South Korea’s Ministry of Information and Communication has predicted (possibly rather rashly) that every household in the country will have a robot servitor by 2020, or sooner if the real enthusiasts have their way. Looks pretty blue-sky at first glance, but this is a country which has achieved connecting 72% of its homes to broadband in just the last five years.

I don’t see the privacy risks of replacing manned flights with UAVs for law enforcement in the United States. When one operator can fly multiple UAVs, then the privacy concerns are a lot more obvious.

Charles Simonyi, a leading programmer with Microsoft who worked on the MS Office suite, has signed a contract with the Russian Space Agency for a mission in space in 2007. Insert your own joke about ‘launch windows’ here.

iMomus riffs on the drawbacks of traditional in-person brainstorming in a connected world where we can change personalities like clothes.

Those little tubes are getting everywhere…two physicists at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University have managed to get a rough and ready flash memory device based on carbon nanotubes to work at room temperature. It’s not perfect by a long chalk, but it’s the first step on the inevitable road to nanotube electronics.