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Mar 31, 2015

Sony SmartWatch 3 Review

The SmartWatch 3 SWR50 is a device from Sony that lets you see notifications from your smartphone — including emails, calls, texts and even GChats — right on your wrist. The smartwatch, which runs the Android Wear operating system, also responds to voice commands, so you can ask about the...

Jan 31, 2015

Chef Bot? Robot Learns Cooking from YouTube Videos

The U.S. military may not be known for its haute cuisine, but it's developing a new robot that can learn how to cook from watching YouTube videos. Using its brainy programming, the robot is capable of recognizing how kitchen utensils are used in the videos, and can accurately replicate those...

Jan 31, 2015

Withings Activité Pop: Fitness Tracker Review

This story was updated at 1:30 p.m. ET on March 25. The Withings Activité Pop is a fitness tracker for people who don't want to look like they're wearing a fitness tracker. On the surface, the Activité Pop looks like a regular analog watch (with an old-school clock face), but...

Jan 31, 2015

What Happens When Drones Start Thinking on Their Own? (Op-Ed)

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The publication contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. You will be forgiven if you missed the Drones for Good competition held recently in Dubai. Despite drone technology really taking off commercially in the last year or so...

Sep 30, 2016

BMW's Futuristic Motorcycle Balances on Its Own

The motorcycle of the future is so smart that it could eliminate the need for protective gear, according to automaker BMW. To mark its 100th birthday, BMW has unveiled a number of concept vehicles that imagine the future of transportation. Possibly its most daring revelation, the so-called Motorrad Vision Next...

Aug 31, 2016

Shrinking Camera Tech Turned Smartphones Into Super Shooters

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone 7 last week, Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering Phil Schiller called the device's camera one of the most advanced ever put in a smartphone. Cameras in phones are so commonplace now that users take them for granted, but improving the picture-taking capabilities of...

Jul 31, 2016

Stretchy, Transparent Gaming Controller Acts Like a Second Skin

It's finally happened. Our bodies can now become one with the game controller. A stretchy, skin-like controller created by materials scientists at Seoul National University promises to turn a forearm into a touchpad for gaming, playing music, and scrawling notes that appear on a computer screen. RELATED: Pokémon Go: Top...

May 31, 2016

Hang Glider Aims to Break Long-Distance Flight Record

A daring hang glider known for his extreme stunts and record-setting flights will soon attempt to set another record for the longest open-distance flight. On or soon after Monday (June 20), Jonny Durand will attempt to glide from Zapata, in southern Texas, to Lorenzo, in northern Texas, a distance of...

Apr 30, 2016

Power Up! Exosuit Helps You Lift Heavy Loads

If you're a soldier, firefighter or even a hiker, a new soft robotic suit could one day help you carry hefty loads, a new study finds. The wearable robot, or exosuit, reduces the amount of energy used while carrying a heavy weight by about 7 percent, on average, the researchers...

Mar 31, 2016

DARPA Space Plane Could Make Daily Satellite Launches Possible

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now entering the second and third phases of its ambitious Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to make launching satellites a daily occurrence. I can tell you officially now that we have been funded by the [Obama] Administration for the next...

Feb 29, 2016

Mysterious 'Area 6' Landing Strip in Nevada Desert Baffles Experts

A mysterious, mile-long landing strip in the remote Nevada desert could be the home base for testing sensors on a top-secret fleet of drones, security experts speculate. As seen in images from Google Earth, the asphalt landing strip is in Area 6 of the Yucca Flat test site, about 12...

Oct 31, 2017

Why Private Planes Are Nearly As Deadly As Cars

A private plane claimed another life when the famous baseball pitcher Roy Halladay, age 40, died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico today (Nov. 7), according to news sources. Halladay — an eight-time All-Star who played for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies — recently got...

Oct 31, 2017

Millions, Billions, Trillions: How to Make Sense of Numbers in the News

National discussions of crucial importance to ordinary citizens – such as funding for scientific and medical research, bailouts of financial institutions and the current Republican tax proposals – inevitably involve dollar figures in the millions, billions and trillions. Unfortunately, math anxiety is widespread even among intelligent, highly educated people. Complicating...

Sep 30, 2017

Here's How Steel Wool Burns (and Why It Looks Like the Death of Krypton)

That scratchy steel wool that cleans up your grimy pans is more than hardworking; it is absolutely magnificent when lit on fire, as Reddit user ChazDodge showed in a recent video that makes the wiry, burning puff look like the death of the planet Krypton. Though it's not an explosion...

Apr 30, 2017

Elon Musk Demos Futuristic Car-Transporting Sled

See more Instead of being stuck in traffic for hours on the I-5 in Los Angeles, inventor and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk wants everyone to hop in their car and then zoom on a sled at heart-pounding speed to their destination. Musk posted a demo of one of these car-carrying...