Monday, November 2, 2015

3D printing hair is finally here!

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The world is becoming fascinated with 3D printing, eager to learn all of its capabilities. Another skill that we can tack on to its aptitude list is now creating hair. This innovation is great because people are now starting to open their mind towards creating more delicate bristle and fibrous components in objects without the expense of sourcing more hardware.

Biologic fabric uses living bacteria that reacts to the user’s sweat

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Smart clothes, which makes use of technology to benefit the wearer, has been undergoing lots of development lately, particularly in the areas of high-performance sports, where small details can make a huge difference to an athlete.

This project for the Beylikdüzü Recreational Valley and Bridges is breathtaking

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Designed by Turkish Melike Altınışık architects in collaboration with architect Elif Erdine, this project for the new bridges in the natural park of Beylikdüzü Valley are part of the Beylikdüzü Recreational Valley and Bridges National Competition, organized by Beylikduzu Municipality in Istanbul.

Self-driving pods use app to pick you up and can connect with other pods on the road

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We are getting to the point where autonomous self-driving cars are becoming a regular conversation topic. Everyday we hear new innovations and more manufactures investing in the technology that will inevitably take over life on the road. Italian innovators at NEXT take these concepts to the next level by introducing designs for transportation system that integrates connecting mobile pods for public transportation approach

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Never get lost again with this smart navigation device for bicycles


Setting itself apart from all the complex and fancy bicycle navigation devices in the market, BeeLine is presented as a simple and minimalist alternative to guide you around town

Saturday, October 31, 2015

15-year-old invents $12 probe that harnesses energy from ocean currents


Many of us have been bestowed the project of a pen pal in school. Teachers assign these projects in hopes of children being able to get a glimpse of another child’s life and culture, opening their mind to how other kids around the world live.

Monday, July 22, 2013

Technology of the Future: Checking on the Status of Flying Cars, Teleportation and More

If you’re reading this blog, you probably agree with us that the development of technology is basically the most fascinating thing ever. It’s strange to think, though, that when you look back at old movies and TV shows set in the future, you don’t really see anything like the Internet or Facebook-enabled smartphones

2013, where is hell my flying car?

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For decades pop culture has been telling us that flying cars were supposed to be all the rage of the 21st Century. Movies, TV shows and even cartoons have been fixated on the notion of flying cars.

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Apple Details 'Economic Impact' On Cupertino As It Readies New Spaceship-Inspired Campus


 
Apple AAPL -0.62% released an 82-page report today, detailing the “economic impact” the company has had on its hometown of Cupertino, California, and will continue to have on the local economy after  it builds a  proposed new spaceship-inspired headquarters called Apple Campus 2. Among the interesting data points: Apple’s “conservative” expectation that it will grow the number of Cupertino-based, full-time employees by a modest 10 percent in the next few years from its current headcount of 16,000.

Government Informant Adrian Lamo Testifies To Bradley Manning's 'Idealistic' Motives In Leak Trial


Adrian Lamo’s decision to finger Bradley Manning as one of WikiLeaks’ most prolific sources of secrets may have led to the young Army private’s arrest three years ago. But on Tuesday, Lamo provided courtroom testimony that could draw an important legal distinction in Manning’s motives: that Manning leaked his troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks for what Lamo believed were “idealistic” intentions, rather than a desire to aid America’s foreign enemies.
Responding to a series of questions from Manning’s attorney David Coombs, Lamo confirmed that he believed Manning to be “ideologically motivated,” “idealistic,” and “well-intentioned,” responding in the affirmative to each of those descriptions as Coombs offered them. Over several minutes, Lamo offered terse answers such as “yes” and “correct” to dozens of questions describing Manning and Lamo’s instant message chats in 2010, in which Manning confessed to Lamo that he had leaked thousands of classified Pentagon and State Department to WikiLeaks. Lamo later turned those chat logs over to Army investigators.

Social Networking Superstars


 

No. 1 Justin Bieber

Twitter followers: 15.4 million
Tweets: 12,537
Facebook fans: 38.2 million

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Why Enterprise Is Avoiding Windows 8

Despite Microsoft MSFT -0.73% shipping more than 100 million Windows 8 licenses, Redmond’s newest operating system is not making much headway in the enterprise world, with IT decision makers deciding to give it the cold shoulder.

Invasion Of The Machines: iRobot Hunts Bombs, Cleans Floors, Now Wants To Heal You This story appears in the June 10, 2013 issue of Forbes.

As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside. But the 45-year-old iRobot IRBT -2.95% cofounder and CEO isn’t testing out a toy–he’s putting a $100,000-plus piece of machinery to work, a remote-controlled 60-pound minitank with four cameras, rubber treads and a 6-foot extendable arm.

Can Data Storage Ever Reach An Absolute Limit?

Yes. The maximum possible amount of data you can cram into a given space is the Bekenstein bound.
So what does that translate to? Well, the E is actually mass-energy. But assuming your storage device is a spherical thing that has mass, the number of bits you can store is around (2.57*10^43)*(mass of your storage device in kg)*(radius of your storage device in m).

Yahoo's Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions

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Yahoo’s biggest acquisition to date took place in 1999 with its purchase of internet video streaming service Broadcast.com for $5.7 billion. Yahoo promised to