3DTV hits US with major discounts

Three-dimensional television is hitting BestBuy this week — and it’s coming in cheaper than expected. Sales and demos begin this Wednesday with Panasonic’s VT25 bundle. That includes a 50 inch plasma screen, a Blu-ray player, and a pair of active glasses. The system works by the glass lenses alternately dimming (hence “active”) in sync with […]





Former officials play a very modern war game

A four hour cyber-war simulation suggests the United States response could be severely lacking if such an event became reality. The Cyber Shockwave event, organized by the Bipartisan Policy Center, says that new laws are needed to give the federal government greater controls over privately controlled computers in the event of an attack. It also […]

A Date with a Dragon Down the Carpal Tunnel

So you might have noticed that I’ve gone quiet the last couple of weeks. All signals have been cut, so to speak, since I’ve got the geeky equivalent of a mogul skier’s torn ACL: that is, carpal tunnel syndrome (or, perhaps, RSI). It blows. In every respect it sucks. It’s all-encompassing pain, and it’s a […]

CubeStormer Robot Solves Heavily Scrambled Rubik’s Cube in Seconds

You’ve probably all seen one of those amazing Rubik’s cube solving robots, but I can guarantee that what you’re about to see is going to completely blow you away. Built entirely from Lego Mindstorms pieces, the CubeStormer is the world’s fastest speedcubing robot. It can scan and solve any 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cubes, no matter how […]

From TED: How Should We Approach the War on Cancer?

By Jimmy Rogers (@me) Contributing Writer, [GAS] Back in April we published “The Cure for Cancer“ and got a fantastic response from our readers.  It seems you folks are really interested in the topics of cancer science and cancer research.  Maybe because, unlike other diseases, cancer eventually effects everyone because it is a “disease of […]