Emerging Tech

This technology is pretty amazing. Using the power of a computer with enhanced processors, "active protection" tech can actually detonate rockets before impact. Obviously, the Army's probably going crazy over this.

Wow. Lytro has just invented a camera that will change photography in a way we haven't seen since the 1800s. Even if you aren't a photography nut, this is some really brilliant technology.

Austin Whitney is paralyzed from the waist down. He graduated this spring from UC Berkley. Also, he did something doctors told him he'd never be able to do. Walk.

Shell just one upped Dick Cheney and all his fracking, they're going to build the largest man-made floating object EVER.

Last year a young Austrian man named Patrick was the first person in the world to choose to have his hand amputated, and fitted with a bionic replacement. The results are impressive.

Amazon, since April 1, has sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. While this is a milestone for e-books and Amazon, digital copies of books still only make up 14% of all books sold. Still, the fact this milestone happened this fast, has Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezoz smiling ear to ear.

Research, in an amazing twist, shows marketers and executives might not know what they're talking about when giving advice on how to make something "go viral."

Diamonds are as useful as they are beautiful. They coat our blades, sharpen our tools, and convince women way out of our league to marry us. Researchers have now managed to construct a diamond aerogel 40 times as dense as air.

Likely forged in the fires of Mordor, this feat of snack engineering has now supplanted its Oreo brethren, the double-stuffed, as the ruler of Candyland.

The United States Navy has successfully tested a laser weapon that can be used to sink small boats. Be afraid...