Laser Welding Skin Closure Like Star Trek
Laser welding now useful in the body; this article also includes a handy compendium of Star Trek medical instruments made-real. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

G-Speak Compared To Minority Report Gesture Interface
This software platform looks a lot like the one in the movie, and there is a good reason for that. (re: Steven Spielberg)

Artist Blogger Vlach Wants Webcam Eye
This one-eyed San Francisco artist wants to replace her blind prosthesis with a working web cam. (re: Various)

Tivo, Facebook: Online Pizza Deliverators Proliferate
Why pause for even a moment from your electronic nirvana; now digital ordering leads to real world satisfaction - pizza-wise. (re: Various)

Pico Satellite Swarms
These small machines will orbit the Earth sometime next year for a test run. (re: George Lucas)

Geoplasma Plasma Refuse Plant
Neat idea to use Sixties NASA tech to turn trash into electricity. Hope it works. (re: Various)

First Optical Image Of Planet Orbiting Sun-Like Star
Very exciting development from Hubble demonstrates exoplanets can be normal-sized and be in orbit around Sun-like stars. (re: Various)

Rocket Balls - Pentagon's Kinetic Fireball Incendiaries
This looks a lot like a diagram of the mechanical theory of heat; I want to know what happens if the walls start to close in. (re: Philip E. High)

TroopTube: YouTube For Military And Families
The U.S. military takes a cautious step into interactive social media for use by troops and families. (re: Varioius)

Jules Robot Now Matches Your Smile
This robotic head represents the latest efforts by Hanson robotics, who brought you the Philip K. Dick robotic head several years ago. (re: Various)

Laser 'Breathalyzer' To Diagnose Cancer, Diabetes
New technology may provide a non-invasive way to detect disease processes early. (re: Various)

Google Flu Trends - Dr. Google Beats CDC
It turns out that Google is way ahead of the CDC in predicting flu activity. The nose knows. (re: E.M. Forster)

NEC Robot Demands Cash VIa Cellphone FeliCa RFID
This robot has its eyes - and its RFID reader - on your money. However, you're safe as long as you don't have an RFID-enabled cellphone. (re: Various)

Bach Organ Recital - On Mars
Sure, space probes have cameras, and that's great. But what about... microphones? (re: Various)

RESURRECT High-Fidelity Computer Battlefield Simulations
How would you face the no-win scenario? DARPA wants to know, and I think they want a very visceral kind of test. (re: Gene Roddenberry)

Hyperion Power Module Neighborhood Nuclear Reactor
The story about small 'nuclear batteries,' small plants that produce enough power for small towns or big neighborhoods, just keeps coming back. (re: Robert Heinlein)