LG has announced the G Watch, one of the first smartwatches to be powered by Google's new Android Wear
operating system. The news was released as part of a coordinated launch
by Google and its partners on Tuesday. The G Watch continues LG's foray
into the wearables market following the Lifeband Touch. Read More
We knew that Google was cooking up a version of
Android designed specifically for wearables, and today the company
followed through. Android Wear is a Google Now-centric platform for
smartwatches – and, eventually, other wearables as well. Read More
French architectural firm Multipod Studio
recently unveiled a new sustainable house prototype that's lightweight,
recyclable, and promises to be an inexpensive purchase and extremely
efficient to run. The suitably-named Pop-Up House also boasts another
notable selling-point: all that's required to assemble it is four day's
patience and a standard electric screwdriver. Read More
Researchers from King's College London working
with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have produced a
skinsuit which, if worn by astronauts in outer space, could counteract
the degradation of bone and muscle mass during long term exposure to
microgravity. Read More
If you've shopped for an iPad anytime during the
last few years, you've probably run into the iPad 2. Not only was it the
flagship model during 2011, but it hung around as the budget full-sized
model for two full years after that. Well, you can finally kiss the
iPad 2 goodbye, as Apple just laid it to rest in favor of the much more
powerful iPad 4. Read More
Wooden-framed bikes are things of undeniable beauty, but they're also highly prized for their smooth ride capabilities. At the North American Handmade Bicycle Show,
Chris Connor of Denver-based Connor Wood Bicycles introduced us to a
new mountain bike named DURT, that's had sections of the steam-bent,
locally-sourced reclaimed wooden frame reinforced with Kevlar for a
gorgeous combination of strength, beauty and performance. Read More
In high-density areas like the Taiwanese capital
of Taipei, people have long looked to expand vertically to make use of
the limited land, resulting in a lack of vegetation, high humidity and
high energy usage. According to Unicode, a team of Taiwanese architects
and designers, 50 percent of the county's housing constructions are
either common multiple-story rowhouses or larger duplex apartment
buildings, many of which have illegal makeshift shelters on their
rooftops to provide extra living space. Unicode has developed a concept
house which would give these shelters a greenhouse-inspired makeover,
shifting reliance to renewable energy sources and improving Taipei's
sustainability in the process. Read More
Horatio Hornblower meets Jean-Luc Picard on the
ship’s bridge of 2025 as Finnish applied research organization VTT and
Rolls-Royce present their vision of seafaring ten years from now.
Presented in 3D animation videos that projects current technology to the
near future, the study shows a world where ship captains call on
heads-up displays and high-tech workstations turn the bridge into an
augmented reality command and control system. Read More
In 2010, Stanford University researchers reported harnessing energy directly from chloroplasts,
the cellular "power plants" within plants where photosynthesis takes
place. Now, by embedding different types of carbon nanotubes into these
chloroplasts, a team at MIT has boosted plants' ability to capture light
energy. As well as opening up the possibility of creating "bionic
plants" with enhanced energy production, the same approach could be used
to create plants with environmental monitoring capabilities. Read More
Thanks to the Geneva Motor Show, "supercars," including the Koenigsegg One:1 and Pagani Zonda Revolucion,
have been a major focus of automotive news this month. But one supercar
that debuted just prior to the show and didn't make an appearance in
Geneva is the Arash AF8 – a light, lithe British exotic sports car with a
big 7.0-liter engine. Read More
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