Most popular e-readers available today tend to be based around a 6-inch screen. Though you can
read technical manuals, textbooks (with graphics and tables), comic
strips or electronic magazines on these devices, the roughly
paperback-sized display does tend to feel just a little cramped. The Kno double-screened digital textbook
offered hope of bigger display real estate a few years back, but
dedicated hardware was abandoned in favor of a multi-device app.
Together with E Ink Holdings, Sony has developed a new flexible
electronic paper display technology called Mobius, that will make its
debut in a new 13.3-inch Reader prototype at EDIX 2013 in Tokyo between
May 15 and 17. Read More
While we hear a lot about the ways in which
hovering aerial drones can potentially be used to violate peoples’
privacy, it’s always nice to know that they can help us, too. That was
the case last Thursday (May 9th), when RCMP from the Canadian city of
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan used a remotely-operated quadcopter to locate
the victim of a single-vehicle rollover, which occurred in the
countryside at near-freezing temperatures. Read More
A novel concept for a sort of
leaning skyscraper has won this year's DawnTown design competition,
which asked entrants to dream up iconic landmarks for the city of Miami.
Read More 
The 01LAMP desk lamp is what you get when four
young Italian designers get together and start folding old pizza boxes.
Created by Federico Trucchia, Daniele Schinaia, Antonio Scribano and
Matt Compagnucci, 01LAMP pays homage to the idea of creating simple,
economic and sustainable DIY furniture. Read More
LTE may only be wiping its feet on the proverbial
doormat, and yet Samsung has already announced a significant
breakthrough in the development of 5G mobile communications. The company
says this will pave the way for next-generation mobile networks
offering transmission speeds in the tens of gigabits per second,
hundreds of times faster than LTE. Read More
The JF-Kit House, by Spanish-based Elii
Architecture, is an off-grid home concept which envisions occupants
using exercise to offset their energy needs. To its credit, Elii
Architecture makes it clear right off the bat that the JF-Kit House
isn’t intended to be considered as suitable for human habitation yet.
Rather, the architects did some brainstorming and imagined how our homes
may evolve in a future of rapidly decreasing fossil-fuel resources.
This was then used this as a jumping-off point to let imaginations run
wild. Read More
While beer is best served chilled,
everyone who’s tried it knows that beer and ice generally aren’t a good
mix. Most options to keep the beer cold once out of the fridge, like
beer koozies or the Chill Puck,
work from the outside in, but a new device called the Chillsner turns
things around. This freezable metal spike fits inside a beer bottle to
keep your brew ice cold from the inside out. Read More 
If you’re a claustrophobic insomniac, the GoSleep
sleeping pods probably won’t be of much interest to you, but for
international travelers fighting with jet lag and tight schedules, being
able to rent a private place to kip for an hour can be godsend. Abu
Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced last week that it has installed
ten of the Finnish-designed GoSleep pods at Abu Dhabi International
Airport to provide passengers with individual sleeping quarters while
waiting for flights. Read More
Invisibility cloaks have been around in various forms since 2006, when the first cloak based on optical metamaterials
was demonstrated. The design of cloaking devices has come a long way in
the past seven years, as illustrated by a simple, yet highly effective,
radar cloak developed by Duke University Professor Yaroslav Urzhumov,
that can be made using a hobby-level 3D printer. Read More
There are so many private space ventures under
development these days that it seems like you need a scorecard to keep
track of them all. This week, Northrop Grumman Corporation announced
that it has completed a feasibility study on a new lunar lander for the Golden Spike Company as part of a plan to send to people to the Moon within ten years at a cost of US$750 million per person. Read More
A novel concept for a sort of
leaning skyscraper has won this year's DawnTown design competition,
which asked entrants to dream up iconic landmarks for the city of Miami.
Read More
While beer is best served chilled,
everyone who’s tried it knows that beer and ice generally aren’t a good
mix. Most options to keep the beer cold once out of the fridge, like
beer koozies or the Chill Puck,
work from the outside in, but a new device called the Chillsner turns
things around. This freezable metal spike fits inside a beer bottle to
keep your brew ice cold from the inside out. Read More
When a nerve in the peripheral
nervous system is torn or severed, it can take a long time to regenerate
– if it does so at all. Depending on the location of the injury, it can
leave the affected part of the patient’s body numb and/or paralyzed for
years, or even for the rest of their life. Now, however, scientists
from Israel’s Tel Aviv University have created a gel and an implant that
they claim could vastly aid in the healing of damaged nerves. Read More
Calendars are one of the oldest
means of advertising in the world, and it's still standard practice for
big companies to send out calendars to business partners and clients.
