The Martin Jetpack will be unveiled at AirVenture at Oshkosh on July 29, 2008. This is the Ultimate Personal Flying Machine! After the unveiling, you can find out more at

Changizi claims the visual system has evolved to compensate for neural delays, allowing it to generate perceptions of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future, so that when an observer actually perceives something, it is the present rather than what happened one-tenth of a second ago. Using his hypothesis, called “perceiving-the-present,” he […]

As if you needed more reason to become a vegetarian.
For years, scientists believed that the parts of the human brain that supported complex thought and language had only recently evolved. The mental life of animals was treated as primitive and utterly distinct from ours. But an explosion in animal research is showing that many components […]

Segway inventor Dean Kamen is looking to re-invent the prosthetic arm. IEEE Spectrum caught up with Kamen and one of his “test pilots,” to see the robotic arm (named after Luke Skywalker’s articficial limb) in action.

I experienced this whilst playing the video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Jamais Cascio has a great article on Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley hypothesis* over at his blog Open the Future. Definitely a good read.
I can only describe the experience as unsettling. There’s not much more that I can […]

I have no place in passing judgment about relationships in our society. But in fact I CAN. Through careful observation among my peers and society I noticed quite a few things that anger me about guys trying to achieve a healthy normal relationship. So with this, I’m going to cover a topic that most guys […]

Scientists have made ordinary human skin cells take on the chameleon-like powers of embryonic stem cells, a startling breakthrough that might someday deliver the medical payoffs of embryo cloning without the controversy.
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Cool. Now where is the personal MRI machine?
Reading your genomic profile—learning your predispositions for various diseases, odd traits, and a talent or two—is something like going to a phantasmagorical family reunion. First you’re introduced to the grandfather who died 23 years before you were born, then you move along for a chat with your […]