Ideum unveils 65-inch HD 3D multitouch wall display

Ideum unveils 65-inch HD 3D multitouch wall display: "At a whopping 234-diagonal-inches, the touchscreen display created by Microsoft and Stereolize for last year's CeBIT may well be the biggest we've seen but it's hardly practical (or cheap) enough for everyday use."

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The SpareOne mobile phone runs on a single AA battery

The SpareOne mobile phone runs on a single AA battery: "What if you could power your phone on a single AA battery? The SpareOne is a mobile phone that can to do just that. Designed as a back-up that you keep in a glovebox or emergency kit rather than a phone you keep in your pocket everyday, the SpareOne claims to deliver you up to 10 hours of talk time on one AA battery and it has an isolator that prevents current discharge so that (depending on the shelf-life of the battery you're using) it can hold charge while unused for up to a whopping 15 years."

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Last mineral thought to be unique to the Moon found in Australia

Last mineral thought to be unique to the Moon found in Australia: "When the moon-walking Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth in 1969, amongst the 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar rocks they brought with them were three minerals from Tranquility Base that were thought to be unique to the Moon or lunar and possibly Martian meteorites."

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Prototype GHOST military watercraft claims a world's first

Prototype GHOST military watercraft claims a world's first: "If you combined a stealth jet fighter and an attack helicopter and stuck them in the water, what would you get? Well, according to the folks at New Hampshire's Juliet Marine Systems (JMS), you'd get the GHOST marine platform. Privately developed for possible use by the U.S. Navy, the boat would reportedly be invisible to enemy ships' radar, while also being faster and more economical than existing military vessels. The company's big claim, however, is that GHOST is the world's first super-cavitating watercraft."

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New names dominate the Dakar Rally - MINI & Iveco take 1-2 wins

New names dominate the Dakar Rally - MINI & Iveco take 1-2 wins: "A new name dominated the Dakar Rally from start-to-finish this year - MINI. Though the race isn't over yet, the margins are such that MINI will finish with first, second and fourth place later today, and that Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel will record a record tenth Dakar Rally victory."

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BodyWave lets you control a PC with your mind - without a headset

BodyWave lets you control a PC with your mind - without a headset: "A bio-feedback armband called BodyWave is the first of its kind to measure brainwave activity through the body, not the scalp. Instead of an EEG headset recording a user's concentration level, the Bodywave reads brainwaves at the arm by measuring the electric current given off by neurons firing in the brain."

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Particle-free silver ink developed for printable electronics

Particle-free silver ink developed for printable electronics: "There's no doubt that we will soon be seeing a lot more in the way of low-cost electronic circuits that have been printed onto common, flexible materials such as plastic, paper or fabric."

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Danish Mirror House reflects its enviornment

Danish Mirror House reflects its enviornment: "Danish architectural firm MLRP has come up with a novel way to prevent graffiti and vandalism of a local town hall. By turning the outside walls into mirrors, the team successfully transformed a "drab" building into a local attraction that is hopefully resistant to future graffiti attempts."

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Solar panels keep greenhouses cooler in summer, let the sun through in winter

Solar panels keep greenhouses cooler in summer, let the sun through in winter: "Spain's ULMA Agrícola consortium and Tecnalia research center have developed a new type of photovoltaic solar panel for greenhouses that can generate electricity without an adverse effect on the crops grown within, while additionally providing cooling in summer. "

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Hands on with the Nokia Lumia 900 at CES

Hands on with the Nokia Lumia 900 at CES: "More from CES 2012, Sin City, where we've briefly had a chance to get familiar with the Nokia Lumia 900, the Finnish corporation's sacrificial offering at the increasingly cluttered LTE altar to the gods of 4G. The Windows smartphone features a large 4.3-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 8-megapixel camera with a wide-angle Carl Zeiss lens and seven hours of talk time, according to Nokia. First impressions? Really rather good, actually."

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Open-source project intends to advance robotic surgery

Open-source project intends to advance robotic surgery: "A couple of years ago, the Willow Garage robotics company gave ten of its PR2 robots away to deserving research groups. The idea behind the project was that these groups would use the PR2s for robotics research, then share their discoveries with each other, thus advancing the field farther than would be possible if they each had to build their own unique robots from scratch."

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Scientist closes in on creating a superlens

Scientist closes in on creating a superlens: "Some day, you may have a microscope on your smartphone camera that's as powerful as a scanning electron microscope. If you do, it will likely be thanks to research presently being conducted by Durdu Guney, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Michigan Technological University. He is working on creating a metamaterial-based "superlens" - "

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