However, they're normally made of paper and covered with the brand logo
and pictures of the company's products. German tea producer Hälssen
& Lyon decided to do something a little different by creating what's
billed as the world's first tea calendar. Read More
The clean minimalist looks which
define Apple’s aluminum notebooks may contribute to their mass appeal,
but some people prefer to personalize their computers with stickers and
aftermarket add-ons like the MacBook Wood Keyboard.
Such tinkerers now have yet another option for self-expression,
courtesy of Amsterdam-based firm Uncover's MacBook lid laser-etching
service. Read More
At last, those agonizing about what
to do with all that spare seaweed they have lying around the place can
take a leaf (or perhaps frond) out of Nir Meiri's book. The Tel
Aviv-based designer's Marine Light amply demonstrates that dried seaweed
can make rather a natty lampshade. Read More
Most popular e-readers available today tend to be based around a 6-inch screen. Though you can
read technical manuals, textbooks (with graphics and tables), comic
strips or electronic magazines on these devices, the roughly
paperback-sized display does tend to feel just a little cramped. The Kno double-screened digital textbook
offered hope of bigger display real estate a few years back, but
dedicated hardware was abandoned in favor of a multi-device app.
Together with E Ink Holdings, Sony has developed a new flexible
electronic paper display technology called Mobius, that will make its
debut in a new 13.3-inch Reader prototype at EDIX 2013 in Tokyo between
May 15 and 17. Read More
While we hear a lot about the ways in which
hovering aerial drones can potentially be used to violate peoples’
privacy, it’s always nice to know that they can help us, too. That was
the case last Thursday (May 9th), when RCMP from the Canadian city of
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan used a remotely-operated quadcopter to locate
the victim of a single-vehicle rollover, which occurred in the
countryside at near-freezing temperatures. Read More
A novel concept for a sort of
leaning skyscraper has won this year's DawnTown design competition,
which asked entrants to dream up iconic landmarks for the city of Miami.
Read More
The 01LAMP desk lamp is what you get when four
young Italian designers get together and start folding old pizza boxes.
Created by Federico Trucchia, Daniele Schinaia, Antonio Scribano and
Matt Compagnucci, 01LAMP pays homage to the idea of creating simple,
economic and sustainable DIY furniture. Read More
LTE may only be wiping its feet on the proverbial
doormat, and yet Samsung has already announced a significant
breakthrough in the development of 5G mobile communications. The company
says this will pave the way for next-generation mobile networks
offering transmission speeds in the tens of gigabits per second,
hundreds of times faster than LTE. Read More
The JF-Kit House, by Spanish-based Elii
Architecture, is an off-grid home concept which envisions occupants
using exercise to offset their energy needs. To its credit, Elii
Architecture makes it clear right off the bat that the JF-Kit House
isn’t intended to be considered as suitable for human habitation yet.
Rather, the architects did some brainstorming and imagined how our homes
may evolve in a future of rapidly decreasing fossil-fuel resources.
This was then used this as a jumping-off point to let imaginations run
wild. Read More
While beer is best served chilled,
everyone who’s tried it knows that beer and ice generally aren’t a good
mix. Most options to keep the beer cold once out of the fridge, like
beer koozies or the Chill Puck,
work from the outside in, but a new device called the Chillsner turns
things around. This freezable metal spike fits inside a beer bottle to
keep your brew ice cold from the inside out. Read More
If you’re a claustrophobic insomniac, the GoSleep
sleeping pods probably won’t be of much interest to you, but for
international travelers fighting with jet lag and tight schedules, being
able to rent a private place to kip for an hour can be godsend. Abu
Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced last week that it has installed
ten of the Finnish-designed GoSleep pods at Abu Dhabi International
Airport to provide passengers with individual sleeping quarters while
waiting for flights. Read More
Invisibility cloaks have been around in various forms since 2006, when the first cloak based on optical metamaterials
was demonstrated. The design of cloaking devices has come a long way in
the past seven years, as illustrated by a simple, yet highly effective,
radar cloak developed by Duke University Professor Yaroslav Urzhumov,
that can be made using a hobby-level 3D printer. Read More
There are so many private space ventures under
development these days that it seems like you need a scorecard to keep
track of them all. This week, Northrop Grumman Corporation announced
that it has completed a feasibility study on a new lunar lander for the Golden Spike Company as part of a plan to send to people to the Moon within ten years at a cost of US$750 million per person. Read More
The nuplug surge protected extension
cord offers two outlets and two USB ports, but what makes this device
interesting is its ability to attach to beds, couches, workbenches and
other convenient locations around the home. Read More
The nuplug surge protected extension
cord offers two outlets and two USB ports, but what makes this device
interesting is its ability to attach to beds, couches, workbenches and
other convenient locations around the home. Read More
Man has made many attempts at bringing the smooth, Mother Nature-powered flow of surfing to dry land. The ARIS Blade Runner and SurfSkate
are two of the attempts that have come to our attention most recently,
but there are plenty of others. The big sticking point is that you just
can't magically transform hot, cracked asphalt into cool, smooth ocean
