Roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP are able to get as many as 20 of their autonomous microcopters to fly in formation and perform complex maneuvers flawlessly. In an impressive...

One man drove 12,238 miles across 30 states to scrawl a message that can only be viewed using Google Earth. His big shoutout: “Read Ayn Rand.” Nick Newcomen did a road trip over 30 days that covered...

Online games in China A hundred million happy geeks But please, no sex or subversion Aug 5th 2010 | Shanghai "Actually I’m real, so get lost" SEX must not be used to sell online...

Youku recently has launched China’s first online 3D movie theater, the Lenovo B3 3D Theater. 3D films are, of course, expensive, so Youku’s 3D Theater provides a valuable service, allowing viewers...

30 Fantastic Geeky Tricks to Get The Most From Your Mac Joshua Johnson on July 20th hints, secrets, tips, tricks If you’re one of those Mac...

Electronic controls for the 150-seat airplane will be built as modular units, designed to replace dozens of stand-alone computers now used on planes. The new system will use open-architecture software...

From Cesar Harada, who just got a job as researcher at the SENSEable City Lab at MIT and quit it soon afterwards. In his words:   A month ago I started working at the MIT SENSEable city lab in Cambridge...

I'm writing a story that is somewhat related to gliding and I got to know a German glider project called Viva (designed by a talented engineer called Martin Wezel) that has taken the concept of placing...

I wrote a few days ago that Solar Impulse, the electric aircraft that will eventually tour the world propelled by solar energy, was supposed to take off and fly overnight, just on solar power. For reasons...