Smart appliances will tell Google when you rise, and hit the shower
Now that we know Google — the search engine giant and revolving door operation for CIA analysts — has been spying on Wi-Fi laptop users, we can expect corporations and governments to next target...
View ArticleWii Fit fries pacemakers?
Wii Fit making your defibrillator flutter? Balance Board taking your back out? Some researchers suspect the video games industry, which touts the health benefits of so-called exergames, is paying...
View ArticleWaltham-based co. gives 3D peeks at Hub eateries
Photo: Stella Yodo/Flickr CC From my Boston Globe column, User Friendly… I’m told the decor at Abby Park in East Milton is enough to make it worth visiting. But a new, free iPhone app might soon help...
View ArticleBoy Scouts see merit in sci-tech
The Boy Scouts are working to stem America’s science and engineering brain drain. Last week, 38 Scouts, most of them from Eastern Massachusetts, were among the first to receive the Inventing badge, the...
View ArticleGadgets: LG Aria is a delightful, wee songbird
The LG Aria Aria looks like a palm-sized version of HTC’s Incredible… Wonderful device, but another example of what my friend, Sean, calls “the poor man’s iPhone.” You can support my work on this blog...
View ArticleGalactica actual: MMO version of hit sci-fi series due this winter
I have seen nothing about Battlestar Galactica Online (Winter, 2010) to suggest players will be able to build a trusting relationship with Laura Roslin, for example, by acquiring the hallucinogenic...
View ArticleSwann’s latest security device has that sinister vibe – The Boston Globe
From my latest Boston Globe column, and the US Department of “Start Snitchin’”… Swann made its name in the security business, with cameras designed to catch shoplifters and home invaders in the act....
View ArticleVTech makes fun stand-ins for pricey gadgets
Photo: tinkerbrad/Flickr CC VTech is pitching its new $60 MobiGo and V.Reader devices as a means for Mom and Dad to get their iPads and Kindles back. I am not quite sold on the idea, as I write in the...
View ArticleSingularity watch: Through computer, brain can direct a robot
From my Boston Globe column this week: Wearing what looks like a swim cap wired with electrodes, you can “command’’ a robot to move left, right, and forward by looking at corresponding areas on a...
View Article"Open science": Humanity's best hope?
Photo: dno1967/Flickr CC If we are to believe transhumanists, people who bill themselves as champions of superlongevity and artificial human enhancement, 2045 should be a very good year. But we won’t...
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