Fed up with all those remotes? Gather them all up and throw them away, you know you want to. You probably don’t even remember what some of them do anymore. Was it for the Tivo or the Playstation or the Blu-ray player? Never mind. The Harmony One Universal Remote supports up to 15 different devices from on unit. Logitech has thought of just about everything. Read more

A minute optical device in a silicon chip has attained the slowest light propagation on a chip to up until now. Developed by a team of researchers at UC Santa Cruz and Brigham Young University, the chip is capable reducing the speed of light by a factor of 1,200. The study was published in Nature Photonics September 5 online edition, and the November print issue. The facility to control light pulses on an integrated chip-based platform is a key step toward the realization of all-optical quantum communication networks. They hold the potential for huge improvements in ultra-low-power performance.Read more

If you think its a good idea to have your child be a gamer from day one, then you'll be glad to know there is a vast variety of games for toddlers out there that are easy on their hands, interactive, and very educational while at the same time entertaining. The old games that you use to see being played by parents with their child on their laps are games that you would not be playing now once you see the selection.Read more

The gloomy truth about modern broadband Internet technology is that not everyone has easy access to affordable broadband. People in rural areas must often resort to expensive satellite broadband if they are going to have broadband availability. The government feels that broadband should be available to all Americans, and several agencies are taking steps to ensure that this occurs in the near future.Read more

Using two hook-like claws, a motor and a tail that swings like a pendulum from a cuckoo clock, the ROCR Oscillating Climbing Robot is the first robot designed to climb efficiently and move like a human rock climbers or an ape swinging through trees. The video below explains how it works.Read more

Most materials melt when heated, on other words, they change from a solid to a liquid state. But a few nonconformist materials do the opposite, they melt as they get cooler. A team of MIT researchers has now discovered that silicon, which is the most widely used material in computer chips and solar cells, can display this bizarre property of retrograde melting if it contains high concentrations of certain metals dissolved in it. The finding could lead to applications in solar cells and other devicesRead more