Smart Takes
Stronger than steel, lightweight fiber helps lift California bridge
California officials are using a fiber that's 15 times stronger than steel but light enough to float to assemble a bridge between San Francisco and Oakland.
Business Brains
Caterpillar spinout targets environmental metamorphosis for factories
By maintaining applied manufacturing equipment and systems more proactively, ATS aims to improve corporate sustainability credentials for big manufacturers.
Pure Genius
Hospital tech: robots in the pharmacy and barcodes on the patients
After more than a year in the works, NYU Langone Medical Center launched last month a new, robot-assisted pharmacy. One of about two dozen in the nation, the pharmacy provides a glimpse into the hospital of the future.
Intelligent Energy
EV range anxiety? Go to Cracker Barrel
Cracker Barrel and ECOtality team up to charge electric vehicles at 24 roadside restaurants in Tennessee. Will comfort food make Americans more comfy with EVs?
Thinking Tech
What the DoD’s PlayStation-powered Condor Cluster means for the future of supercomputing
A chat with Mark Barnell, one of the men behind the DoD's powerful new Condor Cluster, a supercomputer built from 1760 gaming consoles, about the PlayStation 3, distributed computing and the (possible) next big thing in supercomputers: smartphone processors.
Science Scope
Learn the secrets to building a quadrotor helicopter, according to a Kinect hacker
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley show of their quadrotor helicopter and give SmartPlanet an exclusive look at what it takes to hack Microsoft's Kinect.
Rethinking Healthcare
Why swine flu spared the very young and the very old
Scientists have sussed out how the H1N1 pandemic struck mostly the youthful, middle-aged population with the healthiest immune systems.
Smart Video
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- IBM announces its agreement with Drawbase Software to enhance its capabilities around smarter buildings management
- Business continuity and resiliency services from IBM - Helping business stay in business
- Cloud Security Guidance: IBM recommendations for the implementation of cloud security
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