Bendable, Inexpensive Graphene Micro-Supercapacitors

http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/ucla-researchers-develop-new-technique-243553.aspx

Watson's New Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/technology/ibm-exploring-new-feats-for-watson.html?_r=0

Software for Designing at the Nanoscale

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/for-autodesk-a-step-into-a-nanoscale-world/

Nanotubes to Take Over for Silicon in a Decade

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/technology/nanotubes-seen-as-an-alternative-to-silicon-circuits.html

3D Printing Developing Faster Than Expected

Nice:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/disruptions-3-d-printing-is-on-the-fast-track/

Virtual Reality Gaming is Finally Becoming Affordable

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/technology/oculus-rift-headset-aims-for-affordable-virtual-reality.html?_r=0

Another Thin Film Solar Breakthrough

They keep coming...so when are we going to hit the tipping point and open the floodgates?

http://actu.epfl.ch/news/new-world-record-efficiency-for-thin-film-silicon-/

Robot That Moves by Internal Explosions

A robot that's powered by lighting its own farts. That's just wrong....

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2013/02/three-legged-robot-uses-exploding-body-to-jump.html?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2012-1102-GLOBAL|threeleggedrobot&utm_medium=NLC&utm_source=NSNS&utm_content=threeleggedrobot

Robots Evolve Better Movement With Evolving Brains

http://www.fastcompany.com/3005313/evolved-brains-robots-creep-closer-animal-learning

British Mini-Drones

As the iPod Shuffle is to boom boxes, so is the Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle to the Reaper:

http://news.sky.com/story/1047004/mini-drones-army-deploys-tiny-helicopters

Raging (Again) Against the Machines

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/sunday-review/raging-again-against-the-robots.html?src=recg

It's interesting that Europe and Japan don't share the US's robot Armageddon stories. I personally like the stories because they're great adventure, not because I fear the consequence of robots.

First artificial enzyme created by evolution in a test tube

http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2013/UR_CONTENT_429344.html