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Regrow Your Prostate Gland in a Mouse [Mad Science]

Friday, October 24, 2008

Using stem cells, scientists were able to grow completely new prostate glands in mice. The prostate is a gland that aids in creating and expelling semen, and is often the cause of cancer in older men (pictured is a prostate cancer cell). But now that San Francisco researchers can grow prostates in mice, will doctors [...]

Hop-on hops on Android bandwagon

Friday, October 24, 2008

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If T-Mobile’s G1 (”with Google!”) is above your budget, the next Android handset should be more far more affordable. Hop-on - a small manufacturer best known for its upcoming ‘disposable’ (£6.30) HOP 1800 mobile phone - has announced that it will be launching a sub-0 (£127) Android handset at CES in January. In [...]

Solar-powered mobile phones coming soon

Friday, October 24, 2008

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We’ll all be talking on sunshine in the years ahead, according to predictions by analysts ABI Research. It predicts that solar-powered mobile phone base stations will transform mobile communications into one of the greenest high tech industries. ABI estimates that over 335,000 base stations worldwide will be using powered by the sun by [...]

Updated: T-Mobile G1 Android Phone

Friday, October 24, 2008

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Updated: T-Mobile G1 Android Phone October 24th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in celebrities, celebrity, movies, sci fi, science fiction, star wars, television, transformers, voltron Let’s get this over with: the new T-Mobile G1 is no Apple iPhone killer. In case you were wondering, the iPhone has better applications [...]

BBC finally muzzles DOGs on HD channel

Friday, October 24, 2008

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BBC finally muzzles DOGs on HD channel October 24th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in celebrities, celebrity, movies, sci fi, science fiction, star wars, television, transformers, voltron The BBC says that it has listened to complaints about its use of Digital Oncreen Graphics (DOGs) and will remove them from [...]

Science Friday: Low Budget Edition

Friday, October 24, 2008

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In this economy, you got to look to ways to save money…so this Science Friday takes a look at some low budget science including going to space in a microcraft (if you don’t mind the claustrophobia), making buildings on the moon without water, outsourcing moon missions to India and getting your X-Rays with scotch tape. More [...]

Full colour e-readers on the way

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Samsung has unveiled what it is calling the world’s first colour carbon nanotube active matrix electrophoretic display (coloured e-paper to you and me) at a recent conference in Korea. At 14.3 inches, it’s a little large for holding on the train, but it heralds a new era of handheld newspapers and the like, with [...]

Google announces free Android apps

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Those of you that haven’t been on Mars for the last month will know that the new T-Mobile G1 Android phone is coming on 30 October, and from launch there will be 50 free apps for your mobile pleasure. Many of the free apps are the fruits of Google’s Android Developer Challenge, which was [...]

Zoostorm Fizzbook Go

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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The Zoostorm Fizzbook Go (£269 inc. VAT) is part of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative that plans to place affordable computing into the hands of predominantly under-privileged children. The Netbook platform makes perfect sense for this initiative, as it’s lightweight, compact and affordable. Taking the standard Netbook approach, you’ll ?nd [...]

Bill Gates launches new technology company

Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Bill Gates has yet again entered the shadowy world of the technology business, with the launch of bgC3, a mere four months after departing from Microsoft. The details of what the company actually does are shrouded in mystery. While TechRadar is hoping this means that Gates is re-branding himself as a real-life [...]