This is a robot

I wonder what other tech projects Japan is cooking up that don't make prime-time outside of its borders.

Too Cool

The scientists who were involved in the "Star Wars" missile defense program are working to commercialize the technology to kill mosquitoes to stop malaria. Nice.

NASA Gets it Right

Finally, something people care about. NASA is launching a space telescope that will try to find other earth-like planets by detecting when a planet crosses in front of the star that anchors it into a solar system.

Social Networking Hits Argentina

Since I can remember, I've been traveling to Argentina to visit my family there. Something that has always struck me is how far behind the technology always was. When computers were already ubiquitous in the US, they were still a novelty there. I can still recall black and white TVs being widespread, etc...

In the past two weeks, I've been flooded with social networking invitations from my generation (not surprising), but also my parent's generation which is interesting. They seem to have a lot more adoption there among the baby-boomers than here in the US. It feels a little odd still, but I guess that that was all going to hit South America at some point.