Quantum encryption is about to make life much more difficult for Internet spies. Not only will it make data uncrackable, the new technology also speeds up the increasingly slow process of sending coded messages over the Internet.
The development of a fuel-powered miniature engine, touted as a more efficient and longer lasting alternative for the battery, may push the Energizer Bunny to the unemployment lines.
Researchers are developing a prototype of the world's first fully autonomous robot. The 'SlugBot' will be hunt down slugs, over 100 an hour, and use their rotting bodies to generate electricity.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are aiming to create biologically inspired 'roboflies' -- tiny, inexpensive, quick-moving robots they can send into space for planetary exploration.