When robots and origami collide
A prototype robot developed at MIT can automatically fold itself into an airplane or an origami boat.
Developers at MIT are combining ultra-modern robotics with the ancient art of origami to create something that is certainly more than meets the eye: shape-shifting robots.
In a triumph for the adage "Waste not, want not", a New Zealand company is leading the way in the creation of biomaterials, or in this case, nano-fibres made from the offcuts of fish.
A woman with cancer of the trachea has survived against the odds thanks to a replacement grown from her own stem cells.
In a 1984-esque step for protective parents, the iPhone has launched Whereoscope. The app converts a child's iPhone into a device that tracks all of their to-ings and fro-ings.
Finally, more Americans may be motivated to learn sign language as the Microsoft virtual reality add-on Kinect for Xbox 360 expands to include the ability to interpret its first visual language.
Having transparency on both sides is quite different to the parents spying on the kids.
Incidentally, we're both Australian - nice to get some coverage in our home Hemisphere!
Cheers,
Mick