It hovers! It spins! It spies! The Draganflyer III gyro-stabilised helicopter with optional Eyecam video system is the highest tech flying toy in the world
Ever wanted to keep stray dogs or neighbours from trampling your backyard, but just couldn’t find the system to really deter them? Why not build a bi-polar Tesla Coil system — via Slashdot
Mac users are having trouble applying for an Australian Business Number online, forcing them to use snail-mail to register their business
The remarkable toolmaking talent of a New Caledonian crow called Betty has challenged the chimpanzee’s reputation as the most proficient toolmaker in the animal world. The bird, one of two kept at Oxford University’s zoology field station, fashioned a hook from an ordinary piece of wire — something even a chimp cannot manage
After more than a decade of trying, Australian researchers have created a highly infectious virus that could wipe out the country’s rabbit pests by making them sterile
Kramut Kennels — the breeders of one of my beasties, currently have Siberian Husky pups on the ground. They will be available to be taken home mid October
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have put the theoretical to the test by using single silicon atoms to represent the 1s and 0s of computing. This is equivalent to storing the contents of 7,800 DVDs in one square inch of material
Hewlett-Packard is using the spraying technology developed for inkjet printers to cool chips. They have made a robot that’ll wander around data centres, detecting hot chips and hosing them down — via Slashdot
The FCC issued a record fine of nearly US$5.4 million against a company for sending junk faxes to businesses and consumers
More than 200 years after they went out of fashion in Britain, professional hermits are back in the job market. A newspaper advertisement seeking a resident hermit for the stately Shugborough Home in Staffordshire, central England, has prompted a flood of replies from men eager to ditch stressed-out modern life for a spot of peaceful cave-dwelling
Cell, a radical new processor designed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba and dubbed a supercomputer on a chip
, could enter production in 2004. The chip could end up inside the PlayStation 3, and elements of its design will be seen in future server chips from IBM
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the marketing practices of VeriSign. In recent months, the company has been hit with a spate of lawsuits accusing it of deceptive marketing practices related to its efforts to persuade rivals’ customers to shift suppliers of domain names
Japanese electronics giant Sharp will start making solar batteries in the United States from next April to help expand the small but growing part of its business
Human understanding of the laws of physics may be about to be turned upside down with the proposition that the speed of light is not a constant, as has been believed
Jakob Nielson is proposing that tactile, physical interfaces will be the next evolution in how we interact with machines
American movie, recording and software executives could be arrested if they travel to Australia, could be prohibited from entering Australia, or could be extradited to face criminal charges if Californian Democrat congressman Howard Berman’s copyright protection bill, which allows cracking of computers, passes into law
Real estate agents say location is everything, but these tenants don’t care about the neighbourhood — the worse, the better. Carnegie Mellon University is looking for property — two or more sites of 300 acres apiece — on which to test robots developed by its National Robotics Engineering Consortium. And when it comes to running robots through their paces, a house in the suburbs just won’t do
Fortnum & Mason in London’s Piccadilly — one of London’s most prestigious addresses — is looking for a chocolate buyer to travel the world, taste as much chocolate as possible and select only the best for its discerning customers
A bug in widely-used communications software could let attackers gain control of computers and authentication systems. Security researchers have warned of a flaw in communications software that could allow attackers to take over computers running Windows, Unix-based operating systems and Mac OS X, as well as Kerberos authentication systems
New York has abruptly yanked an official web site after discovering that personal data from nearly 2,000 online job applicants — including home addresses and Social Security numbers — could be viewed by anyone
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