breaks. But you can ride that asphalt with an actual surfboard, as the
Waveskate demonstrates beyond the shadow of all doubt. Read More
We live in an age where people in the developed
world are so dependent on electricity that if it wasn't available a
whole civilization would collapse in a week. It’s therefore ironic that
1.32 billion people around the world are still without what most people
have come to see as a basic necessity. To mark its 100th anniversary,
the Panasonic Corporation plans to distribute 100,000 solar lanterns
that the company has developed that can not only provide light, but also
charge mobile phones and other small devices. Read More
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), which lays claim
to being the largest shipbuilding company in the world, says it has
developed a miniature welding robot that can be easily transported by a
worker and affixed to a ship using magnets. The small, portable robot is
expected to increase worker productivity two to threefold. Read More
Tastes in music are such a subjective thing that
it’s practically impossible to keep everyone in a crowded environment
like a pub or coffee shop happy with the tune selection. Developed by
the Mobile Radicals group at the UK’s Lancaster University, the
CheckinDJ digital jukebox aims to keep the majority of people happy by
using near field communication (NFC) and social networking to poll
everyone’s musical tastes. Read More
In the unpleasantness stakes, dropping your
smartphone in a bucket or water is right up there with bread landing
butter-side down – only much more expensive. Sony has unveiled its
Xperia ZR that, if it lives up to expectations, will mean you’ll not
only be able to drop it in the pond, but take high-definition videos
while doing so. Read More
There have been years of controversy about
whether the superconducting quantum annealing computers manufactured by
D-Wave are a) quantum computers; and b) fast enough for a) to matter.
Now a test of the 512-qubit Vesuvius chip establishes at least that
computing based on quantum annealing is, in the words of a computer
science professor at Amherst College, "in some cases, really, really
fast." Read More
California-based engineer Faizal Ali was riding
his motorcycle on a San Diego freeway one day and downshifted in order
to slow for an exit. Because he didn’t actually apply the brakes,
however, his brake light didn’t come on. As a result, the following car
almost ran into him. That experience prompted him to partner with Jesse
Szynal and designer Fausin Mdisa to create Vololights – it’s a rear
lighting system that activates no matter what method the rider is using
to decelerate. Read More
Controversial – that's about the nicest way we
can describe Lamborghini's 50th anniversary efforts on the concept car
front. Just two months after showing the Veneno
– arguably the most extreme(ly ugly) concept in its history –
Lamborghini pushes the boundaries even further. The surprise Egoista
concept is even more out there in design. Read More
Back in 2009, the US Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) set an endurance record for electric unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) when its fuel cell-powered Ion Tiger
aircraft managed to stay aloft for 26 hours and 1 minute. Now, NRL has
announced that the same aircraft has trounced that record, by remaining
in flight for 48 hours and 1 minute. Read More
The nuplug surge protected extension
cord offers two outlets and two USB ports, but what makes this device
interesting is its ability to attach to beds, couches, workbenches and
other convenient locations around the home. Read More
Man has made many attempts at bringing the smooth, Mother Nature-powered flow of surfing to dry land. The ARIS Blade Runner and SurfSkate
are two of the attempts that have come to our attention most recently,
but there are plenty of others. The big sticking point is that you just
can't magically transform hot, cracked asphalt into cool, smooth ocean
breaks. But you can ride that asphalt with an actual surfboard, as the
Waveskate demonstrates beyond the shadow of all doubt. Read More
We live in an age where people in the developed
world are so dependent on electricity that if it wasn't available a
whole civilization would collapse in a week. It’s therefore ironic that
1.32 billion people around the world are still without what most people
have come to see as a basic necessity. To mark its 100th anniversary,
the Panasonic Corporation plans to distribute 100,000 solar lanterns
that the company has developed that can not only provide light, but also
charge mobile phones and other small devices. Read More
Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), which lays claim
to being the largest shipbuilding company in the world, says it has
developed a miniature welding robot that can be easily transported by a
worker and affixed to a ship using magnets. The small, portable robot is
expected to increase worker productivity two to threefold. Read More
Tastes in music are such a subjective thing that
it’s practically impossible to keep everyone in a crowded environment
like a pub or coffee shop happy with the tune selection. Developed by
the Mobile Radicals group at the UK’s Lancaster University, the
CheckinDJ digital jukebox aims to keep the majority of people happy by
using near field communication (NFC) and social networking to poll
everyone’s musical tastes. Read More
In the unpleasantness stakes, dropping your
smartphone in a bucket or water is right up there with bread landing
butter-side down – only much more expensive. Sony has unveiled its
Xperia ZR that, if it lives up to expectations, will mean you’ll not
only be able to drop it in the pond, but take high-definition videos
while doing so. Read More
There have been years of controversy about
whether the superconducting quantum annealing computers manufactured by
D-Wave are a) quantum computers; and b) fast enough for a) to matter.
