Trust me... really

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/06/01/trust.hormone.ap/index.html

That could be awsome. How do I get my hands on some of that.
It's a shame you have to be a chemist these days to get ahold of anything worthwhile.

Robotic Hand picks apples.

imigrants everywhere in fear of losing their jobs

http://www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml

Grid swarms

These are a very cool use of the Gumstix computers (which I think are themselves awsome)

http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2142584362.html
http://gridswarms.essex.ac.uk/index.html

My favorite
http://cswww.essex.ac.uk/staff/owen/research.htm#The%20Flying%20Gridswarm,%20and%20the%20UltraSwarm

Mirrors reflecting mirrors!? What is this evil?

http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/dual_photography/

Watch the video and it all almost makes sense.

Build your own Robot Head

http://howtoandroid.com/HowToBuildRobotHead.html

Hello Dave

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/info-tech/mg18624961.700

You have to give Doug Lenat credit. He's been working on Cyc forever (I learned about it in my AI class) dispite the criticism.

International Waters

"a used cruise ship goes for $10 million to $300 million"

Who knew... I always wanted to have one with a bunch of hippies on it for food... oh yea and to start my own cult.

http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10959

I suppose an offshore development firm might be able to pay back the costs faster

Design process for Pill bottle

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/health/features/11700/index.html

Great (though short) walkthrough on the evolution of a better pill bottle. I particularly like the fact that they talk about the designer's 1st pass design and some of the problems with it. Though it is also interesting that they rejected some of her ideas (maybe most) not cause they were bad but because it was too hard to implement (color printers cost $$, and certifiying the non round cap for child safety would take too long)