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Solo inventors compete at invention show
17:23 21 October 2009 | 1 comment
See some of the innovative ideas battling for awards and recognition at the British Invention Show, judged by New Scientist
Light switch could boost network speeds
10:39 21 October 2009 | 4 comments
An all-optical switch could boost the performance of the plastic optical fibres widely tipped for use in high-speed communications networks
Innovation: You Facebook, you tweet – now lifelog
11:59 20 October 2009 | 31 comments
News that a wearable always-on camera is coming to the mass market heralds the lifelogging era – but we're already closer to it than you might think
Hydrogen muscle silences the domestic robot
FEATURE: 10:29 20 October 2009 | 11 comments
A chemical mechanism for the noiseless flexing of artificial muscles could be used to make unintrusive robot servants
$500,000 treasure dug up in lunar soil
14:57 19 October 2009 | 8 comments
For the first time a robot labourer has dug enough simulated lunar soil to win NASA's annual prize
The colourful promises of electronic paper
FEATURE: 11:03 19 October 2009 | 36 comments
E-readers are sure to be a popular present this Christmas – so why are they all in black and white, and where's the video?
Smart GPS tags track sunfish
NEWS: 11:00 18 October 2009 | 13 comments
The fish towed new low-power, depth-sensitive tags that allowed them to be tracked across the ocean for the first time
Elusive lunar plume caught on camera after all
17:44 17 October 2009 | 43 comments
A spacecraft trailing behind NASA's LCROSS impactor did manage to snap photos of a faint plume of ejected material – researchers are searching the data for signs of water
AVIATION
Albatross inspires ocean-skimming drones
Like the far-flying bird, low-energy scouting aircraft could exploit variations in wind speeds close to the ocean surface
CAMERAS
Cheap naked chips snap a perfect picture
Take the lid off a memory chip and you have an image sensor with the potential to be cheaper and more powerful than the one in your camera
FROM THE BLOG
Billionaire pledges $1 billion to develop green technologies
13:46 13 October 2009
George Soros has announced that he will invest $1 billion in clean energy technology to combat climate change, says Shanta Barley
Plutonium production site hosts radioactive rabbit poo
17:53 09 October 2009
The US's first plutonium production site has revealed a new surprise: radioactive jackrabbit droppings
Twisty tale of the leaked email passwords
19:10 08 October 2009
Tens of thousands of email account passwords appeared online at the start of the week, with the story developing ever since
