Astronomers have used the Atacama Large
Milimeter/submilimeter array (ALMA) in Chile to view the largest stellar
womb ever observed in the Milky Way. The gigantic object, which resides
within the Spitzer Dark Cloud (SDC), is some 500 times the size of the
Sun, and is still experiencing growth. Read More
A Proton-M rocket crashed headlong
into the ground shortly after take off on July 2. According to
independent website Russian Space Web, which has been monitoring Russian
media since the crash, reports that crash investigators examining the
wreckage had found the angular velocity sensors had been installed the
wrong way up. Read More 
TP Vision has announced an upgrade to its
Ambilight TV backlighting system designed to work alongside (well,
underneath) Philips' hue color-change LED light bulbs,
effectively allowing Ambilight effects to fill the entire room. The new
system, dubbed Ambilight 4-sided XL, is included on Philips' new 60-in
Elevation TV. Its 94 LEDs cover all four sides of the display, and will
adapt to match the predominant color of the on-screen action – as will
any connected hue bulbs. Read More
Ecovative Design is best known
for making sustainable mushroom-based products which can be used as an
alternative to Styrofoam, but the company has now turned its hand to
making a tiny house on wheels from fungi. At least in part, anyway ...
Read More
The University of Delft has a program devoted to
kite-based generation systems, with 20 years of research and development
under their belt since Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut
established it. Now, members of the team are exploring practical niches
where the compromises of kite-based power might pay off. One has just
completed a trip through Kenya, Tanzania and Senegal discussing
opportunities for rural African kite generation with governmental
agencies, universities and companies in the renewables space. Read More
Based on the all-new 2014 F-Type convertible,
the Jaguar Project 7 concept car makes its world debut at the 2013
Goodwood Festival of Speed. The new race-inspired single-seat concept
adds some extra power and speed to the F-Type's sexy curves and hopes to
recreate some of the excitement of the seven Le Mans wins that it's
named after. Read More
Los Angeles-based Eliott Ephrati is bringing a
new product to the masses through Kickstarter called Skymouse, which is
designed to let users control their computers using only their fingers.
Mice of this sort are starting to gain more traction, with products like
The Mycestro 3D wearable mouse and the Genius wireless Ring Mouse coming before this one. While those have you wearing the mouse, the pitch for Skymouse is that your finger actually is the mouse. Read More
While the Mars rovers Curiosity and Opportunity
continue to set new records, NASA is looking at its next mission to the
surface of the Red Planet. On Tuesday, the space agency released a
154-page report by the Mars 2020 Science Definition Team, which sets out
the objectives and preliminary design of the probe scheduled to be sent
to Mars in 2020. It's main task will be to seek out areas where life
might exist and return samples to Earth. Read More
Graeme Obree
has redesigned his Beastie prone bicycle ahead of an attempt to break
the human-powered land speed record and, potentially, the 100 mph (161
km/h) barrier at the same time. The radical changes made to the now
complete bicycle have improved both visibility and aerodynamics. It was
tested at Prestwick airport at the end of June. Read More
Recently, there have been advances in the area of digital data storage promising outstanding data density and super-long-term data storage.
A new data storage technology developed at the University of
Southampton can do both. Due to its similarities to the “memory
crystals” used in the Superman films, it has been dubbed the "Superman memory crystal." Read More
The Cartonado is a flatpack lamp
which, electrics aside, is made entirely from corrugated cardboard. Read More
The Cartonado is a flatpack lamp
which, electrics aside, is made entirely from corrugated cardboard. Read More
The Cartonado is a flatpack lamp
which, electrics aside, is made entirely from corrugated cardboard. Read More
Here's rather a fetching piece of
furniture design. SpoolStool, by New Zealand industrial design student
Joe Levy, is something of a mashup of a stool and an extension cable.
Read More
The My Camp Kitchen Mini takes the function and form factor of larger My Camp Kitchen models to pack a kitchen's-worth of cooking and serving accessories it into a smaller, cheaper package. Read More
We’ve certainly been hearing a lot
about facial recognition as a means of identification, although the
technology could – conceivably – be thwarted by someone wearing a mask.
