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"Within a few years we will see the first true prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds," Worden said. this sounds to me a bit too much like Pete Worden :-) but I really like this one :-) One of those billionaires might be Google's Larry Page, who is keenly interested in space travel and NASA Ames's research. "Larry asked me a couple weeks ago how much it would cost to send people one way to Mars and I told him $10 billion, and his response was, 'Can you get it down to 1 or 2 billion?,'" Worden told the Long Now audience. "So now we're starting to get a little argument over the price."

nice ....

"which raises the possibility - theoretically at least - that the machine could, with some modifications, build a copy of itself." - very interesting way to say that the machine can't build a copy of itself... But generally, this is ubercool :-) When you're getting one?

we should have built a rep-rap

"This means that tweets about Lady Gaga's lingerie can help someone debugging Perl code. (Or a tweet about Perl code may help Lady Gaga's underwear stylist.) "

looks kinda cool, could help make things like Layar easier...

I forwarded the link to my experimental colleagues and here is the comment from Sergei (the master himself:) "this is what Igor has been doing - an array of plasmonic nanocables. This basically works as a wire-medium slab. All their epsilon and mu are rubbish." * If Sergei is as strict as in this comment, then it IS rubbish. He's not one of the notorious complainer (as e.g. myself.) * Please DO NOT FORWARD this to anybody else, Sergei's comment is NOT FOR PUBLIC USE!

UPDATE: I had a short chat with Sergei and Pekka, Sergei noticed that there is an increasing number of papers on metamaterials, especially in Nature and Science, which are simply wrong, this one being an example. * The idea is based on a very well known effect of wired media. What appears to be interesting about this paper is that they manage to make an optical analogue with aparently low losses. This could be interesting. * The whole interpretation as NIM, "wrong" refraction etc. is total nonsense.

wow, good to know ! But for the privacy you should be aware that this is a public group, so anyone has access to our comments i think !

well not many new things here but an interesting point of view

Forget about cube-sats, this is the low cost version of your personal spying device...

Bio-inspired robots. Cockroaches are also in.

somehow don't like this guy ...

boston dynamics again, kinda scary again.

Researchers at IBM have made a significant breakthrough in their quest to combine DNA strands with conventional lithographic techniques to create tiny circuit boards.

wow!!!

good luck!!

smart ...