Quoted: A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time.

Quoted: Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking and public analysis. Our primary interests are in Asia, the former Soviet bloc, Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, but we expect to be of assistance to peoples of all countries who wish to reveal unethical behavior in their governments and corporations. We aim for maximum political impact...(more)

Quoted: Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty ...

pretty sweet

Quoted: "And you wanted to spend Nana's inheritance on braces for the kids? Wheeeee! Every tooth is straight from 10 feet in the AAAaaaaaaiiiiirrrrr......"

Quoted: Tobey said Coskata's method generates more ethanol per ton of feedstock than corn-based ethanol and requires far less water, heat and pressure. Those cost savings allow it to turn, say, two bales of hay into five gallons of ethanol for less than $1 a gallon, the company said. Corn-based ethanol costs $1.40 a gallon to produce, according to the Renewable Fuels Association.

Great talk

Quoted: TED Talks Legendary physicis David Deutschback-burners the work for which he&#39;s best known -- quantum physics, quantum computing, the many-worlds theory -- to discuss a more basic topic: how to think about our species significance in the universe. Far from being simply &quot;chemical scum,&quot; we have the ability to gain knowledge, the importance of which he illustrates in spectacular manner. As a result, he says, we are always equipped to solve problems (including global warming). The brain contains the tools we need: <strong>knowledge, reason and creativity</strong>. It&#39;s a thrilling, and profoundly optimistic argument.

Interesting ted talk from one of the makers of lost.

Quoted: CES has no shortage of displays. And when MAKE offered us some TV-B-Gone clickers to bring to the show, we pretty much couldn't help ourselves. We shut off a TV. And then another. And then a wall of TVs. And we just couldn't stop.

click to play

This is amazing. Basically, learn how to make your tv appear to be 3D using head mounted IR and the Wiimote. Hard to explain but the effect is incredible.

Quoted: Using the infrared camera in the Wii remote and a head mounted sensor bar (two IR LEDs), you can accurately track the location of your head and render view d...