Now, however, scientists at India’s Jadavpur University are taking a
different approach to facial ID. They’ve developed a system that can
identify a person based not on the composition of their face, but on the
blood vessels within it. Read More
It was probably about three seconds after the original iPad mini
launched, when the question was first asked: "How long until it gets a
Retina Display?". For all of the current model's great features (premium
build, light weight, compact form factor), its 163 PPI display isn't
exactly cutting-edge. Rumors have been all over the place about the inevitable Retina upgrade, but a new report says that it may be showing up a little later than expected. Read More
Ladies, I know this may come as a huge
surprise to some of you, but ... a lot of guys don’t wash their hands
after finishing their business in a public bathroom. It’s true. In order
to give such characters less of an excuse for not washing after peeing,
a Latvian company known as Stand is now offering a combination sink and
urinal. Appropriately enough, it’s called the Tandem. Read More
DARPA has revealed the completed ATLAS humanoid robot, which is to star in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) – and it cuts a striking figure. Designed by Boston Dynamics (the guys behind the BigDog, Cheetah, and LS3 quadrupeds), it's being given to the top teams that recently competed in the Virtual Robotics Challenge
(VRC). Now those teams have less than six months to fine tune their
software with the real robot before they face the first of two live
challenges. Read More
There are few things better than lazing around
the house on a warm summer day, whose fragrant zephyrs speak of spicy
isles and heaven-breathing groves.* At least, until the
neighbors start their leaf-blowers and the city needs to tear up the
sidewalks. Noise pollution is one of the scourges of urban and suburban
life, which can drown out nature's melodies to cause annoyance, stress,
and hearing loss. Now, however, a team of South Korean engineers has
invented a remarkable window that lets air in while keeping a great deal
of noise out. Read More
We’ve already seen gadgets such as Koubachi and Flower Power,
that communicate with users’ smartphones to let them know when their
houseplants need watering. Scale that idea up to an agricultural level,
and you get a prototype device known as the Farm Level Optimal Water
management Assistant for Irrigation under Deficit – or FLOW-AID. It’s
designed to let farmers in drought-stricken regions know when and how
much water to apply to their crops, so they don’t run their irrigation
systems unnecessarily. Read More
Culminating four years of research, a team at
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed a technology
that can turn a multitude of surfaces including wood, glass, aluminium,
steel and even plastics into a low-cost multi-touch screen. The
technology, named STATINA (for Speech Touch and Acoustic Tangible
Interfaces for Next-generation Applications), is only a couple years
away from reaching mass production. Read More
Looking to attract some attention to its InfoComm
and CE Week booths, Leon Speakers created a piece of functional artwork
that it calls the sound sculpture. Not quite as dramatic as the
company's original sound sculpture, a 16-foot (4.9-m) dragon revealed in
2010, but still intriguing in its own right, the new sound sculpture
hangs on the wall, where it seeks to dazzle both the eyes and ears. Read More
Embedding flashing lights into the neck
of your guitar is one way to brighten up a performance, but Peter Holm
and Brandon Williams have another. Their Firefly Pick looks like any
other heavy duty string plucker, until it takes its rightful place
between thumb and finger. It then springs to life with a rhythmic light
show to complement your flashy playing. Read More
During the last few years, smartphone cameras
have steadily improved. But every now and then a product comes along
that doesn't have the patience for steady evolution. Nokia's new Lumia
1020, for example, takes the current 13-megapixel benchmark of phones
like the Galaxy S4,
and blows that spec out of the water. This Windows Phone 8 handset
isn't messing around, rocking an impressive 41-megapixel sensor. Read More
As the functionality of smartphones and the
popularity of electric scooters both continue to progress, it’s only
natural that we should see the advent of electric scooters that feature
smartphone integration. Recent examples have included the smart escooter and the MINI Scooter E,
although the former won’t be in stores until next year, while the
latter was designed only as a concept. Yesterday, however, Japan’s Terra Motors announced the upcoming availability of its iPhone-using A4000i. Read More
Just over a year after showing off a new Full HD smartphone display,
LG's Display wing has taken the wraps off a new variant that's being
hailed as the world's thinnest. The working 5.2-inch panel boasts a
1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution, and represents the first outing for a
proprietary touch technology called Advanced One-Glass-Solution, where
two flexible printed circuits are positioned between the glass and the
touch layer. Read More
The Cartonado is a flatpack lamp
