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The Snark - the meanest VTOL UAV on the planet
Apart from the obvious autonomous long-range attack and surveillance capabilities, the payload and stealth aspects of the Snark make it ideal for a range of search, rescue and medical evacuation operations as the Snark can carry two fully equipped soldiers into or out of the battle zone. Clearly, under such circumstance, the Snark’s stealth qualities will be very useful. The Snark is designed to recycles its exhaust gases and consequently emits very little heat, making targeting the Snark with a heat-seeking missile very difficult.

Medical responders of the future may be 3 inches tall or less.
But, these tiny-wheeled robots - slipped into the abdomen and controlled by surgeons hundreds of kilometers away - may be giants in saving the lives of roadside accident victims and soldiers injured on the battlefield.
Each camera-carrying robot - the width of a lipstick case - would illuminate the patient's abdomen, beam back video images and carry different tools to help surgeons stop internal bleeding by clamping, clotting or cauterizing wounds.

Fujitsu concept keyboards redefine ergonomics
Fujitsu showed off some concept PCs with interesting keyboards at the WPC Expo in Tokyo, without providing a whole lot of info about what they actually do.

Tiny “Specks” for low power sensor applications
The tiny “Specks” themselves are very small sensors with computational and communications capabilities that can be embedded in various objects. They could be used as lighting and temperature sensors in buildings, placed in aircraft wings to detect failures or used to sensitise medicine bottles to ensure that people take their prescribed medication at the correct times.

Each Speck will be autonomous, with its own captive, renewable energy source. Thousands of Specks, scattered or sprayed on a person or surfaces, will collaborate in programmable computational networks called Specknets. Scientists are even considering the idea of a putting the devices in a spray-can, allowing the Specks to be sprayed onto a whatever surface they wish.

Seven Steps to Eternal Life.
A 42-year-old English biogerontologist has made his name by claiming that some people alive right now could live for 1,000 years or longer. Maybe much longer. "In 10 years, we will have proof that we can cure these seven things and therefore beat aging," says Mr. Pawelec, who spoke at the conference on "immunorejuvenation" in the elderly. "All of my mainstream colleagues will be up there saying Aubrey was right. And then the general public will believe it."

Helmet-Cam ATC-1000
Extreme sports enthusiasts can’t wait to get their hands on this one – and attach it to their helmet, arm, leg or bike! Both shock- and splash-resistant, the ATC-1000 is ready to capture challenging feats down mountain bike trails, up the skateboard ramp or across the sky on a hang glider

Wafer-Thin Colour Displays for Packaging
Colour displays may one day be used practically everywhere. And this would be possible even where it's unprofitable today for cost reasons, such as on food cartons, medicine packaging or admission tickets. At the Plastics Electronics trade fair in Frankfurt, Siemens developers exhibited extremely thin, miniature colour displays that can be printed onto paper or foil. And the displays can be produced at very low cost compared to LCD panels. The first displays will become available on the market in 2007.
The displays show information about products, or even operating instructions for devices, directly on the packaging. A pillbox, for example, could display instructions for how it should be taken and provide this information in several languages with the push of a button. Admission tickets for trade shows could indicate the booths where various exhibitors are located. It's also conceivable that small computer games will be on packages or that equipment boxes will display animations that give users step-by-step operating instructions when a button is pushed.

Although we did not find an oil reserve we did find something quite out of the ordinary.
It’s as if we are living on another planet. Our tiny group is still at a loss as to what we have found. One of the other geologists who does the 3D seismic surveys with me thinks that global warming, receding glacial levels and unseasonably high artic winds this year helped reveal ‘TM’ (the name our group has given the animal - ‘Taurus Major’- for its resemblance to a gigantic bull). We took more video and photos today as the weather was much better, but it didn’t last long. As for Polarneft, it would seem that they can’t quite figure out what to do and have asked us to not visit the site anymore due to ‘safety reasons’. Needless to say, I’m sure ‘safety’ is not the issue. Our little group plans to go back again tomorrow to record what we can, so hopefully more to come.
Be sure to watch the video!

Phone concept
The entire surface of the diminutive phone is an LCD display, which, of course, means it can change its function, from keypad to caller ID screen to playlist, at any time. And since this is a concept phone, why not get totally crazy: it includes an induction-charged battery. Just put the phone down on a special pad, and it’ll suck up the juice.

End of Light Bulbs
An accidental discovery announced this week has taken LED lighting to a new level, suggesting it could soon offer a cheaper, longer-lasting alternative to the traditional light bulb. The miniature breakthrough adds to a growing trend that is likely to eventually make Thomas Edison's bright invention obsolete.
If the new process can be developed into commercial production, light won't come just from newfangled bulbs. Quantum dot mixtures could be painted on just about anything and electrically excited to produce a rainbow of colors, including white.

The R2-D2 Case Mod
Build it: The ExtremeTech Science Fiction Case Mod Contest is long over, but that doesn't stop R2-D2 from being fashionably late. Not only does this R2-D2 case mod look incredibly like the original, but it's bundled with a P4 processor, Radeon GPU, and cooling system that would let R2 kick butt for a long period of time. Check it out...

A Fully Submersible Watercraft
A cross between Flipper and a fighter jet, the fully submersible watercraft is "designed to mimic the look and abilities" of its marine counterparts. These positively buoyant vessels use their forward momentum and the downward lift of their wings to literally fly below the water's surface. This radical departure from the typical method of sinking below the surface allows the Dolphins to achieve an unparrallelled level of freestyle performance.The idea of underwater flight was first invented by Tom Rowe who developed the concept with his amazing "Bionic-Dolphin."

New Theory: How to Make Objects Invisible
The proposal involves using plasmons -- tiny electronic excitations on the surfaces of some metals -- to cancel out the visible light or other radiation coming from an object. The idea is in an infant stage but appears not to violate any laws of physics.

Ready for Hordes of Aliens
The gun is an airsoft replica of an FN P90 and fires 6mm BBs. Pan and tilt are controlled by two hobby servos using a simple controller. Custom software track targets via a USB webcam.

Scientists build world's first single-molecule car
The nanocar consists of a chassis and axles made of well-defined organic groups with pivoting suspension and freely rotating axles. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece. The entire car measures just 3-4 nanometers across, making it slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair, by comparison, is about 80,000 nanometers in diameter.

Effectively making nuclear facilities 'invisible' to pilots who were not within visual distance
The German government has reached a secret agreement with the country's nuclear power plant operators to erect electronic anti-terror 'shields' to jam aircraft navigational equipment, according to a report Friday.

$65-$70 Million For Exclusive Rights
Spike TV has engineered the biggest movie purchase in the net's 22-year history, ponying up between $65 million and $70 million for a six-year exclusive deal covering all six of Lucasfilm's "Star Wars" movies, reports Variety.

Transparent Aluminum
Air Force testing new transparent armor. ALONtm is a ceramic compound with a high compressive strength and durability. When polished, it is the premier transparent armor for use in armored vehicle

Star Trek Shields & Cloaking
Space-borne protective energy systems, like the deflector shields on the fictional starship U.S.S. Voyager, are on the drawing board of real-world scientists.

Force Field mistakenly created at 3M
Tremendous static charge generation on a plastic web causes unique physical phenomena and special problems. Solution was simple and cost effective.

Scientific American: The Mysteries of Mass [ PHYSICS ]
Physicists are hunting for an elusive particle that would reveal the presence of a new kind of field that permeates all of reality. Finding that Higgs field will give us a more complete understanding about how the universe works