Archive for November, 2006

Israel’s Bionic Hornets

In Kathleen Ann Goonan’s novel Queen City Jazz, a near future Earth has cybernetic bees that help build and rebuild society when the need arises. Buildings also build themselves with nano-technology, if I recall right. Well it’s not quite what Israel is doing, but they are building [Antara] tiny, remote controlled vehicles called RPVs (Remote […]

Chaos Review - Thur Nov 16, 2006

Dubai Airport Using Contactless CardsContactless RFID (radio frequency identification) smartcards are being used at Dubai International Airport - one of two such airports worldwide - to allow registered passengers to pass through [Contactless News] automated entry and exit gates faster. The cards are swiped at a terminal and a three second fingerprint scan is performed, […]