MIT researchers have engineered a massively-improved broadband radio chip that’s faster than any of its predecessors, while consuming 100 times less energy—drawing on inspiration from the structure of the human ear. The ‘RF Cochlea’ is built to mimic much of the functionality of the human cochlea—a spiral-shaped cavity deep inside the inner ear—and the MIT team hope it will prove powerful and flexible enough to replace the chips inside common radio wave-using devices such as cellphones and wireless routers. Rather than trying to trump the incredibly functionality of the human body, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science Rahul [...]

The movies aren’t usually considered a sensory experience, despite several historical attempts at scented cinema dating back to 1916. But soon you may be able to actually feel what’s going on in the movies – perhaps a Michael Bay explosion or an Angelina Jolie drop kick…or even better, to experience a real emotional reaction based not just on what you’re seeing in a movie, but on on actual physical stimulus.
Researchers at Phillips Electronics just debuted a jacket lined with 64 vibration motors at the 2009 World Haptics Conference. As described by Paul Lemmens, a Philips senior scientist, the jacket is [...]

Jason Calacanis, CEO of blog network Weblogs.inc, has been wondering who the hell has been spending so much time contributing to Digg.

John Jantsch at DTM managed to grab ten minutes with Jay Adelson, the CEO of Digg, and then stick it up onto the web as an audio-file/podcast. Adelson explains how Digg works, how stories get submitted, the traffic generated when stories get to the front page, and hints about the future (business, politics).
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Here are a few pics we took of the Wired Store through the windows this morning on the way to the office.