Star Trek Warp Drive -- Coming Soon to Your Auto Dealer...

Two physicists have a devised a new scheme to travel faster than the speed of light.

In the long running television series created by Gene Roddenberry, the warp drive was invented by Zefram Cochrane, who began his epic project in 2053 in Bozeman, Montana. Now Dr Gerald Cleaver, associate professor of physics at Baylor, and Richard Obousy have come up with a new twist on an existing idea to produce a warp drive that they believe can travel faster than the speed of light, without breaking the laws of physics. Click here for the rest.

Sign me up for the first ship. Perhaps I'll name it Serenity and find me a crew, some work and keep flying.

Japan's Robot for Lonely Men

More and more robots for lovin' instead of fightin'. What's up with that? I want Terminators, Sentinels, Decepticons, et cetera, not Weird Science.

A Japanese firm has produced a 38 cm (15 inch) tall robotic girlfriend that kisses on command, to go on sale in September for around US$175, with a target market of lonely adult men. Using her infrared sensors and battery power, the diminutive damsel named "EMA" puckers up for nearby human heads, entering what designers call its "love mode".

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Experts Unveil 'Cloak of Silence'

I wish the device had been available when I was in college. Supposedly, this invention makes something completely 'sound proof.'

Scientists have shown off the blueprint for an "acoustic cloak", which could make objects impervious to sound waves.

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