which, electrics aside, is made entirely from corrugated cardboard. Read More
DARPA has revealed the completed ATLAS humanoid robot, which is to star in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) – and it cuts a striking figure. Designed by Boston Dynamics (the guys behind the BigDog, Cheetah, and LS3 quadrupeds), it's being given to the top teams that recently competed in the Virtual Robotics Challenge
(VRC). Now those teams have less than six months to fine tune their
software with the real robot before they face the first of two live
challenges. Read More
There are few things better than lazing around
the house on a warm summer day, whose fragrant zephyrs speak of spicy
isles and heaven-breathing groves.* At least, until the
neighbors start their leaf-blowers and the city needs to tear up the
sidewalks. Noise pollution is one of the scourges of urban and suburban
life, which can drown out nature's melodies to cause annoyance, stress,
and hearing loss. Now, however, a team of South Korean engineers has
invented a remarkable window that lets air in while keeping a great deal
of noise out. Read More
We’ve already seen gadgets such as Koubachi and Flower Power,
that communicate with users’ smartphones to let them know when their
houseplants need watering. Scale that idea up to an agricultural level,
and you get a prototype device known as the Farm Level Optimal Water
management Assistant for Irrigation under Deficit – or FLOW-AID. It’s
designed to let farmers in drought-stricken regions know when and how
much water to apply to their crops, so they don’t run their irrigation
systems unnecessarily. Read More
Culminating four years of research, a team at
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed a technology
that can turn a multitude of surfaces including wood, glass, aluminium,
steel and even plastics into a low-cost multi-touch screen. The
technology, named STATINA (for Speech Touch and Acoustic Tangible
Interfaces for Next-generation Applications), is only a couple years
away from reaching mass production. Read More
Looking to attract some attention to its InfoComm
and CE Week booths, Leon Speakers created a piece of functional artwork
that it calls the sound sculpture. Not quite as dramatic as the
company's original sound sculpture, a 16-foot (4.9-m) dragon revealed in
2010, but still intriguing in its own right, the new sound sculpture
hangs on the wall, where it seeks to dazzle both the eyes and ears. Read More
Embedding flashing lights into the neck
of your guitar is one way to brighten up a performance, but Peter Holm
and Brandon Williams have another. Their Firefly Pick looks like any
other heavy duty string plucker, until it takes its rightful place
between thumb and finger. It then springs to life with a rhythmic light
show to complement your flashy playing. Read More
During the last few years, smartphone cameras
have steadily improved. But every now and then a product comes along
that doesn't have the patience for steady evolution. Nokia's new Lumia
1020, for example, takes the current 13-megapixel benchmark of phones
like the Galaxy S4,
and blows that spec out of the water. This Windows Phone 8 handset
isn't messing around, rocking an impressive 41-megapixel sensor. Read More
As the functionality of smartphones and the
popularity of electric scooters both continue to progress, it’s only
natural that we should see the advent of electric scooters that feature
smartphone integration. Recent examples have included the smart escooter and the MINI Scooter E,
although the former won’t be in stores until next year, while the
latter was designed only as a concept. Yesterday, however, Japan’s Terra Motors announced the upcoming availability of its iPhone-using A4000i. Read More
Just over a year after showing off a new Full HD smartphone display,
LG's Display wing has taken the wraps off a new variant that's being
hailed as the world's thinnest. The working 5.2-inch panel boasts a
1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution, and represents the first outing for a
proprietary touch technology called Advanced One-Glass-Solution, where
two flexible printed circuits are positioned between the glass and the
touch layer. Read More
The Cartonado is a flatpack lamp
which, electrics aside, is made entirely from corrugated cardboard. Read More
DARPA has revealed the completed ATLAS humanoid robot, which is to star in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) – and it cuts a striking figure. Designed by Boston Dynamics (the guys behind the BigDog, Cheetah, and LS3 quadrupeds), it's being given to the top teams that recently competed in the Virtual Robotics Challenge
(VRC). Now those teams have less than six months to fine tune their
software with the real robot before they face the first of two live
challenges. Read More
There are few things better than lazing around
the house on a warm summer day, whose fragrant zephyrs speak of spicy
isles and heaven-breathing groves.* At least, until the
neighbors start their leaf-blowers and the city needs to tear up the
sidewalks. Noise pollution is one of the scourges of urban and suburban
life, which can drown out nature's melodies to cause annoyance, stress,
and hearing loss. Now, however, a team of South Korean engineers has
invented a remarkable window that lets air in while keeping a great deal