Now a test of the 512-qubit Vesuvius chip establishes at least that
computing based on quantum annealing is, in the words of a computer
science professor at Amherst College, "in some cases, really, really
fast." Read More
California-based engineer Faizal Ali was riding
his motorcycle on a San Diego freeway one day and downshifted in order
to slow for an exit. Because he didn’t actually apply the brakes,
however, his brake light didn’t come on. As a result, the following car
almost ran into him. That experience prompted him to partner with Jesse
Szynal and designer Fausin Mdisa to create Vololights – it’s a rear
lighting system that activates no matter what method the rider is using
to decelerate. Read More
Controversial – that's about the nicest way we
can describe Lamborghini's 50th anniversary efforts on the concept car
front. Just two months after showing the Veneno
– arguably the most extreme(ly ugly) concept in its history –
Lamborghini pushes the boundaries even further. The surprise Egoista
concept is even more out there in design. Read More
Back in 2009, the US Naval Research Laboratory
(NRL) set an endurance record for electric unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAVs) when its fuel cell-powered Ion Tiger
aircraft managed to stay aloft for 26 hours and 1 minute. Now, NRL has
announced that the same aircraft has trounced that record, by remaining
in flight for 48 hours and 1 minute. Read More
The nuplug surge protected extension
cord offers two outlets and two USB ports, but what makes this device
interesting is its ability to attach to beds, couches, workbenches and
other convenient locations around the home. Read More
If you’ve been holding your breath waiting for
the long-rumored Windows 8 “Blue” update, you might be able to exhale
soon. Microsoft still hasn’t officially broken down the new features in
the update, but it does now have a name and a price: "Windows 8.1," and
"free." Read More
When a nerve in the peripheral
nervous system is torn or severed, it can take a long time to regenerate
– if it does so at all. Depending on the location of the injury, it can
leave the affected part of the patient’s body numb and/or paralyzed for
years, or even for the rest of their life. Now, however, scientists
from Israel’s Tel Aviv University have created a gel and an implant that
they claim could vastly aid in the healing of damaged nerves. Read More
The partership between Nokia and Windows Phone
hasn’t exactly set the world on fire. But it has produced some sharp
phones in the Lumia series.
Their most distinctive feature? That would probably be their colorful
polycarbonate designs. But you can kiss that goodbye, at least for now.
Nokia’s new Lumia 925 is all aluminum – maybe taking a cue or three from
the iPhone 5 and HTC One. Read More
Naval aviation history was made today, as an
autonomous unmanned aircraft took off from a US Navy nuclear aircraft
carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia. The X-47B
Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) took to the air from
the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) and is part of a program to develop
carrier-based unmanned combat aircraft capable of carrying out missions
according to pre-programmed instructions rather than being under
constant control by a ground-based pilot. Read More
Say you were the third generation of a farming
family in the southwest of Scotland, and you intended to build a new
farmhouse that made a statement about resource consumption. Building an
environmentally conscious house in this climate requires insulation up
to the ears. Now let's say this was a sheep farm you were running …
well, you would, wouldn't you? Read More
In the gold-mining process, the precious metal is
often extracted from low-grade ore in a technique known as gold
cyanidation. As its name suggests, the process utilizes highly-poisonous
cyanide, some of which ends up entering the environment in the mines’
tailings. That’s not so good. Scientists at Illinois’ Northwestern
University, however, recently announced their discovery of a new gold
recovery process that’s based on a non-toxic component of corn starch.
Read More
For professional-looking videos, one of the fundamental rules for the vast majority of shots is to use a tripod.
Doing so can be a hassle, however – particularly if you’re running
around banging off quick shots for some sort of extreme sports video.
