Pills smarter than the patients
Complicated processes, specialized machines and the trained professionals that operate them: these are the hallmarks of modern medicine. Technology tends to isolate the afflicted through…
Martin Turczynowicz
A message from a painting in Walmart’s art section
Hey! Hey you there! Look this way for a second, no down here, right next to the big yellow smiling face and guaranteed lowest prices….
Instant science!
Strange carbon-based life forms may revolutionize the way we gather and sort information. Their colour-sensitive, stereoscopic vision coupled with opposable thumbs and good manual dexterity…
Petaflops! Terabytes!
The abundance of decorations, promotions and candy seemed to indicate that there was a celebration or festival going on in the last week of October….
Your TV just got smarter
Although it seems the Internet may be forcing television to go the way of the gramophone, some strange new corporate pairings may keep you on…
Electric feel
When you think Star Wars, your mind will probably drift to space battles and quasi-religious hermits. However, when researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Cyber warfare?
The term “computer virus” usually conjures up images of incompetent users, less-than-reputable websites and, at worst, lost data. However, the recent attack on Iran’s nuclear…
Living Lego
What if you could rearrange DNA like Lego, cutting and pasting useful bits and pieces or writing entirely new sequences? What if through this manipulation…
Net Neutrality and Internet censorship
It’s not often that a technology as radical, accessible and world changing as the Internet comes to be. It’s even more rare that the technology…
Printing: Now in 3-D
Sometime in the distant future an avid tinkerer could — for the cost of a low-end automobile — purchase a machine that turns his ideas…