Flying synchronized RC helicopters are quick and agile enough to throw a ball and then catch in a net

Swiss researchers demonstrated three robotic quadrocopters, flying in formation and tethered to a net, playing catch with a ball. The helicopters maneuver to catch balls that are tossed to them and catch them in the net. Once they catch the ball, they launch it back by flying outward and stretching the net tight.

For 1,000 lucky recipients in New York and Los Angeles, the October 5, 2012 issue of Entertainment Weekly will feature a little surprise – a page with a small LCD screen print insert used to display live tweets, as well as videos, from CW Network’s Twitter account. CW Network is using the ploy as a…

Since the receiver is the only gun part that requires a license in the United States, gun receivers that are printed at home don’t have to be registered (yes, it’s possible to 3D print a gun – gun manufacturers have used 3D printers to print gun prototype parts for years). Now it’s possible for you…

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have succeeded in obtaining and reconstructing a persons thoughts and memories. The result is a crude digital recording of the visuals occurring in the person’s head putting us one step closer to being able to record thoughts or dreams (and uploading them to YouTube).

Sharp announced a see-through solar energy panel today, designed for balcony railings, eaves, and windows. The transparent panels are constructed from laminated glass infused with photovoltaic cells and can be used to replace glass and provide shading at the same time.

In this week’s freaky physics news, scientists at Department of Energy’s Berkeley Laboratory have proposed a design for a timing crystal that runs, literally, forever – even theoretically outlasting the universe itself. They are quick to point out however, that since there is no energy output, they have not broken any perpetual motion laws. Yeah,…

Last week the Dutch gave us the world’s largest Facebook party and this week they give us the world’s largest, portable pavilion 3D printer. Those Dutch do indeed go big. The Dutch architecture firm DUS unveiled the KamerMaker, a printer they say is “the world’s first movable 3-D print pavilion”, in an open source project…

Pack your bags. Space.com reports that scientists may have found a loophole in that pesky “speed of light” limit making warp drives (drives that enable travel through space-time), as popularized in the television series Star Trek, possible after all.