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5 working brain-computer apps: Orgasms, helicopters and more

What if you could control your phone just by thinking?  The Siri hoax we reported on a few weeks back got our science team thinking about how viable brain-computer interfaces (BCI) really are. We...

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Hot for E-Teacher: 4 reasons your brain loves to learn online

Are we offloading our brains onto the web? Are programs better than teachers at knowing what we know? Do virtual badges motivate more than grades?  What is it about cartoon foxes that helps us learn to...

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New Super Bowl XLVI security gadgets: X-Rays, sewer caps and more

While Brady and Manning are tossing the pigskin inside Lucas Oil Stadium, the 44 surrounding blocks will be crawling with all kinds of new futuristic tech to make sure the fireworks, tackles, long...

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The brain science behind the iPad 3’s “Retina” display

Look at this letter: “O”. Closely. Does it look like a perfect curve? A little jagged? A little bit scraggly around the edges?  You might as well enjoy these boxy jig jags while you can because the...

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Microsoft vs.Facebook – Who got the better bang for their billion?

April 9th, 2012 will go down in shopping history as the day the software gods emptied the coffers to preserve mobile market share with two very disparate strategies. While both companies were acting in...

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The rise of mobile money is driven by the poor [Infographic]

As Google, Apple, Paypal, Mastercard and the entire banking community fights over mobile money, we decided to look to the power users to find out what the near future of monetary exchange might look...

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Hofstadter’s Law and yarn bombs: How to keep your brain from underestimating...

Do you ever wonder why you never have enough time — no matter how much planning you undertake to stay on top of things? That’s called the Planning Fallacy. We’re going to look at two solutions to this...

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