orignal - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Flying Car (Score 5, Insightful) 712

by orignal on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @08:47AM (#29283931) Attached to: Has the Rate of Technical Progress Slowed?

What about stem cell research? Growing back teeth, nerve tissue. Maybe we should look at more than gizmos, cars and electronics. Biotechnologies have advanced by great leaps in the last decade.

Tech advances do not need to be consumable goods...

Comment: Cool! (Score 1) 313

by orignal on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @03:00PM (#28626645) Attached to: Can Urine Rescue Hydrogen-Powered Cars?

So now there is an excuse to drive my car when I'm completely pissed!

Comment: Where will the Americans stop??? (Score 2, Funny) 376

by orignal on Tuesday June 16, 2009 @02:12PM (#28350953) Attached to: NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice

Foreign countries are not good enough to bomb anymore?

Headband Gives Wearer "Sixth-Sense" 234

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @03:32PM
from the use-the-force dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist reports on a headband developed at the University of Tokyo that allows the wearer to feel their surroundings at a distance — as if they had cats whiskers. Infrared sensors positioned around the headband vibrate to signal when and where an object is close. There are also a few great videos of people using it to dodge stuff while blindfolded."