With that in mind, New Jersey-based Wild Iron Inc. is introducing a
little something known as the Flex Shot. Essentially, it’s a deformable
4 x 4-inch (10 x 10-cm) heavy-duty rubber bag full of a “sand-like
material,” with a coated aluminum camera mount on top. I recently had a
chance to try out a prototype unit, and I think the idea has a lot of
merit. Read More
After one hundred and forty-four days, 2,336
orbits of the Earth, and hundreds upon hundreds of posts to Twitter,
Facebook and Youtube, Commander Chris Hadfield has returned from the
International Space Station a household name – arguably space travel's
first since the Apollo Moon landings. Gizmag takes a look back at
Hadfield's 5-month mission to see how and why Hadfield inspired
millions. Read More
Due to their relative faintness compared to their
parent stars, most known exoplanets have been discovered using indirect
detection methods – that is, detecting the effects they have rather
than observing them directly. There are numerous indirect methods that
have proven useful in the detection of exoplanets and now yet another,
which relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity, has joined the
list with the discovery of an exoplanet known as Kepler-76b. Read More
3D printers continue to hit the mainstream as
more accessible models are released at lower prices, some even landing
in major retail chains. The MakiBox
may currently hold the crown for cheapest 3D printer on the market, but
Pirate3D's new desktop box could provide similar quality and
affordability with much less hassle. The company's flagship printer, the
Buccaneer, will come fully assembled out of the box with a price tag of
only US$347. Read More
When a nerve in the peripheral
nervous system is torn or severed, it can take a long time to regenerate
– if it does so at all. Depending on the location of the injury, it can
leave the affected part of the patient’s body numb and/or paralyzed for
years, or even for the rest of their life. Now, however, scientists
from Israel’s Tel Aviv University have created a gel and an implant that
they claim could vastly aid in the healing of damaged nerves. Read More
If you’ve been holding your breath waiting for
the long-rumored Windows 8 “Blue” update, you might be able to exhale
soon. Microsoft still hasn’t officially broken down the new features in
the update, but it does now have a name and a price: "Windows 8.1," and
"free." Read More
When a nerve in the peripheral
nervous system is torn or severed, it can take a long time to regenerate
– if it does so at all. Depending on the location of the injury, it can
leave the affected part of the patient’s body numb and/or paralyzed for
years, or even for the rest of their life. Now, however, scientists
from Israel’s Tel Aviv University have created a gel and an implant that
they claim could vastly aid in the healing of damaged nerves. Read More
The partership between Nokia and Windows Phone
hasn’t exactly set the world on fire. But it has produced some sharp
phones in the Lumia series.
Their most distinctive feature? That would probably be their colorful
polycarbonate designs. But you can kiss that goodbye, at least for now.
Nokia’s new Lumia 925 is all aluminum – maybe taking a cue or three from
the iPhone 5 and HTC One. Read More
Naval aviation history was made today, as an
autonomous unmanned aircraft took off from a US Navy nuclear aircraft
carrier in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Virginia. The X-47B
Unmanned Combat Air System demonstrator (UCAS-D) took to the air from
the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) and is part of a program to develop
carrier-based unmanned combat aircraft capable of carrying out missions
according to pre-programmed instructions rather than being under
constant control by a ground-based pilot. Read More
Say you were the third generation of a farming
family in the southwest of Scotland, and you intended to build a new
farmhouse that made a statement about resource consumption. Building an
environmentally conscious house in this climate requires insulation up
to the ears. Now let's say this was a sheep farm you were running …
well, you would, wouldn't you? Read More
In the gold-mining process, the precious metal is
often extracted from low-grade ore in a technique known as gold
cyanidation. As its name suggests, the process utilizes highly-poisonous
cyanide, some of which ends up entering the environment in the mines’
tailings. That’s not so good. Scientists at Illinois’ Northwestern
University, however, recently announced their discovery of a new gold
recovery process that’s based on a non-toxic component of corn starch.
Read More
For professional-looking videos, one of the fundamental rules for the vast majority of shots is to use a tripod.
Doing so can be a hassle, however – particularly if you’re running
around banging off quick shots for some sort of extreme sports video.
