Thought Innovation
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Wearable Tech Makes a Fashion Statement
When models wore Google's goggles on the runway, it signaled that the next wave of digital devices may actually go post-geek.
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Rare People Who Remember Everything
Scientists are taking a closer look at the extremely rare people who remember everything from their pasts. And yes, their brains are different.
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Why is Rem Koolhaas the World's Most Controversial Architect?
Age has not tempered the Dutch architect, who at 67 continues to shake up the cultural landscape with his provocative designs
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How the Pogo Stick Leapt From Classic Toy to Extreme Sport
Three lone inventors took the gadget that had changed little since it was invented more than 80 years ago and transformed it into a gnarly, big air machine
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Attack of the Superbugs
Gene detectives tracking a outbreak at the National Institutes of Health reminded of how much we don't know about how infections spread through a hospital
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What is the Future of College Education?
More and more top American universities are offering courses online for free. Going to college will never be the same again
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Is That a Computer in Your Shoe?
Sensors in sports shoes get all the attention, but other devices can identify you by how you walk and help Alzheimer’s patients find their way home
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Cooking With Robots
Along with motion-sensing cameras and projectors creating augmented reality, they'll likely be among the tools training chefs of the future
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Brain Science: 10 New Studies That Get Inside Your Head
This new research reveals how little we know about the brain and how it affects our daily lives
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Augmented Reality Livens up Museums
We still have to wait a bit for Google Goggles, but augmented reality is moving mainstream, even bringing museum dinosaurs to life
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Smartphone as Doctor
Some think that little computer you carry around with you is about to bring a sea change in the doctor-patient relationship. Is data power?
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Scenes From a Changing Planet
Landsat satellites have been taking photos of Earth for a long time, but only now can you watch zoomable, time-lapse images of the planet's transformation.
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The Message War
Counterterrorism strategy now includes everything from trolling on extremists' websites to studying how the brain responds to storytelling
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An Answer for Alzheimer’s?
A treatment for the disease has eluded scientists for almost two decades. But new research offers hope that they finally may be on the right path
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Can Computers Predict Crimes?
A lot of police departments hope so. They're starting to invest in software that uses algorithms to forecast where crimes are most likely to happen
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10 Ways Tech Makes Old Age Easier
With their populations aging rapidly in coming decades, many countries, including the U.S., will rely heavily on technology to take care of seniors
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Going to Extremes
As weather, from droughts to violent storms, becomes more likely, tech companies are developing tools to help us deal with the worst nature has to offer
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Temple Grandin on a New Approach for Thinking About Thinking
The famed author and advocate for people with autism looks at the differences in how the human mind operates
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Prepare to Go Underground
Upside down skyscrapers. Vacuum tubes whisking away trash. Welcome to the future of cities as they begin exploring the next urban frontier
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Robots Enter the Job Market
In some cases, they're learning to work with humans. In others, they're taking over the whole plant
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