Create App To Show Driver’s MPG & Win $25,000 In Ford Personalized Fuel-Efficiency App Challenge!

Create useful MPG-displaying app, win big money!Honestly, I have no idea how many miles my car gets to the gallon.
Hopefully one of you software geniuses can collaborate with Ford to
build a simple app to show me just how efficient my Taurus is.

3D Printers Unite For Goodwill & Rad 3D Printing Tools Via Printers for Peace Contest

Win Cool 3D printer stuff from Printers for Peace ContestThe concept of personal 3D printers has spread like wildfire, and Michigan Tech wants to make sure that the first things that people think of when the innovative product making platform is mentioned include harmony, joy and other peaceful goodies. 

Brain Powered Robots Coming to A Mind Near You

A new team, of international scope, is working on a plan that is truly science fiction inspired. The team, which is both French and Japanese, is working to make robots that can be controlled with the human brain. The robots, which are still in the reserach, use blood flow to detect brain activity.

Microsoft Contest For Southeast Asian Businesses To Upgrade From Windows XP, Globally Ends Support For XP In 2014

Microsoft will pull support for Windows XP in 2014, hurry up and upgrade!Are you still using Windows XP as your personal or business operating
system? It’s 2013, for goodness sake! You’d better upgrade before it’s
too late…

How To Keep Watch Over Everyone And Everything, From Anywhere

What happens when you take a standard home video camera and enable it to
a customized video and alarm management platform built from the ground
up?. You get an easy-to-install, souped-up home surveillance system
offering a boatload of features that’ll help you keep an eye on people,
things, and pets. Check it
out and see for yourself.

Simply Clearer: The Lucid 2 Keeps It Transparent

The LG Lucid 2An advanced smartphone simply isn’t for every user. That’s where LG’s Lucid 2 comes in. You get all the features of a modern smartphone, but with a simpler interface that should be very attractive for new smartphone users.

US Asks for Killer Robot Ban

A look how how the UN is hoping to prevent killer robots from making it onto the battle field. Following up after a recent report on the potential of killer robots on the fields of war, the US is asking all nations to take on a willing ban of the use of killer bots due to legal and ethical issues that surround the use of the robots in battle.

Robots Evolve!

Nick Cheney, a current candidate for a PhD at Cornell University, has shown off some pretty cool research in robotics recently. He applied the idea of evolution to the bots. A single bot, which was fairly generic, was able to reproduce into several generations of more effective models. By using breeding to respond to a single selective pressure. 

Robot Octopus Swims Like Biological Counterpart

A new octopus that is not biological swims the same way that a real one would. The bot, which was shown off at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), which takes place annually in Karlsruhe, Germany showed off the robot in a tank in order to demonstrate the swimming motion.

HGST Travelstar 5K1500 Notebook Drive: 1.5TB in Slim 9.5mm Casing

Most laptops support hard drives of
only up to a 9.5 millimetre thickness, and before now the largest
data capacity available within that thickness was one terabyte. For
those select few who need more than that, HGST has arrived with a
solution.