No Must-Have Look for Spring/Summer 09: China Daily

China Daily rounds up a few of the top runway looks for Spring/Summer 2009 from the New York, London, Paris and Milan fashion shows, but note that there is no singular must-have ticket for the coming season. ...

Canine hero wins a chance at immortality

Cloning: good thing or bad thing? Read on." Poor old Trakr. Once hailed as a hero, the retired Halifax police dog can no longer use the hind legs that pushed him through the ruins of the World Trade Center as he sniffed for survivors. His hearing has faded and, at 15, his dog...

'Beam me up Scotty' comes to life in Australia

In a homage to every Star Trek fan's fantasy, a company in Australia called Telstra actually used a hologram to beam its chief technology officer from Melbourne to Adelaide for a live business presentation. "In an...

Speaking of futuristic commutes... check out the Sky Commuter

The Sky Commuter was sold on eBay for $131,700.""

U.S. Navy says sets record for futuristic gun

""Railguns are a big deal in science fiction," Tom Boucher, the test director, said by telephone from a naval laboratory in Dahlgren, Virginia, where the event took place."We have the largest (such gun) in the world firing the highest energy levels ever," he told Reuters in a...

Own The Keenest Faucet On The Block

"Tired of that same old monotonous water? Bored with water that doesn’t look like futuristic alien mouthwash? Need to make your midnite bathroom appointments more exhilarating? Then you need to get the LED faucet light attachment from ThinkGeek. You can turn any faucet in...

Light Therapy: Alternative to Chemo

Chemotherapy kills everything in its path, and cancer cells are cancer cells because they replicate faster than the "normal" cells that surround them. Therefore chemo does more harm than good in most people. "It...

Whatever happened to the future? What could be more futuristic than 2007?

"Past seers gawped into the glitzy future to envisage a hi-tech world. But how many of them were right? What could be more futuristic than 2007? But life in the early 21st century tells us otherwise: no flying cars, no dinners in a pill, and certainly no cool rocketing off to...

NextFest 2006: Bring Imagination Please

"Walk into New York City's Jacob Javits Convention Center for Wired magazine's third annual NextFest, and you'll understandably feel like you've plunged into an issue of Wired. NextFest, at the Javits Center...

Networked: Video, Mobile Journalism

"Michael Rosenblum, the father of the Video Journalist (VJ) movement, is launching a futuristic video news project with Verizon that ought to give the "trusted brand" crowd a shudder or three. He's assembling news gathering units (what he terms "nodes") in various cities that...

What the Recall Reveals About Segway

"The latest glitch with its flagship product shows why the company may still have trouble fulfilling its enormous expectations. The best that companies forced to deal with a product recall can hope for is that the product in question was never very popular in the first place....

Driverless Taxis of the Future: Bringing Robot Transportation to Europe

A new European Union-funded project will see the introduction of driverless Taxis at Heathrow, "cyber cars" in Rome and an automatic bus in Castellón, Spain. And that's only the beginning.

Token Booth Closings Start in April

The first nine of the 164 token booths scheduled for closing will be shut down in April. The Daily News says the first retired booths will include ones in Union Square and Penn Station, and then the remaining booths will close weekly until October. Then, 600 of the clerks...

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