of noise out. Read More
We’ve already seen gadgets such as Koubachi and Flower Power,
that communicate with users’ smartphones to let them know when their
houseplants need watering. Scale that idea up to an agricultural level,
and you get a prototype device known as the Farm Level Optimal Water
management Assistant for Irrigation under Deficit – or FLOW-AID. It’s
designed to let farmers in drought-stricken regions know when and how
much water to apply to their crops, so they don’t run their irrigation
systems unnecessarily. Read More
Culminating four years of research, a team at
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University has developed a technology
that can turn a multitude of surfaces including wood, glass, aluminium,
steel and even plastics into a low-cost multi-touch screen. The
technology, named STATINA (for Speech Touch and Acoustic Tangible
Interfaces for Next-generation Applications), is only a couple years
away from reaching mass production. Read More
Looking to attract some attention to its InfoComm
and CE Week booths, Leon Speakers created a piece of functional artwork
that it calls the sound sculpture. Not quite as dramatic as the
company's original sound sculpture, a 16-foot (4.9-m) dragon revealed in
2010, but still intriguing in its own right, the new sound sculpture
hangs on the wall, where it seeks to dazzle both the eyes and ears. Read More
Embedding flashing lights into the neck
of your guitar is one way to brighten up a performance, but Peter Holm
and Brandon Williams have another. Their Firefly Pick looks like any
other heavy duty string plucker, until it takes its rightful place
between thumb and finger. It then springs to life with a rhythmic light
show to complement your flashy playing. Read More
During the last few years, smartphone cameras
have steadily improved. But every now and then a product comes along
that doesn't have the patience for steady evolution. Nokia's new Lumia
1020, for example, takes the current 13-megapixel benchmark of phones
like the Galaxy S4,
and blows that spec out of the water. This Windows Phone 8 handset
isn't messing around, rocking an impressive 41-megapixel sensor. Read More
As the functionality of smartphones and the
popularity of electric scooters both continue to progress, it’s only
natural that we should see the advent of electric scooters that feature
smartphone integration. Recent examples have included the smart escooter and the MINI Scooter E,
although the former won’t be in stores until next year, while the
latter was designed only as a concept. Yesterday, however, Japan’s Terra Motors announced the upcoming availability of its iPhone-using A4000i. Read More
Just over a year after showing off a new Full HD smartphone display,
LG's Display wing has taken the wraps off a new variant that's being
hailed as the world's thinnest. The working 5.2-inch panel boasts a
1,920 x 1,080 pixel resolution, and represents the first outing for a
proprietary touch technology called Advanced One-Glass-Solution, where
two flexible printed circuits are positioned between the glass and the
touch layer. Read More
The Cartonado is a flatpack lamp
which, electrics aside, is made entirely from corrugated cardboard. Read More
Spider silk is a truly remarkable material: it's tougher than Kevlar,
strong as steel, lighter than carbon fiber, and can be stretched 40
percent beyond its original length without breaking. Now, Japanese
startup Spiber says it has found a way to produce it synthetically and,
over the next two years, will step up mass production to create anything
from surgical materials to auto parts and bulletproof vests. Read More
Here's rather a fetching piece of
furniture design. SpoolStool, by New Zealand industrial design student
Joe Levy, is something of a mashup of a stool and an extension cable.
Read More
Gregory Holloway's LittleBox PC is a
build-it-yourself kit designed to turn the Raspberry Pi into a complete
touchscreen desktop computer. LittleBox, which includes a screen and
comes with 61 pieces of plywood held together by over 100 nuts, bolts
and screws, is designed to be easy enough for almost anyone to put
together with only a few tools. And wouldn't you know, Holloway has
launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring LittleBox to the people. Read More
It was last October when Gizmag first reported on the exploits of AeroVelo,
the lastest in a long line of flyers, high and otherwise, to vie for
the US$250,000 Sikorsky Prize. To claim the bounty, a human-powered
helicopter must fly for over a minute and attain an altitude of over 3 m
while remaining within a 10 m x 10 m box. On June 13, AeroVelo's Atlas
helicopter did precisely that. Read More
Construction of Samsung's new Silicon Valley
headquarters designed by architecture firm NBBJ has begun. The San
Jose-based project will cover 1.1 million sq ft and feature a 10-story
office tower, multiple garden areas, a green-walled parking complex, and
a degree of sustainable technology, including solar power. Read More
These days, we are so reliant on computers that
many of us rarely pick up an actual pen or pencil and rely on
auto-correct to fix our spelling mistakes. But Falk Wolsky and Daniel
Kaesmacher think there's still a place in this modern world for good
