This 3d animation is the work of Dan Maas, a 19-year-old undergraduate at Cornell University enrolled in the university’s College Scholar program for independent, interdisciplinary study. Daniel Maas NASA Mars Pathfinder Animation perfectly set to “Sunspots” by Nine Inch Nails (NIN).

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Paul Crichton is a director of net-progress, a web analytic’s consultancy based in London.

He developed www.net-guide.co.uk, an accessible search engine that only lists accessible websites. net-guide was awarded ‘See it Right’ accreditation by the Royal National Institute of the Blind (RNIB). Google has since adopted a similar idea for an accessible search engine.

The Observer of London is reporting that Google might be working with HTC and mobile/telecom giant Orange to build a Google Mobile Phone, which could possibly have Google software inside the device, and would be able to do many of the web tasks smartly. The device, article speculates, could go on sale in 2008. (Of course, we would all have forgotten by then… if it doesn’t happen.)

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

In print and on the big screen we have been deluged with scenarios of robot malfunction, misuse, and outright rebellion. Robots have descended on us from outer space, escaped from top-secret laboratories, and even travelled back in time to destroy us.

With just a normal web cam and special “Podtech” software, you can turn any monitor into a gesture reading, touch-less display. Continue reading to watch a demonstration.

“Using topological depth technology, it figures out what’s the static background, and differentiates it between the changing foreground. By pinching areas within the camera’s view you section off ovals which you can use to rotate and move around the display, and the researcher said more gestures are being worked on”

Scientists have written a message into the DNA of a living organism, a breakthrough they believe could lead to a new era of organic computers capable of healing themselves if damaged. The researchers encoded Einstein’s most famous equation and most prolific year into the genome of one the hardiest strains of bacteria in the world, Bacillus subtilis. The characters “E=MC^2 1905!” were then read from the bacterium at a later date by analysing its genetic sequence.