Profile: Kenny Greenberg
This neon wizard combines art and engineering
“Seven or Never”: Emerging Technology’s Seven-Year Odyssey
The Nanoclast looks back to see where the technologies it's covered in the past are at today
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Innovations, Profound and Whimsical, Compete in Stanford Challenge
Better land mine detection, tools for long distance touch among the hardware innovations that competed for prize money this week at Stanford.
Nanotube Supply Glut Claims First Victim
Bayer Material Science closes carbon nanotube production to focus on core business
Kuka Robot Competition Offers 20,000-Euro Award
The German company is organizing a competition based on its youBot robot
Hardware Startups: The Class of 2013 Launches at Haxlr8r
Autonomous personal drone helicopters, smart handlebars, and electrical-circuit building blocks among the products about to hit market
The Future of the Assembly Line
The assembly line was invented 100 years ago. It’s time to invent the disassembly line
From STEM to STEAM: A Carnival Ride Into Engineering
Will adding art and play engage a new generation of scientists and engineers?
Time To Make Plans For June’s National Day of Civic Hacking
They may look like block parties, but these June 1-2 hackathons around the country aim to do some real work for good.
IEEE Spectrum's New Web Site
Snack on content all day long or dive deep into your favorite topics
A Social Network for Emergency Notifications
Canadian start-up ePACT’s dedicated system keeps organizations connected in emergencies
The Troubled Life of Patent No. 6,456,841
Tracing the tortured legal trail of a simple smartphone patent
An Eye Tracker in Every Smartphone?
Eye Tribe wants to make eye tracking cheap and easy—as long as you don’t wear bifocals
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Blunt Talk For Would Be Entrepreneurs from Demo Panelists
Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank and other startup veterans praise failure, pan business plans
Nanosilver Not Harmful to Water Supply
Swiss research demonstrates that what little nanosilver reaches our water supply quickly turns into relatively safe silver sulfide salt
Altia Systems Has a Fix for Low-Cost Video Conferencing
The $600 PanaCast puck may take some of the pain out of video conferencing
3-D Printing Movie Props
CGI isn’t the only tech on the digital frontier of special effects
Plasma Ring Experiment Offers New Path for Fusion Power
Self-contained plasma rings could enable new fusion power experiments and energy storage
Demo Mobile Conference Embraces The Internet Of Things
And a Pittsburgh design lab's new tool makes it simple to connect all those things together
Caveat Researcher: Open Access Spawns ‘Predatory Journals’
Hundreds of journals exist to squeeze author fees out of unsuspecting researchers
Will the Sequester Derail U.S. Nanotech R&D?
A top nanotechnology scientist believes even small budget cuts will have a large impact
Tesla News and Renewable Energy From Rising Ships
Tesla will pay back loan sooner but release next car model later and a San Francisco company wants to run the city on ship-power; plus, communicating with your car's computer
Telecommuting and Yahoo's Desperate Need for Innovation
Management expert John Sullivan says Yahoo is right to end telecommuting
Start-up Profile: Tactus Technology
This CES darling adds tactile feedback to virtual keyboards
Weekly Tek-Wrap: Fukushima Tagging of Tuna, and More
A city goes carbon neutral, Goldie Blox takes on American Girl, and news from Innovation Day at Xerox Corp.’s Parc Inc.
Kinect + Brain Scan = Augmented Reality for Neurosurgeons
Microsoft researchers demo a system that creates 3D models of brain scans using the new Kinect Fusion API
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Steve Mann’s Better Version of Reality
His vision systems have been mediating and augmenting reality for three decades
Genome to Go
It’s already possible to have your own genome sequenced. But personalized medicine based on sequencing still has a way to go
Are Boeing's Battery Difficulties Part of a Much Bigger Problem?
Seventy percent of the Dreamliner is preassembled by a tiered system of subcontractors that Boeing has never used before
A Dumb 3-D Printer is a Million-Dollar Idea
Smart 3-D printers are capturing the public’s imagination, but a couple of robotics engineers think there is still room for a dumb one.