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    Study outcome won't sway company on eye drug

    Link: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5htw1o9q...AuhVMgD92QRG482 This was first discussed in another topic... http://www.gamersforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=766.0 <div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>WASHINGTON (AP) — What does a company do when there's anecdotal evidence...
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    PSP suffering from lack of games?

    I can't think of too many great PSP games. Sure, there are some.... but the PSP has been out for a while now. There should be more than just some. Anyone know of any good PSP games that maybe I haven't heard about? I know there's going to be a Kingdom Hearts game.... I think sometime next year.
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    A robot to help around the house: Care-O-Bot

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...80710113026.htm They seem pretty smart. Lots of different technologies are incorporated. I just wonder how much they'll cost? Probably quite a lot. It'll be amazing when something like this is cheaper and available at a place like Best Buy or...
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    Favorite part of MGS4? (SPOILERS)

    My favorite part would be the "Guns of The Patriots" scene at the end of act 3. 2nd favorite.... probably REX vs RAY 3rd.... Liquid Ocelot vs. Snake (final battle of the game) :)
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    Final Destination

    http://www.youtube.com/v/O-7gmds2njg&hl=en
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    If you have Time Warner internet, then dump them now!

    <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan</span> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20080603/tc_nf/...QNiLxTPEwKs0NUE <div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per...
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    Phoenix Lander lands successfully on Mars

    http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/08052...ood-health.html Let's hope the thing finds something amazing! Micro-fossils or actual living cells would be nice!  ;D
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    Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

    Anyone have it? Want to play a game sometime?  (If you don't have it, then know that it does have online play)
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    Holographic storage: Coming in May

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=313 What? This is so... interesting! I don't completely understand it, but it's cool! It somehow uses two different lasers to, I guess, store/read holographic images? I guess it stores holograms rather than raw data?  ??? ;D
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    Robotic Minds Think Alike? Artificial cognitive system developed by researchers

    Preview... <div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>ScienceDaily (Mar. 31, 2008) � Most schoolchildren struggle to learn geometry, but they are still able to catch a ball without first calculating its parabola. Why should robots be any different? A team of European researchers...
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    Exotic World Said to Harbor 'Hot Ice' & New Super-Earth is Smallest Yet

    http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0705...ice_planet.html <div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>A Neptune-sized world in a distant solar system orbits very close to its star and might be covered with exotic forms of water not naturally found on Earth, scientists say. The bizarre...
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    Spain 40% powered by wind

    This is pretty amazing!  ;D It just proves that natural energy does work! http://www.enn.com/energy/article/33594
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    Solway Firth Spaceman

    AKA Cumberland Spaceman http://www.ufocasebook.com/1964solwayfirth.html So.... WTF's going on in this picture anyway? No one has ever been able to explain it for sure.
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    So much for freedom of speech....

    http://www.newsday.com/news/local/nassau/n...0,1085417.story Police arrested an EIGHTY YEAR OLD MAN for wearing an anti-war shirt in a mall and distributing anti-war pamphlets. The mall is to blame, not police. Companies pretty much have the "right" to suppress freedom of speech because you're...
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    Puppy-like robot and talking robot

    <span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:100%">Puppy-like robot</span> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/...80329122121.htm It combines two different types of AI methods... "classical rule-based artificial intelligence" "artificial neural networks" The combination of these two seems to...
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    Some Viruses Come Pre-Installed

    http://www.livescience.com/technology/0803...re-viruses.html It's mostly because of quality control issues, but.... well.... I wouldn't be surprised if half the viruses out there are created just to keep the anti-virus industry alive.  :(
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    BigDog quadraped robot

    Wiki page.... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigDog See it in action... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww It's pretty amazing! Some find it creepy too.... probably a combination of the sound and the odd, animal-like legs. And.... the video can be kinda funny at certain parts! Like when...
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    "Seeds of life" discovered near Saturn and around another star

    Seeds of Life Found Near Saturn http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/0803...yby-update.html Also recent news.... Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2008-042 It's funny.  There has been TONS of new evidence for alien life...
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    "Telepathic" phone call!

    http://technology.newscientist.com/article...athic-chat.html <div class='quotetop'></div><div class='quotemain'>A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a "voiceless" phone call for the first time.</div> WOW!  ;D This is, in a way...
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    Very small brain-like transistor created... with an added ability....

    http://www.physorg.com/news124537060.html http://www.livescience.com/technology/0803...n-machines.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/200803...computercreated Moving beyond just 1s and 0s.... to transistors with 4 settings. Not only that, but they can control nanobots! ANOTHER computer...