Cool Stuff That's Coming

Supporters say the technology is the best simulation of what goes on in human brains, and the first truly thinking machine.

Congress may crack down on businesses and people who provide false information when they register a website, proposing huge fines and extra jail time for those who violate copyright and trademark law.

"This will be bigger than the automobile market in 20 years,"

Researchers are learning that markets and power grids have much in common with plants and animals. Their findings lead to a startling conclusion: Life isn’t the exception, but the rule.

The answer is electroluminescence, a technology that generates a cool, gentle light — but not heat — when the chemical coating on plastic is electronically stimulated.

Measuring 500 feet long, with a volume of 5.2 million cubic feet, the prototype high-altitude airship, or HAA, will be 25 times larger than the Goodyear blimp.

JAPANESE telecom carriers have come up with the world’s first mobile phone that enables users to listen to calls inside their heads – by conducting sound through bone.

Until recently, however, a face lift was often the only answer. It’s an option that many people avoid, considering it can leave a woman looking like she’s perpetually riding a motorcycle at high speed.

You will carry your driver’s license, cash, credit cards and family photos on a single card (or in your cell phone) and make purchases by tapping a few buttons or waving the card in front of a reader.

"The wearable computer allows me to explore my humanity, alter my consciousness, shift my perspectives so that I can choose – any given time – to see the world in very different, often quite liberating ways,"