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Anyone who has spent some time playing on a gaming console knows just how it can take you to a whole new world (or dimension, if you want). However, there is something to be said about PC gaming, and everyone knows that that experience is hard to beat. Of... Read more
The Survival Slingshot
News February 16, 2014
An aerospace engineer from Texas has developed a slingshot so powerful, that it can kill a wild animal. Fitted with two mounting points, the standard Survival Slingshot comes with forty rounds of steel shot. There is even an Archer model, which allows the user to fire arrows from this... Read more
URB-E: The Fold Up Electric Scooter
News February 16, 2014
At the Consumer Electronic Show in January, the new up and coming gadget that seemed to get a lot of attention was the Urb-E scooter. The Urb-E scooter is currently live on crowdfunding website, Indiegogo. In order to get the scooter off the ground, the company is sending down the... Read more
Fish On Wheels Makes Life in a Fishbowl More Interesting
News February 15, 2014
I’ve never been a fish, obviously, so I’m not really an authority on their quality of life. (I did own a Beta fish once, though). But it seems to me that the life of a fish, especially the life of a fish in a fishbowl, would be all kinds... Read more
Some of you may remember Hugo Barra left Google last year to work over in China and undertake a job for Xiaomi. Hugo has just announced on his Google+ Xiami has a new Redmi smartphone. The Redmi line is a rebranding of their Hongmi products, for other global markets... Read more
Researchers Say Airport X-Ray Scanners Can Be Hacked
News February 14, 2014
Billy Rios and Terry McCorkie, two security researchers, have bought their own x-ray control machine on the internet and analyzed how it works in a bid to discover flaws. They found that the Threat Image Projection is possibly at threat from hackers. Designed to train x-ray operators and their... Read more
NASA is Creating Star Trek-Like Self Healing Medical Devices
News February 14, 2014
NASA is working with the Houston-based company GRoK Technologies on the development of tissue regeneration technology. The plan is to create non-invasive medical technologies designed to “regenerate bone and muscle tissues,” not too dissimilar to what we see on Star Trek. In the press release NASA explained it is... Read more
Jolla Releases Source Code For Sailfish Browser
News February 14, 2014
Finnish smartphone manufacturer, Jolla has just released the source code for the Sailfish OS browser. This move makes it the primary internal application for the operating system to be open sourced. The source code is to be found in the GitHub version control system, meaning that the Sailfish user community... Read more
Virgin Atlantic Will Check In Passengers With Wearable Tech Devices
News February 14, 2014
Heathrow airport has been chosen to run a pilot program for Virgin Atlantic, where staff in the upper class wing will check their business class passengers in via the use of either Sony’s smartwatch or Google Glass. The program will last for around six weeks but if it goes... Read more
NASA is Assessing Proposals For A Contract To Mine On The Moon
News February 13, 2014
NASA is examining proposals from private companies, who are bidding for the project to explore the moon for valuable resources like Helium 3 and other rare earth metals. It is possible than one or more of the companies will succeed in winning the contract to build capable robots for... Read more
NASA WASP Allows Ballons To Be Used As Observation Platforms
News February 13, 2014
Scientists have for a long time now, used balloons to transport certain types of telescopes far beyond the visible sky, into the stratosphere, to gain a clearer view of the object that they are trying to look at. If there is less atmosphere between the telescope and the planet,... Read more
Don’t Want To Buy Lamps? Use This USB Cork Light
News February 13, 2014
Do you find yourself with several glass bottles waiting to be thrown out? Could you use some extra light in your home and don’t want to go out and spend who knows what on lamps? If this sounds familiar, I think there’s a new product out there that can... Read more
Robot Snow Plough Saves You Going Out in The Cold
News February 13, 2014
In winter shifting snow is one of those jobs that everyone loves to hate. Come on admit it, you make your kids do it right? Well if you’re son or daughter has got wise to your ploy and no amount of pocket money will induce them to shift that... Read more
NYPD To Use Google Glass
News February 12, 2014
The boys in blue over at the New York Police Department have 2 pairs of the wearable tech, Google Glass. The experimental head-mounted computers are being trialled to determine their possible application to police work, the NYPD have said in a statement. The technology used in Glass, feeds information... Read more
Drone Hovers Over Fatal Car Wreck
News February 12, 2014
While it may be part of human nature to let our eyes linger longer than we should at the site of a car wreck, what’s not so normal is for a drone to do the same thing. Yet, that’s exactly what happened recently in Hartford, Connecticut. While the police... Read more
We all love an outsider’s chance, don’t we? Maybe it’s the renegade team who surpass insurmountable odds to win in the final minute of the game? I think Ubuntu is a bit like that, isn’t it? They have done really well over the last few years, in fact now... Read more
The meMINI Wearable Camera Captures Special Moments
News February 12, 2014
We’ve all done it; you experience something truly wonderful or hilarious but are unable to replay the moment because you didn’t have a camera to hand. However a new device called meMINI, allows you to save treasured moments as they happen, effectively giving you the ability of hindsight. Some... Read more
GoPro, the action camera manufacturer, has filed the initial documents for its IPO, according to a recent press release from the company. The announcement was brief and it only revealed that the San Mateo Company intends to go public, just as soon as the Securities and Exchange Commission completes its... Read more