Science & Technology – Week of 8.12.12

Army Tests Spy Blimp Over NJ
NBC 10 August 2012
Manufacturer Northrop Grumman says the 302-foot long airship is designed to be a high altitude observation platform.

Spaceport America: Not Just ‘Rich People in Space’
CNET 1 May 2012
Crave’s Nerdy New Mexico series strolls the 10,000-foot-long runway at Spaceport America.

Revealed: 64 Drone Bases on American Soil
Wired 13 June 2012
We like to think of the drone war as something far away, fought in the deserts of Yemen or the mountains of Afghanistan.

Man Makes Bike Out of Cardboard.
Wimp.com

Massive-Scale Online Collaboration
BBC 18 June 2012
“The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?”

Flying Cars: Grounded Reality or Ready For Take Off?
BBC 14 August 2012
Despite centuries of promise, flying cars remain largely confined to films and fiction.

Micro-Drones: The New Face of Cutting-Edge Warfare
New Scientist 23 July 2012
Drones are getting smaller and smarter, able to navigate and identify targets without GPS or human operators.

Wi-Fi Warping Wallpaper Keeps Hackers Out
Laptop 12 May 2012
If you’re concerned about hackers snooping on your home Wi-Fi network, the solution may be just a simple high-tech home decorating tip away.

Neo-Humanity: Transhumanism Will Merge Man With Machine
Activist Post 10 August 2012
Science and religion meet at the intersection of a $5 million grant gifted to UC Riverside in Pennsylvania.

Cyborg America: Inside the Strange New World of Basement Body Hackers
The Verge 8 August 2012
Gone are Microsoft’s windows into the digital world, replaced by a union of man and machine: The iPhone or Android.