A new wearable projection system can turn any surface into an ad-hoc interactive touchscreen, from the palm of your hand to an entire wall. It combines a mini projector combined with a Kinect-type camera to capture a user's interaction with a virtual screen.

Today in things that are just plain neat: a mashup of 3D printing and augmented reality that is helping molecular researchers test potential drug molecules in the lab. At the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., teams are making physical models of biological viruses and then testing them using an added layer of AR wizardry.

For us common folk, $200,000 is a lot of money. It’s a very cool car, a deposit on a house or a lavish round-the-world holiday - but, for some, it’s a two-and-a-half hour trip into space. So is it worth it?

At an event in New York City, Motorola just unveiled their newest, fastest, thinnest phone, with a name you might remember fondly, or not so fondly: the Droid Razr (or as it'll be known here in Australia, simply the Motorola Razr). It'll be the thinnest phone in the world, with a huge battery and waterproof coating and all kinds of other goodies that'll probably make it seem so tough you'll forget about its extreme thinness.

The ongoing imperative to turn soldiers into "supersoldiers" has seen some pretty superhero-esque technological enhancements become real-world defense sector pursuits, like the ability to hear through walls, to fly at will, or to harness superhuman strength. Now we can add X-ray vision to that list.

Canon haveannouncedthe new king of the pile when it comes to their DSLR lineup, the Canon EOS-1D X. This isn't your daddy's DSLR camera, folks.

While the underlying science can be a little hard to follow, this video is not. A team at Tel-Aviv University has shown off a physical concept known as quantum locking, which, amongst other things, can make things 'levitate' in fixed positions in the air.

At a time when we're about to pass carbon tax legislation as law, scientists have just completed one of the first large scale studies of the carbon emission supply chain, tracking amounts of energy sources traded and consumed across 112 countries.

For those paralysed from the neck down, controlling a wheelchair even with a joystick is impossible. Researchers at Japan's Miyazaki University have created a wheelchair that solves that problem with electrodes affixed to the face. Certain motions will cause the wheelchair to move, stop, and turn--and it can all be done above the neck.

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The roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab have done some truly great things, from flying tricks with aerobatic quadcopters to programming their PR2 to read. And now this: PR2 as pooper scooper.

One of the hallmarks of living things is self-replication, the ability to make new copies of biological structures. Scientists have harnessed this ability in several ways, using DNA and viruses to organize materials for things like solar panels. But inducing artificial self-replication, which would enable new types of self-fabricating materials, has proven more difficult. Now researchers at New York University say they've taken a step in that direction, building a complex artificial system that can self-replicate.

Virgin Galactic and its thoroughly British CEO, Richard Branson, announced another milestone on their way to opening the world's first commercial spaceport: Construction is finished, and the terminal and hangar have been dedicated.

So it turns out that Einstein may not have been wrong about the universal speed limit. Not only is special relativity safe, it provides an explanation for those faster-than-light neutrinos. They're not breaking the light-speed barrier; they just appear to be, thanks to the relativistic motion of the clocks checking their speed.