With that in mind, New Jersey-based Wild Iron Inc. is introducing a
little something known as the Flex Shot. Essentially, it’s a deformable
4 x 4-inch (10 x 10-cm) heavy-duty rubber bag full of a “sand-like
material,” with a coated aluminum camera mount on top. I recently had a
chance to try out a prototype unit, and I think the idea has a lot of
merit. Read More
After one hundred and forty-four days, 2,336
orbits of the Earth, and hundreds upon hundreds of posts to Twitter,
Facebook and Youtube, Commander Chris Hadfield has returned from the
International Space Station a household name – arguably space travel's
first since the Apollo Moon landings. Gizmag takes a look back at
Hadfield's 5-month mission to see how and why Hadfield inspired
millions. Read More
Due to their relative faintness compared to their
parent stars, most known exoplanets have been discovered using indirect
detection methods – that is, detecting the effects they have rather
than observing them directly. There are numerous indirect methods that
have proven useful in the detection of exoplanets and now yet another,
which relies on Einstein’s special theory of relativity, has joined the
list with the discovery of an exoplanet known as Kepler-76b. Read More
3D printers continue to hit the mainstream as
more accessible models are released at lower prices, some even landing
in major retail chains. The MakiBox
may currently hold the crown for cheapest 3D printer on the market, but
Pirate3D's new desktop box could provide similar quality and
affordability with much less hassle. The company's flagship printer, the
Buccaneer, will come fully assembled out of the box with a price tag of
only US$347. Read More
East London is set to play host to the world's
biggest power station to run solely on fat, which will provide a
much-needed use for the discarded fat which can block the city's sewer
system. The station will generate 130 gigawatt-hours of electricity per
year, enough to power about 39,000 houses. Read More
When Nvidia unveiled its Tegra 4 mobile processor at CES in January, it also unveiled Project Shield,
a handheld gaming console that would be powered by said chip. The
“Project” has now been dropped and Nvidia has announced Shield will be
available in June for US$349. Read More
Archos has made a name for itself by producing a wide range of budget-friendly smart devices, from smartphones to gaming tablets,
but now it has its sights set on your kitchen. The French company
recently unveiled its new ChefPad, a 9.7-inch Android tablet designed to
act as a cooking assistant, with an easy-to-clean protective case and
kitchen-centric apps. Read More
Calendars are one of the oldest
means of advertising in the world, and it's still standard practice for
big companies to send out calendars to business partners and clients.
However, they're normally made of paper and covered with the brand logo
and pictures of the company's products. German tea producer Hälssen
& Lyon decided to do something a little different by creating what's
billed as the world's first tea calendar. Read More
Back in February at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu
Dhabi, Abdo “Dado” Feghali set a new Guinness World Record by getting
sideways in a stock Chevrolet Camaro SS fitted with an EasyDrift system
for over 10 minutes, covering a distance of 6.95 miles (11.18 km).
Pretty impressive, right? Well, it’s not looking quite so impressive
after BMW Performance Center Instructor Johan Schwartz spent a large
slab of his Saturday in a continuous drift that covered an insane 51.28
miles (82.52 km). Read More
The Minnesota Vikings American football team has
announced the final design for a new stadium to built in the Minneapolis
city center that will feature the world’s largest transparent roof.
This feat will be achieved using state-of-the-art polymer instead of
glass to resist the extremes of Minnesota’s climate, while providing
views of the city skyline and a sense of openness for fans and players
alike. Read More
When you jailbreak an iPhone or iPad, your first stop is the legendary jailbreak app store, Cydia.
It picks up where the walled garden of Apple’s App Store leaves off.
But on Android – where Google Play lets you download apps for both
unhacked and hacked devices – Cydia makes a lot less sense. But that
didn’t stop its developer from releasing, well, a different kind of Cydia for Android. Read More
Last month, recently-revived American automaker Detroit Electric unveiled its Lotus-bodied SP.01
– it’s said to be the fastest pure-electric car on the market. Although
only 999 of the cars will be built, the company did state that other
models were in the works for next year. At the recent Shanghai Auto
Show, Detroit Electric and China’s Geely Automobile Group (which owns Volvo) announced they they would be teaming up on one of those – the EC7-EV. Read More
If you're a mobile music lover who also happens
to be the active or adventurous type, you've probably been cursed with
an earbud or two falling out, interrupting your rhythm or breaking your
concentration while you try and shove it back in place. Even if your
buds stay put, danger can lurk on every street corner and at every curb
thanks to the immersive passive isolation resulting from a snug fit.
These are issues that users of the ITreq Micro Audio Player shouldn't be
troubled with. Whether you're at the gym, riding a bike, skateboarding,
or just aggressively gardening, the device should stay in place behind
one ear, leaving your other one on alert for potential hazards. Read More
While waiting anxiously for the release of a
5-megapixel camera module might sound a bit crazy, for owners of a
Raspberry Pi, it couldn't come soon enough. For those in the UK, the
wait is finally over as retailers opened up their virtual doors today
and Pi camera boards started flying off the warehouse shelves. Read More
Calendars are one of the oldest
means of advertising in the world, and it's still standard practice for
big companies to send out calendars to business partners and clients.
