Megadgets

Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea.

Build a viable and workable tricorder, one that has the ability to capture key health metrics and detect at least 15 different diseases, the device must also be wireless and must not weigh over 5 pounds, the person or organizations that create such a device in accordance to THESE CRITERIA  and they will be awarded the [...]

Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a “time cloak” that briefly makes an event undetectable. It’s one thing to make an object invisible, like the Romulan Cloaking device from Star Trek. But scientists have made an entire moment in time impossible to see. They have invented a time masker. Think of it as [...]

When a patient has a cavity a dentist normally uses a drill to prepare the tooth to receive a filling. The pain associated with that drill may soon become a thing of the past. Engineering researchers at the Univerity of Missouri and Nanova, inc. may have found a way to use plasma to painlessly repair [...]