to human socio-emotive cues such as postural shifts ...

Picture this. You come down with a horrible case of some horrible diarrhea inducing disease. Now imagine being able to take a pill that literally detects the illness, builds a custom remedy, and then delivers the drug to the necessary areas in need of healing. The University Of Maryland is working on a similar method in which magnetic nanofactories would ...

In a recent paper by Dr. Christoph Adami entitled What Do Robots Dream Of, Adami claims that robots could benefit from dreaming in their down times just like humans do. Since modern research has determined that dreams are more than just sleep entertainment, but an aid to live out daily events and improve on obstacles, researchers are starting to think ...

If you’re reading this, odds are that you weren’t alive to see how early of a jump people got on creating environmentally friendly cars. The pictured article was published in the April 1924 issue of Popular Mechanics. While the motive behind the article was most likely for sales reasons and a certain “cool” factor and not for the post-discovered global ...

Tired of your old beat up iPod case? The 45 iPod case is like nothing we have ever seen. Like the name might suggest, the product is an old 45 molded to perfectly house your iPod. Not personalized enough for you? Send in your own 45 and they’ll mold it for you. While we wouldn’t recommend sending in a rare ...

Star Trek fans will be happy to know that the original Star Trek movie’s Spock Spacesuit is up for grabs on eBay. The spacesuit was featured prominently in the Star Trek first movie when Spock leaves the “Enterprise” to perform a mindmeld with the “V’Ger Probe”. The suit itself has a interesting display of ridges and rivets over the knees, ...

Elitegroup Computer Systems recently announced their addition to their ATX motherboard family with the NF650iSLIT-A LGA775 (or the 650i if your keeping score at home). The 650i has tremendous external connectivity with support for 10 USB devices, along with gigabit LAN connections. Also included with the 650i is two PCI Express x16 slots, arranged in a user-friendly x8 by x8 ...

Ok, the title might be slightly exaggerated and ridiculous, and way over dramatized, but The Wisdom Door does look pretty cool and at least seem like an interesting idea. The Wisdom door is actually a prototype created by Duke University, which will act similar to a key-card door, except the Wisdom Door would open based on biometric technology. How is ...

In our modern times of identity theft, phreaking, phone tapping, and lord knows what else, its good to feel secure with the people we talk too. The GSMK CryptoPhone is the secure answer for the PDA. The Tri-band phone runs Windows Mobile 5.0, has a 2.8 inch TFT LCD touchscreen, a 1.3 MP CMOS camera, and multimedia support for audio ...