Best Buy Sends Customers 5 iPads By Mistake, Says To Keep Them Anyway
• Business InsiderBest Buy is playing the good guy this holiday season.
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The Only Smartphones Worth Buying Right Now [RANKED]
• Business InsiderWe finally made it past the holiday release schedule for this year's smartphones. And there are a bunch of great ones to check out.
LA100 fully autonomous UAV brings aerial photography to non-flyers
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Darren QuickMicro UAVs have proven a boon for photographers looking to spread their wings into the aerial realm.
3D Printer Could Transform Moon Dirt Into Lunar Base
• http://www.space.com, Megan GannonFor space scientists dreaming up a manned base on the moon, 3D printing with lunar dust looms as an attractive possibility.
8 Cool Raspberry Pi Projects for Diminutive Computing Fun
• http://www.wired.com,Raspberry Pi, the new and novel credit-card-sized computer, has inspired the minds and workshops of an entire hacking community, who not only develop software projects for it, but are creating external interfaces with clever abandon.
Gourmet vending machine dispenses fresh caviar and escargot (for a price)
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Jonathan FincherBeverly Hills Caviar has installed vending machines in several Los Angeles malls that dispense caviar, escargot, and other gourmet foods
Staples stores to offer custom 3D printing
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthYou might want to hold off on buying that 3D printer.
Jawbone Up
• http://www.wired.com, by Mathew Honan$130
Augmented Light Bulb Turns a Desk Into a Touch Screen
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Tom SimoniteA computer that can be screwed into a light socket can project interactive images onto any nearby surface.
A Substance Called Carbomorph Is The Key To 3-D Printing Entire Electronic Gadgets
• http://www.popsci.com, By Clay DillowUniversity of Warwick researchers have developed a new material that is conductive, piezoresistant, and printable in the latest generation of consumer 3-D printers.
MIT Researchers Create The Swiss Army Knife Of The Robotics World
• http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn PlacideWhile engineering programmable matter, they also invented a motor that holds its position without power.
A Gadget that Makes You the Doctor
• http://www.technologyreview.com, By Rachel MetzScanadu hopes its tricorder-like device and a smartphone will help people track their health and diagnose problems.
Apps that Keep You from Getting Lost in Translation
• Technologyreview.comThere are plenty of translation apps for smartphones, but sometimes they speak better than they listen.
Augmented Light Bulb Turns a Desk Into a Touch Screen
• Technologyreview.comA computer that can be screwed into a light socket can project interactive images onto any nearby surface.
A Gadget that Makes You the Doctor
• Technologyreview.comScanadu hopes its tricorder-like device and a smartphone will help people track their health and diagnose problems.
Five Christmas Presents That Could Change Your Life
• Business InsiderA chair with no back; a helmet that’s not really there; a ‘Star Trek’-style replicator. The Christmas gifts of the future are already here.
New Camera Snaps All-Sky Auroras in Full Color
• Wired.comCapturing a multicolored, all-sky image of the auroras that decorate Earth’s polar skies is now possible.
SOURCES CONFIRM: A New Xbox Is Coming Next Year
• Business InsiderMicrosoft Corp. will release the next version of its Xbox video-game machine, the top-selling console, in time for the holidays next year, according to people familiar with the company’s plans.
Robocod: Homeland Security adds underwater drones to their arsenal with robots based on fish
• www.dailymail.co.ukMeet Robocod, the latest weapon in Homeland Security's increasingly high-tech underwater arsenal, a robotic fish designed to safeguard the coastline of America and bring justice to the deep.
Portable and Affordable: New 3-D Printers That Cost Less Than $500
• Wired.comIt’s been easy to overlook some of the innovations coming out of the RepRap community as of late.
Sentry System Combines a Human Brain with Computer Vision
• Technologyreview.comA DARPA project suggests a mix of man and machine may be the most efficient way to spot danger.
Printable Gunmaker About to Test in Texas
• www.escapistmagazine.comLast time Defense Distributed popped up on the radar, it was in connection with its 3D Printer, which manufacturer Stratasys had yanked from Defense Distributed as soon as it realized that the so-called Wiki Weapon gunmaker actually intended to carry
The Coming Wiki Weapon Wars
• National ReviewIt seems that Defense Distributed is embracing an open-source model, in which the Wiki Weapon will give rise to a community of modders who will improve on and otherwise alter the original concept, setting off a wave of consumer-led innovations.
3D 'Wiki Weapon' guns could go into testing by end of year, maker claims
• www.guardian.co.ukThe man behind a project to create the world's first printable gun plans to test its first prototypes in the coming months
Tiny Swarming Robots Play Beethoven
• Wired.comResearchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have taught a fleet of tiny robots to play Beethoven’s “Fur Elise” on a virtual keyboard.
Samsung Thinks It'll Release Flexible OLED Displays Next Year
• popsci.comThe Wall Street Journal reports today that Samsung is "in the last stage of development" for flexible plastic OLED displays, and that the displays will be released in the first half of 2013.
A North Korean Assassin Was Caught With These Lethal Pens And Flashlights
• http://www.businessinsider.com, William WeiWhen South Korean officials arrested a North Korean spy last year, they found he was armed with only two pens and a flashlight.
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense
• http://www.ted.com, TED2009This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED.
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
• http://www.ted.com, TEDIndia 2009At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop."
These Next Generation Drones Will Do Even More With No Human Input At All
• Walter Hickey and Robert JohnsonAs Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) become more sophisticated their, capacity for abuse only grows.
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