penmanship and correct spelling and have taken to Kickstarter to get
their Lernstift (German for "learning pen"), which vibrates to indicate
when the writer makes spelling mistakes or exhibits poor penmanship,
into production. Read More
Uncovering any sort of detailed information about
an exoplanet presents astronomers with an exceedingly difficult
challenge. Despite the hurdles, however, some exoplanets are
particularly well situated for such study. Astronomers have previously
determined considerable information about the atmosphere and climate of
HD 189733b. Now, thanks to Hubble observations made while it passed
behind its primary star last December, we also know that this hot
Jupiter-like planet is a deep cobalt blue in color, marking the first
time that the color of an exoplanet has been measured. Read More
For four decades, the Caterham Seven
has been turning heads and packing large servings of performance into a
very small package. This weekend, at the 2013 Goodwood Festival of
Speed, Caterham Cars is unveiling the slightly mad Caterham Seven 620 R,
which will be put through its paces by F1 Team driver Charles Pic and
other drivers from the Caterham stable. Built to celebrate 40 years of
the Seven, Caterham says that it’s the most extreme version in the
lightweight, high-performance line ever produced. Read More
Anyone who plays video games will know that few
things protect an area like a well-placed sentry gun. In the real world,
though, even a person's bedroom or office could use a little protection
sometimes, which is why one designer has built the Nerf Vulcan Sentry
Gun. Using a custom program and some servos, the sentry can
automatically locate targets and unleash a stream of foam darts at over
seven times the usual speed, while keeping its owner out of the
crosshairs. Read More
The My Camp Kitchen Mini takes the function and form factor of larger My Camp Kitchen models to pack a kitchen's-worth of cooking and serving accessories it into a smaller, cheaper package. Read More
A new, non-invasive type of test could spell the
beginning of a new age in bladder cancer diagnosis. Researchers at the
University of Liverpool and University of the West of England in Bristol
have created a device that can analyze the odors in urine to catch
early signs of this type of cancer. The researchers claim the device has
generated an accuracy rate of 100 percent in tests with 98 urine
samples. Read More
We’ve certainly been hearing a lot
about facial recognition as a means of identification, although the
technology could – conceivably – be thwarted by someone wearing a mask.
Now, however, scientists at India’s Jadavpur University are taking a
different approach to facial ID. They’ve developed a system that can
identify a person based not on the composition of their face, but on the
blood vessels within it. Read More
Just a few weeks after unveiling the monstrous Aventum II
boutique gaming PC, Digital Storm is getting ready to break out a new
Haswell-packing portable powerhouse called Veloce. The Windows 8
notebook has a Full HD display, hybrid storage and discrete Nvidia
graphics. Read More
Although Homer Simpson’s brother’s Baby
Translator may still only be a whimsical concept, Rhode Island
scientists have developed something that could prove to be even more
valuable. Researchers at Brown University teamed up with faculty at
Women & Infants Hospital, to create a computer tool that may find
use detecting neurological or developmental problems in infants, by
analyzing their cries. Read More
NASA 3D-prints and fires rocket engine component
By David Szondy
July 12, 2013
Star Trek's Mr. Scott will have fewer
reasons to panic as the day comes closer when even rocket engines can be
cranked out on 3D printers. In recent tests, NASA and Aerojet
Rocketdyne fired a rocket engine injector at NASA's Glenn Research
Center in Cleveland, Ohio that was made using a 3D printer. The project,
done in collaboration between NASA and private industry, aims at
speeding up the manufacture of rocket components while reducing costs as
well as eventually printing them in space. Read More
It was probably about three seconds after the original iPad mini
launched, when the question was first asked: "How long until it gets a
Retina Display?". For all of the current model's great features (premium
build, light weight, compact form factor), its 163 PPI display isn't
exactly cutting-edge. Rumors have been all over the place about the inevitable Retina upgrade, but a new report says that it may be showing up a little later than expected. Read More
Ladies, I know this may come as a huge
surprise to some of you, but ... a lot of guys don’t wash their hands
after finishing their business in a public bathroom. It’s true. In order
to give such characters less of an excuse for not washing after peeing,
a Latvian company known as Stand is now offering a combination sink and
urinal. Appropriately enough, it’s called the Tandem. Read More
About the size of a lunch box, the new Hot Logic
Mini is billed as a "personal portable oven." The handy gadget is
claimed to cook and heat food without drying it out, delivering a tasty
meal with little effort. Read More
Now that you can be scanned and 3D-printed in miniature form, two-dimensional portraits seem so last century.
