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MP3 Chris Watkins spoke to me about the Appropedia project to make information about sustainable technology freely available where-ever its needed.

MP3 After 35 years of neglect, there a new race to the moon. A look at who is going, and why.

MP3 I spoke with Professor Barry Vercoe of MIT Media Labs about the One Laptop Per Child Foundation at the Sydney Mechanic's School of the Arts. In the background you hear the delighted cries of people playing with the XO laptops.

MP3 Are you chocolate desiring or chocolate indifferent? The reason lies in your guts.

MP3 In Australia, the Federal government plans to set companies policing employees email, and in NSW the State government encourages schools to scan children's fingerprints for roll-call every day.

MP3 Goat experiments by the British Navy and the US Army, and the link to Uri Geller through Jon Ronson's wonderful book The Men Who Stare at Goats Story by Ian Woolf, questions by Patrick Rubie.

MP3 Desktop-sized factories that can print any 3D design out of plastic, including the parts to make another 3D printer. Welcome to the world of the replicating rapid prototyping machine or RepRap. Anyone can have a factory! Disruptive technology, coming your way.

Get a DVD beamed into your phone in seconds! MP3 NICTA have invented a 5 gigabit per second wireless meshing network chip that will sell for only $10. Soon every gadget will talk with all its friends.

MP3 A game controller reads your mind, Make a circuit to entrain your brain and help you become a lucid dreamer, Use Memory Goggles to record, index and search what you've seen.

Ian Woolf interviews Lachlan Hardy about freeing the net in Australia with Meraki wireless meshing routers. Sharing is caring! MP3 Read more on Lachlan's blog http://lachstock.com.au

Pssst, wanna share some internet? If you like your internet cheap, fast, and out of control; then wireless meshing networks might be for you. MP3 Ian Woolf finds that if we all bring a pump and a pipe to the party, then the data can flow like beer. Plug in and turn on.

MP3 I interview Dr Will Uther about his robots that drive cars in traffic. His team from the National ICT Australia, the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, the University of Technology, Sydney, and the University of California, Berkeley are competing in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge. This is a competition run by the American military for cars driving themselves in traffic.

MP3 The US military are testing systems that bypass the soldier's judgement and act before he realizes that his subconscious has spotted a potential target. Cognitive Threat Warning Systems, will scan the soldier's brain as if he were just a zombie computer targeting system.

MP3 Clean electricity and clean water, made from beer. A pilot power plant has opened where microbes feeding on waste water from a brewery are making electricity as they clean the water. Waste not, want not!

MP3 The Santa Claus Conspiracy puzzled me, it was so blatant...

MP3 Smart Dust made of robots 1 millimeter long with a cluster of sensors and radio networking are the ultimate surveillance tool. Now they have legs!

MP3 Viral Confections are Herpes viruses accurately moulded in chocolate.

MP3 Brain implants to help your memory. Ted Berger has a device that takes analogue signals from the brain, converts them to digital, processes the signals, and then outputs in the brains own language to neurons on the other side.

Play now Coal is too valuable to burn, because it is the feedstock of the chemical industry. Solar power is now as cheap as dirty coal, so why burn any? There are three pilot solar power stations in Australia, each using different technology, but all as cheap as dirty coal, and MUCH cheaper than any hypothetical "clean coal" could ever be. Solar power can save the coal industry if they act rationally. For video about the solar power stations have a look at the ABC Four Corners energy special, and they have good documentation about renewable energy in Australia

Play now The US military have trained bees to save lives on the Iraq battlefield.

Play now Imagine if semen contained mind-altering and addicting chemical signals that made you feel good! Suggestive research that the neurotransmitters are absorbed quickly and act on the brain for hours.

Play now The stuff we can't see is revealing itself by bending light from what we can see. Maybe there really is Dark matter?

Play now Can winning a Nobel Prize help you live longer?

Play now Termites do your head in! They emit poisonous naphthalene gas to keep other insects away from them. The termite toxin can cause headaches and nausea in small doses. The neurotoxin leads to organ failure in extreme cases.

Play Now Liquid electricity may be the car fuel of the future. You can charge the liquid up with power, and then transport it by tanker to a filling station. Cars can empty their discharged liquid and refill with charged up liquid and drive using pollution-free electrical power. Pollution-producing petrol is replaced by elegant electricity.

The Smart Semen-Triggered Vaginal Microbicidal Vehicle works a little like Vaginal Contraceptive Gel, except that it also prevents AIDS.

Solar cells that are 8 times more efficient for half the cost, and lithium batteries to store 4 times more of the power they generate.

If some of your brain works in binary, is it more like a digital computer than we thought?

ID Card - is Big Brother stalking you? subscribe to Diffusion Diffusion identity card special edition Synthetic interview with Anna Johnston about privacy concerns by Anonymous Voice, Aras Vaichas speaks with Ian Woolf about RFID technologies, Interview with Professor Graham Greenleaf about Access and Cyberlaw by Anonymous Voice Who is Anonymous Voice? Can you catch the hidden messages masked in the music? Will the Access Card bill be passed into Identity Card legislation without any debate at all?