However, they're normally made of paper and covered with the brand logo
and pictures of the company's products. German tea producer Hälssen
& Lyon decided to do something a little different by creating what's
billed as the world's first tea calendar. Read More
East London is set to play host to the world's
biggest power station to run solely on fat, which will provide a
much-needed use for the discarded fat which can block the city's sewer
system. The station will generate 130 gigawatt-hours of electricity per
year, enough to power about 39,000 houses. Read More
When Nvidia unveiled its Tegra 4 mobile processor at CES in January, it also unveiled Project Shield,
a handheld gaming console that would be powered by said chip. The
“Project” has now been dropped and Nvidia has announced Shield will be
available in June for US$349. Read More
Archos has made a name for itself by producing a wide range of budget-friendly smart devices, from smartphones to gaming tablets,
but now it has its sights set on your kitchen. The French company
recently unveiled its new ChefPad, a 9.7-inch Android tablet designed to
act as a cooking assistant, with an easy-to-clean protective case and
kitchen-centric apps. Read More
Calendars are one of the oldest
means of advertising in the world, and it's still standard practice for
big companies to send out calendars to business partners and clients.
However, they're normally made of paper and covered with the brand logo
and pictures of the company's products. German tea producer Hälssen
& Lyon decided to do something a little different by creating what's
billed as the world's first tea calendar. Read More
Back in February at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu
Dhabi, Abdo “Dado” Feghali set a new Guinness World Record by getting
sideways in a stock Chevrolet Camaro SS fitted with an EasyDrift system
for over 10 minutes, covering a distance of 6.95 miles (11.18 km).
Pretty impressive, right? Well, it’s not looking quite so impressive
after BMW Performance Center Instructor Johan Schwartz spent a large
slab of his Saturday in a continuous drift that covered an insane 51.28
miles (82.52 km). Read More
The Minnesota Vikings American football team has
announced the final design for a new stadium to built in the Minneapolis
city center that will feature the world’s largest transparent roof.
This feat will be achieved using state-of-the-art polymer instead of
glass to resist the extremes of Minnesota’s climate, while providing
views of the city skyline and a sense of openness for fans and players
alike. Read More
When you jailbreak an iPhone or iPad, your first stop is the legendary jailbreak app store, Cydia.
It picks up where the walled garden of Apple’s App Store leaves off.
But on Android – where Google Play lets you download apps for both
unhacked and hacked devices – Cydia makes a lot less sense. But that
didn’t stop its developer from releasing, well, a different kind of Cydia for Android. Read More
Last month, recently-revived American automaker Detroit Electric unveiled its Lotus-bodied SP.01
– it’s said to be the fastest pure-electric car on the market. Although
only 999 of the cars will be built, the company did state that other
models were in the works for next year. At the recent Shanghai Auto
Show, Detroit Electric and China’s Geely Automobile Group (which owns Volvo) announced they they would be teaming up on one of those – the EC7-EV. Read More
If you're a mobile music lover who also happens
to be the active or adventurous type, you've probably been cursed with
an earbud or two falling out, interrupting your rhythm or breaking your
concentration while you try and shove it back in place. Even if your
buds stay put, danger can lurk on every street corner and at every curb
thanks to the immersive passive isolation resulting from a snug fit.
These are issues that users of the ITreq Micro Audio Player shouldn't be
troubled with. Whether you're at the gym, riding a bike, skateboarding,
or just aggressively gardening, the device should stay in place behind
one ear, leaving your other one on alert for potential hazards. Read More
While waiting anxiously for the release of a
5-megapixel camera module might sound a bit crazy, for owners of a
Raspberry Pi, it couldn't come soon enough. For those in the UK, the
wait is finally over as retailers opened up their virtual doors today
and Pi camera boards started flying off the warehouse shelves. Read More
Four years ago, we heard about Brinno’s GardenWatchCam
– a fairly simple weatherproof camera, designed for getting time-lapse
footage of growing plants. Since then, the company has set about making
more general-purpose time-lapse video cameras. Its latest offering is
the 1.3-megapixel High Dynamic Range (HDR) TLC200 Pro. Read More
As search technology advances, it’s going to
become more and more like human interaction. Apple’s Siri might have
popularized conversational search, but many of us feel that Google Now
quickly surpassed it – with its faster and more accurate results. Soon
much of Google Now’s functionality will be arriving on PCs, by way of
the Chrome OS and web browser. Not stopping there, Google also added
some improvements to Android’s Google Now. Read More
If you want “pure Android” on your smartphone, you usually have a couple of options. You can either buy a Nexus device, or you can hack a non-Google device and install a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod. But for one of the biggest phones of the year,
you'll soon have a third option. Google just announced the Samsung
Galaxy S4: Google Edition, bringing stock Android to Samsung’s
powerhouse phone. Read More
Vachen is a Kickstarter-funded smartwatch that
aims to approach the market from a different angle to its competitors.
