After yesterday's article on how stem cells could create made to order human organs , NG explores how they could also lead to lost limbs being regrown.
A new iPhone app, Jibbigo, translates English-to-Spanish and back again, but does it without requiring the user to select phrases or enter them manually with the keyboard. Instead, you simply launch the $24.99 app and speak into your iPhone's microphone and the translation is played over the speaker.
Apple has released a new version of iTunes, 9.0.2. While admittedly the release has higher aspirations than messing with the Palm Pre, such as adding support for Apple TV 3.0, a new dark background option for Grid View, and additional accessibility support, it does indeed break the Pre's iTunes sync capability, as well.
According to App Shopper, a third-party site that tracks applications in Apple's App Store, while many keep using the last amount quoted by Apple as the number of apps in that repository, the App Store is nearing 100,000 apps, and should hit that number soon.
Google has announced a new service, which is being rolled out slowly, as is typical of cloud-based services. It is called OneBox, and what it aims to do, in concert with Google's music search partners MySpace (and its recently acquired iLike subsidiary) and Lala, is allow users to play limited previews and full songs in their search results.
Over the past 10 years, information technology has grown so exponentially, that no-one is now tied to a single location in order to do their work, access their emails or check the latest news.
The team of wheeled and walking robots on the ground is controlled by airships, themselves instructed by a planetary orbiter Robotic airships and satellites will fly above the surface of the distant world, commanding squadrons of wheeled rovers and floating robot boats, according to Wolfgang Fink of the California Institute of Technology .
The Pad, a 24-storey tower being built by Omniyat Properties in Dubai's Business Bay development, is unlikely to be completed on schedule according to the man who designed it.
Verizon's upcoming Droid phone, its first smartphone based on Google's Android platform, has received a date, a price, and some exciting news, as well. The date is Nov. 6th, the price is $199 (after $100 mail-in rebate), and the exciting news is that it will be the first device to have Google Maps Navigation, providing turn-by-turn voice guidance.
