2012 Games dubbed the "App Olympics"

More Drive to Discover

• New website helps find family history
• REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - An entrepreneur's new website allows you to find your own family history. It has proven to be a huge success.
• More IP addresses added in Internet upgrade
• A new address system begins this week to make the Internet zippier and to make more room for devices with IP addresses.
• Augmented reality glasses can view the internet
• The internet has turned cellphones into mini handheld computers. Now eyeglasses could be next.
• Personal use drones gaining popularity
• People are buying drones to capture stunning video and images, but their use is creating some serious legal questions.
• High tech used to build better rearview mirror
• High tech mirrors and video are being used to make backing up a vehicle safer.
• Silicon Valley's new buzzword
• Apps are so yesterday. There's a new buzzword in Silicon Valley: Big Data.
• Say hello to the future of commuting
• There's a new personal commuting device in town. It's an electric bike, but it's unlike any bicycle you've ever seen.
• LEGOs go from toy to technology
• SANTA CLARA, Calif. - In Santa Clara this weekend, nearly 5,000 people attended something called "Bricks by the Bay".
• 94-year-old scientist still cranking out inventions
• LIVERMORE, Calif. - The drive to discover has kept Dick Post working for nearly a hundred years. At 94, he is still cranking out patents and inventions.
• Cinema will do away with celluloid film
• SAN FRANCISCO - The movie industry will do away with celluloid film in 2013, so what's next for movies?
• 14 new all electric cars will hit market
• SAN FRANCISCO - In the coming year, major auto manufacturers will begin selling 14 new pure-electric cars.
• Electronic skateboards take to SF streets
• SAN FRANCISCO - Electronic skateboards are now appearing on the streets of San Francisco. It's a better way to get to work.

• Texting money could replace wire transfers
• 3D printing not rocket science anymore
• Cheap plastic could be used to detect nukes
• Tech consumption, innovation to continue in 2012
• Multi-touch, multi-user screens in development
• Responsive touch: A tablet that touches back
• New camera changes focus on pictures
• Mountain View company improves upon solar panel
• SoMa company seeks to cut out tech middleman
• Mechanical flying cockroach unveiled at Cal lab
• The Pan Am of the future
• New advances in gesture, touch displays unveiled
• Lawrence Livermore creates fast DNA copy machine
• 'Pottergraphs' transform photos into movies
• Phones recognize objects without barcodes
• 'Robomonkeys' built through open-source collaboration
• Scientists build software to resurrect old recordings
• Sci-fi glass displays become reality
• Stanford developing 'solar gas tanks'
• GigaPan Time Machine shows future of videos
• New kind of surround sound coming to video games
• Supercomputers at Livermore Lab analyze behavior
• Marin Co. to issue iPads for its special ed students
• Wireless technology helping keep food safe
• Robotic submarine built for Antarctica expedition
• Drive to Discover a solution to space junk
• 'Wolfram Alpha' is world's biggest calculator
• Tech will show 3D Super Bowl play-of-the-game
• SF start-up creating touch-interactive video games
• 7.1 sound systems to accompany 3D movies