Of course, this novelty is way more expensive than a photograph, but
now a company called Twinkind located in Hamburg, Germany is offering a
3D portrait service where the lengthy scanning process has been made as
quick and painless as having a photo taken. You can even scan your pets,
as they don't need to stay still for 20 minutes at a time! Read More
The DARPA Robotics Challenge
(DRC) has scheduled its first physical trial for late December, leaving
competing teams less than six months to finish building and programming
their robots. In case you're just tuning in, the DRC is a gauntlet of
daunting tasks designed to test robots that may someday stand in for
people as first responders. DARPA has just revealed the completed ATLAS humanoid, but there's still a half dozen others that remain somewhat mysterious. Now, Team DRC-HUBO is spilling the beans on its own humanoid robot. Read More
To get the most out of solar panels they need to be facing the right way. Systems that track the sun
are often used in large solar power stations and some larger home
installations, but most flat panels for portable applications just lie
there. Colorado-based Aspect Solar has come up with the SunSocket Solar
Generator, a lightweight, portable, self-contained solar power system
consisting of a battery and solar panels that brings the advantages of
automatically tracking the Sun to small applications. Read More
Unfortunately, there aren't many options
available for the visually impaired when it comes to timepieces. While a
number of talking watches and braille wristwatches with removable
covers are already on the market, those often draw attention to a
person's disability. That's why watchmaker Eone's debut timepiece, the
Bradley, indicates the time with magnetic ball bearings that can be read
subtly by touch. Read More
Art Museums regularly push the boundaries in
terms of architecture, but Beijing architecture studio MAD has gone one
step further by designing an artificial island to form the Pingtan Art
Museum. Dominated by three concrete mounds, the museum will feature
exhibit halls and public spaces and be linked to Pingtan Island by an
undulating pier. Read More
Watches are meant to keep time, but the UK-based firm of Bremont and the Bletchley Park Trust have teamed up to produce a watch that preserves
time. The Bremont Codebreaker is a limited edition chronograph that
uses original artefacts from the famous cryptographic facility to
commemorate British code breaking efforts during the Second World War.
Read More
McLaren engineers like to show off their prowess,
which they were happy to display in their 12C model, including the 12C
GT3 and the limited edition 12C GT Can-Am Edition.
This weekend's Goodwood Festival of Speed sees Mclaren GT roll out its
track-only variant, the 12C GT Sprint. Boasting enhanced handling,
aerodynamics and track focus, McLaren bills it as the bridge between the
standard 12C and the all-out racing versions. Read More
Picture books are a great way to encourage your
kids to embrace and enjoy reading. But as an adult, there're only so
many times you can read Aliens Love Underpants and remain sane.
The Sparkup Magical Book Reader is a device which clips onto books and
lets you record the audio for each page, so that your children can hear
you reading it to them as they flick through the pages on their own.
Read More
It's no secret the compact camera market is
taking a beating. Yes, people are taking more photos than ever, but not
on dedicated point-and-shoots. Increasingly they're reaching for their
smartphone when a photographic opportunity arises. Nikon President,
Makoto Kimura, told Bloomberg his company is well aware of this trend
and wants to create new products aimed at this bigger market, hinting at
the possibility of a smartphone by saying the company is considering a
"non-camera consumer product." Read More
Although never actually observed, it has long
been assumed that as our Solar System careers through the Universe, the
heliosphere, or solar bubble, has a tail trailing behind it like a
comet's. For the first time, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX), which was launched back in 2008, has mapped the boundaries of this tail, revealing it is shaped like a four-leaf clover. Read More
It's almost hard to believe that, just a few years ago, many of us used to tote around point-and-shoot cameras and
smartphones. How things have changed. Today the smartphone camera has
evolved to the point where it's the main camera for many amateur
photographers around the world. So it makes sense that more serious
camera phones like the Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom and the new Nokia Lumia 1020 would start popping up. Let's take a look at how the specs (and other features) of the two hybrid devices measure up. Read More
Just because the average crossover sees more time
on mall parking lot asphalt than on dirt doesn't mean that
manufacturers have abandoned the great outdoors completely. It just
means that crossovers designed to actually venture into the outdoors are
mostly concept cars and limited editions. BMW hasn't been shy about
releasing such concepts, including last year's X1 Concept K2 Powder Ride
and the all-new Concept Active Tourer Outdoor. Read More
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