Science

Beat the flu by working remotely

Free remote-access and video-chat services let you keep in touch with the office without risking—or spreading—infection.

Originally posted at Workers’ Edge

Just in time for Halloween: High-tech graveyards

Only the Japanese could combine a cemetery and a jukebox and make it OK.

Real live mouse navigates Quake 2

Scientists strap mouse to trackball-like contraption to study its neurons. The first virtual maze? Derived from a Quake 2 level.

Robotic arm reaches out to kids with motor deficit

High-tech system lets children with coordination problems practice therapist-prescribed exercises using an interactive desktop system.

Wheeled ‘Cyclops’ bot offers insight into blind

Caltech researchers are working on a remote-controlled rover with an onboard camera that could deliver some very useful data about how the visually impaired see the world.

Space-inspired quilts perfect for chilly geeks

Artist Jimmy McBride’s quilts draw inspiration from astronomy and sci-fi movies–a mixture of real science and imagination.

Monocopter design takes cues from maple seeds

What some helicopters do with two or more blades this one does with just one–and it’s inspired by nature’s spiraling maple seed.

NASA iPhone app full of surprises for space geeks

The new, free app provides pictures, video, Twitter feeds, countdown clocks, and a wealth of other information for fans of NASA.

Originally posted at Geek Gestalt

Man fakes moon landing in own garage for $800

I’m serious, people: this Brit shows it was all a hoax!

Space Station IT: High technology

We burrow under the ISS’ metal skin and siphon out its most interesting specifications, like some kind of star-hopping alien data vampires. But without the plutonium-coated fangs.