whiz kids

Whiz-kids the world over have been making significant progress on the development of photonic chips -- devices that "use light beams instead of electrons

Good news, aging Earthlings: a team of researchers have found a way to shock a coding patient's heart, while leaving other organs and tissues undamaged from the defibrillator.

You may or may not have noticed, but we're once again in the thick of earnings season, and today Samsung's in the hot seat.

Ready to get swept away into the wild, wild abyss known as quantum computing?

If not, we're certain there's a less mentally taxing post above or below, but for those who answered the call, researchers at the University of California Santa Cruz have a doozie to share.

We'll be straight with you -- prior to this fine day, we'd never heard of the whiz kids at Waterloo Labs, but we'll be keeping our focus locked on their initiatives from this point forward.

Why, you ask?

It's a well documented fact that the Robot Apocalypse is only a matter of weeks, moments or scores away, but today we're facing the grim reality that it may already be underway in certain sections of Germany.

If you managed to catch the last Engadget Show, you inevitably saw our own Paul Miller carve it up a bit on

Unfortunately for us, we've no certified rocket scientist on staff.

That said, we're absolutely convinced that the whiz-kids over at the University of Cincinnati are more than up to the task of improving a science that may or may not actually be useful in real things before 3028.

We've all assumed that anything's possible when dabbling in the elusive realm of spintronics, and it seems as if a team at NC State University is out to prove just that.