Living heart cells drive microfluid pump

Heart cells squeeze the polymer sphere, causing it to act like a pump (Image: Royal Society of Chemistry)

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We already know that there's a PlayStation motion controller in development (and damn you Nintendo for making this crap a fad, I want to sit in a lazy pile on my sofa with a controller in my hand and not move like the good old days).

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In the future you won't use computers to design a car, the car will form from billions of tiny computers that arrange themselves into anything you want. The physical and computational world will merge. Hope you're ready. More Articles

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Top astronomers and other planetary scientists will step into the ring this month to duke it out over a basic, yet controversial, question: What is a planet? More Articles

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Sphere: Microsoft's Saving Grace That They Won't Use

A while ago, Microsoft announced a technology called Surface. This was a table-sized computer that had a multitouch screen on top. You could do some genuinely cool stuff with it: "pull" photos out of a Bluetooth- or Wifi-enabled digital camera and "drag" them into your cellphone.

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A group of academics will be among the first people outside Microsoft to see Sphere, a spherical surface computer developed by Microsoft Research.

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The unusual balls, discussed last week at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference in France, were created as an answer to the "kilogram problem".

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Whether water sits in a lake or a glass of water, Earth's gravity pulls the liquid downward into the shape of the container it's in.

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IN 1948, Bethlehem was a largely Christian community, with Christians comprising an estimated 85 percent of the population. Today, that percentage has shrunk to something closer to 12 per cent.

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Instead of being perfectly round like a globe, the universe might be a bit stretched in shape like a pill.

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In a 1904 paper, the French mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré stated that a sphere is a sphere is a sphere. You can punch, kick and throw it; you can inflate or deflate it; you can mold the sphere into another shape.

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A new type of robot balances on a ball rather than relying on legs or wheels.

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Hundreds of robotic spheres that could one day explore planets like Mars are to be tested out by scientists back on Earth.

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A new blog search engine has launched.

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Individual (Newsvine) Blogs Doomed To Failure?

Team up, find a niche, be alert with good content. "Great content is out there, but it's often drowned in a sea of garbage," but Sphere "offers good results uncluttered by the blogorrhea," says Chris Sherman, the executive editor of Search Engine Watch.

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