Hey everyone, Just prowling through my latest edition of Popular Science, and I stumbled upon this article.  This article had to do with a advancement in the technology of law enforcement – the mechanics of the Taser evolving to more and more weapons to replace the actual handguns and pistols that many police officers use. [...]

Merry Christmas everyone. It sounds like a lot of people have gotten the Vivus the Robot kit for Christmas and are enjoying it. I’m working on redoing the BW Science Labs website, and will be moving from Blogger to the WordPress platform to integrate the store and blog. Unfortunately this also involves the less fun [...]

I’ve survived the first day of final exams, 2 down and 4 more to go! Here’s an interesting project called The Lumen, a 3D display that adds depth to 2D images. The neatest part is how they get each little pixel up and down; they use a wires made of “shape memory allow” that expand [...]

Writing after a break is always tough, I take the “slowly get back into the swing” method. For the last few weeks I’ve been exchanging emails with an out of country graphic design firm. I had hired them to make the new BW Science Labs logo. It’s been a frustrating last few weeks. That’s what [...]

I’ve been following Waterloo Labs for a while now (they even commented on the lecture I gave on passion and science last year), and now it seems they’re doing pretty darn well for themselves. They were recently on BBC radio and a variety of blogs (now this one). Their most recent project is a car [...]