The device is pitched as a traditional watch that's been upgraded to
include a number of smart features such as text and email notifications,
and with its traditional timepiece aesthetics, it offers an
interesting, though not entirely unique take on wearable tech. Read More
The clean minimalist looks which
define Apple’s aluminum notebooks may contribute to their mass appeal,
but some people prefer to personalize their computers with stickers and
aftermarket add-ons like the MacBook Wood Keyboard.
Such tinkerers now have yet another option for self-expression,
courtesy of Amsterdam-based firm Uncover's MacBook lid laser-etching
service. Read More
At last, those agonizing about what
to do with all that spare seaweed they have lying around the place can
take a leaf (or perhaps frond) out of Nir Meiri's book. The Tel
Aviv-based designer's Marine Light amply demonstrates that dried seaweed
can make rather a natty lampshade. Read More
Micro home enthusiasts Christopher and Malissa
Tack have designed and hand-built a gorgeous 140 square foot eco-home on
wheels. Dubbed the Tiny Tack House, the wooden home was built on top of
a 20 by 8.5 foot flatbed utility trailer, which means the couple can
move around as they wish. We recently interviewed Christopher about the
his experience and love for tiny homes. Read More
The clean minimalist looks which
define Apple’s aluminum notebooks may contribute to their mass appeal,
but some people prefer to personalize their computers with stickers and
aftermarket add-ons like the MacBook Wood Keyboard.
Such tinkerers now have yet another option for self-expression,
courtesy of Amsterdam-based firm Uncover's MacBook lid laser-etching
service. Read More
At last, those agonizing about what
to do with all that spare seaweed they have lying around the place can
take a leaf (or perhaps frond) out of Nir Meiri's book. The Tel
Aviv-based designer's Marine Light amply demonstrates that dried seaweed
can make rather a natty lampshade. Read More
Four years ago, we heard about Brinno’s GardenWatchCam
– a fairly simple weatherproof camera, designed for getting time-lapse
footage of growing plants. Since then, the company has set about making
more general-purpose time-lapse video cameras. Its latest offering is
the 1.3-megapixel High Dynamic Range (HDR) TLC200 Pro. Read More
As search technology advances, it’s going to
become more and more like human interaction. Apple’s Siri might have
popularized conversational search, but many of us feel that Google Now
quickly surpassed it – with its faster and more accurate results. Soon
much of Google Now’s functionality will be arriving on PCs, by way of
the Chrome OS and web browser. Not stopping there, Google also added
some improvements to Android’s Google Now. Read More
If you want “pure Android” on your smartphone, you usually have a couple of options. You can either buy a Nexus device, or you can hack a non-Google device and install a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod. But for one of the biggest phones of the year,
you'll soon have a third option. Google just announced the Samsung
Galaxy S4: Google Edition, bringing stock Android to Samsung’s
powerhouse phone. Read More
Vachen is a Kickstarter-funded smartwatch that
aims to approach the market from a different angle to its competitors.
The device is pitched as a traditional watch that's been upgraded to
include a number of smart features such as text and email notifications,
and with its traditional timepiece aesthetics, it offers an
interesting, though not entirely unique take on wearable tech. Read More
The clean minimalist looks which
define Apple’s aluminum notebooks may contribute to their mass appeal,
but some people prefer to personalize their computers with stickers and
aftermarket add-ons like the MacBook Wood Keyboard.
Such tinkerers now have yet another option for self-expression,
courtesy of Amsterdam-based firm Uncover's MacBook lid laser-etching
service. Read More
At last, those agonizing about what
to do with all that spare seaweed they have lying around the place can
take a leaf (or perhaps frond) out of Nir Meiri's book. The Tel
Aviv-based designer's Marine Light amply demonstrates that dried seaweed
can make rather a natty lampshade. Read More
Micro home enthusiasts Christopher and Malissa
Tack have designed and hand-built a gorgeous 140 square foot eco-home on
wheels. Dubbed the Tiny Tack House, the wooden home was built on top of
a 20 by 8.5 foot flatbed utility trailer, which means the couple can
move around as they wish. We recently interviewed Christopher about the
his experience and love for tiny homes. Read More
Nice your blog....
ReplyDeleteMay i share with you 10 Best Keyword Planner Alternatives For Free SEO Keyword Research of Your Blog Post. you must try it...
Below we have stated applications like Showbox which you can use as showbox alternative.
ReplyDeleteI Like your post. You have done really good work. Thank you for the information you provide, it helped me a lot. minecraft apk download
ReplyDeleteYou have done really good work.I Like your post. It was useful. visit our blog SoundHound ∞ Music Search 8.8.1 Apk . so again thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting this great piece of information. I found some important things in this blog . thanks for such kind of information here. Visit our blog also Yie Ar Kung-Fu 2 . Thanks again.
ReplyDelete