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Laser System Designed To Track, Kill Mosquitoes. The Wired (2/11, Zetter) "Epicenter" blog reports on "a 'Death Star' laser gun" featured at this year's Technology, Entertainment and Design conference that is "designed to track and kill mosquitoes in flight." Intellectual Ventures Laboratory, which developed the device, is "currently examining how cost effective it would be to deploy the device ..

NASA, GM's Robonaut2 To Mimic Human Movement, Behavior. Technology Review (2/12) reports on the Robonaut2, a humanoid robot being developed by NASA and General Motors that "is designed to closely mimic the shape, movement, and behavior of a human." These traits "could make it ideally suited to working alongside humans, or for testing human spacecraft and living quarters, but it also presents so..

Gigabit-Per-Second Wireless Network Uses Infrared Light. Technology Review (2/11, Jonietz) reports that researchers at Penn State have developed "a wireless network that uses reflected infrared light instead of radio waves." The system "has transmitted data through the air at a speed of one gigabit per second--six to 14 times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi network." Valencia M. Joyner, an assist..

Google Announces Ultrahigh-Speed Internet Experiment. On the front page of its business section, the New York Times (2/11, B1, Helft) reports that Google yesterday announced "it would offer ultrahigh-speed Internet access in some communities in a test that could showcase the kinds of things that would be possible if the United States had faster broadband networks. In Google's vision of the futu..

Grant To Fund DNA Factory. The New York Times (2/9, Gross) reports, "With a new $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation, scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley are now designing, making and testing thousands of pieces of DNA in an Emeryville facility which hopes to standardize these parts for the first time." The goal is to give researcher..

Increasing Demand Seen For New Agricultural Technology. The Yuma (AZ) Sun (2/8, Lobeck) reported, "The search is on for new agricultural technology, with the University of Arizona's help." Experts say the movement towards increased mechanization is driven, in part, by declining interest in farm work among young people. Similarly, Mark Siemens of the University of Arizona's Yuma Agricultural Cen..

GM, NASA Join Efforts In New Robot Project. The Detroit Free Press (2/4, Higgins) reports, "After about three years of work," General Motors and NASA were scheduled to show off Thursday "the next generation of an advanced robot that is said to be faster and more dexterous than previous attempts by the agency." The robot "Robonaut2" or R2 "appears in a video to be a sleek humanoid robot and is s..

Flower Engineered To Produce Insulin. Popular Science (2/3, Fox) reports that researchers that the University of Calgary have "genetically engineered the human gene for insulin into the common plant safflower," which is capable of "producing insulin faster than traditional methods." The plant is capable of producing "2.2 pounds of insulin per acre of flowers," according to the report.

Publishers Reach Deals For iPad-Compatible Textbooks. The Wall Street Journal (2/2, Trachtenberg, Kane) reported that a number of textbook publishers have reportedly reached an agreement with software company ScrollMotion to make versions of their textbooks available electronically, with devices such as the new iPad in mind. A McGraw-Hill official said, "People have been talking about the impac..

USAF To Upgrade UAV Technologies. Flight International (2/1, Francis) reported the USAF announced it is working on upgrading UAVs to include "in-flight refueling capabilities, longer range and new strike capabilities." Additionally, UAVs are beginning to include "directed energy weapons" and the longer range capabilities mean UAVs will need more efficient engines. USAF Chief Scientist Werner Da..

Liquid Glass Spray Could Lessen Need For Cleaning Products. The UK's Telegraph (2/1, Collins) reported on a "liquid glass" spray, developed by German company Nanopool, "which forms an easy-clean coating one millionth of a millimetre thick" that "can be applied to virtually any surface to protect it against water, dirt, bacteria, heat and UV radiation." The product is primarily silicon dioxide, ..

Tobacco Plants Engineered To Grow Synthetic Solar Cells. Popular Science (1/25, Dillow) reports that researchers at UC Berkeley have "genetically programmed a virus that can infect a tobacco crop," and "causes the plant to manufacture artificial chromosphores, tiny structures that turn sunlight into high-powered electrons." This development could eventually mean "an environmentally safe manufac..

Air Force Testing Jet Fuel Made From Coal, Biomass. Technology Review (1/25, Bullis) reports, "The Air Force is testing a jet fuel made from coal and plant biomass." The process to make the fuel was "developed by Accelergy...using technology licensed from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company and the Energy and Environmental Research Center at the University of North Dakota." The process ..

Virtualization, Cloud Computing Seen As Pivotal In Server Technology Trends. In an article titled "Top 10 Server Technology Trends for the New Decade," Server Watch (1/21, Hess) reported, "Mobility and agility are the two key concepts for the new decade of computing innovation. At the epicenter of this new enabled computing trend is cloud computing," which, along with "virtualization...will cha..

Project To Map Sunflower DNA. The AP (1/22) reports on the Genomics of Sunflower project, under which "researchers envision crossbreeding a standard sunflower with the Silverleaf species out of Texas to produce a hybrid with bright yellow flowers bursting with tasty seeds and thick stalks filled with complex sugars that can be turned into ethanol." Researcher Loren Rieseberg of the University o..

NASA To Unveil Puffin Aircraft. Scientific American (1/19, Choi) reported, "A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft design, NASA's experimental one-man Puffin could show just how much electric propulsion can transform our ideas of flight. It looks like nothing less than a flying suit or a jet pack with a cockpit." The aircraft, which will be officially unveiled on January 20, is being developed b..

Tobacco Plants Engineered To Grow Synthetic Solar Cells. Popular Science (1/25, Dillow) reports that researchers at UC Berkeley have "genetically programmed a virus that can infect a tobacco crop," and "causes the plant to manufacture artificial chromosphores, tiny structures that turn sunlight into high-powered electrons." This development could eventually mean "an environmentally safe manufact..

Report on Haiti Devastation Cites Poor Building Practices. The San Jose Mercury News (1/27, Tribune) reports, "Haiti's construction industry is to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths in a tragedy that will repeat itself unless there are changes to building practices there," according to Eduardo Fierro, president of BFP Engineers. "In one of the first technical reports on this month's earth..

Indonesian Test Rocket Crashes Into Prawn Farm. The Jakarta Globe (1/28) reports an Indonesian test rocket "took a rather less lofty trajectory," than was intended, "missing its target and plunging into a prawn farm." Officials blamed poor weather for the crash, with State Ministry of Research and Technology spokesman Wawan Bayu saying, "The weather was unfriendly. ... The wind was strong." He a..

Researchers Using 3D Graphics Chips To Improve Speed Of Medical Imaging. Computerworld (1/28, Mearian) reports that researchers from Northeastern University and Massachusetts General Hospital "have taken a cue from the gaming industry by using 3D video graphics chips to develop a parallel software platform that can speed the processing times, in this case for medical digital imaging, by 10 to 1..