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Qardio ECG Monitor Streams Data To Your IPhone
The co founder of Qardio Marco Peluso had a career in the finance industry for 14 years. He worked as an investment banker for JPMorgan and then as a partner at a hedge fund. But things changed when his father had a stroke while they were talking on the phone.... Read more
Now You Can Use The Samsung Galaxy Gear With Other Phones
The smartwatch niche is a booming one, with practically every manufacturer that matters making their own version. One of the most interesting smartwatches to come out this year is the Samsung Galaxy Gear. While Pebble and Cookoo have made it to the scene first, the Galaxy Gear certainly made... Read more
Google Reveals Modular Smartphone With Project Ara
Google’s phone firm Motorola has announced a new project that will allow users to build their own modular smartphone. Project Ara will let users buy a plastic phone structure, named an endoskeleton, and then add-on modules such as a keyboard, battery or other sensors, giving them flexibility to customize... Read more
Bluetooth Speaker P.A.C.O Makes Use Of Gesture Controls
Created by the Italy-based design studio Digital Habit(s), P.A.C.O is a minimalist Bluetooth speaker that boasts for gestural controls. The components of the loudspeaker is fabricated in concrete and a special type of wooden material called the Fir Harmonic Board. These materials directly influence the excellence of the sound... Read more
Sketch Stylus: For Paper And Tablet
In the age where everything can be written electronically, there’s so little need for real pens and pencils. However, Suck UK turned this notion around by producing a set of special pens called the Sketch Stylus. This item may look like your typical graphite pencil. The standard HB lead... Read more
Lexus IS 300h Car Paints Driver Portraits
Whereas most drivers are used to seeing their dashboard screens with rear-view cameras, Bluetooth phones and radio, one driver in Belgium gets to have a whole new different dash digital display. Walter Vanhaertent is the newest to own a hybrid vehicle that is bred with an artistic machinery. Lexus’... Read more
Brewbot Brews Craft Beers Through Smartphone
Love beer? Check out Brewbot, an automated brewing system which allows amateur to pro craft brewers to concoct their own infusions with just the use of their smartphones. This drinking companion is partnered with an app that guides the user from the beginning of the brewing process to the... Read more
Cyclists’ SEIL Bag Signals LED Traffic Signs
Cyclists, rejoice! You now have a way of communication on the roadside without your hands leaving the brakes. Korean designer and IT innovators at Lee Myung Su Studio has created a one of a kind bag pack that can help bikers go around the traffic. With the use of... Read more
Nokia Unveils The New Lumia 2520 Tablet
Nokia has released its first Windows tablet.  Nokia’s Lumia 2520 is the Finnish smartphone maker’s take on a Lumia-style tablet. It looks like a much bigger version of a Lumia Windows Phone.  Microsoft may be buying Nokia’s device business, but for the next few months they are going to... Read more
3D Printed Horse Shoes Could Win The Race
Scientists in Australia from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have worked together with horse trainer, John Moloney to produce 3D printed horse shoes made from titanium. It seems as though commercial 3D scanning and printing is a hot topic at the moment. The scientists at CSIRO... Read more
Microsoft Tests Eyewear to Rival Google Glass
According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is apparently jumping on the bandwagon and they are testing prototypes for optical wear similar to Google Glass.  This could potentially push the company into that market.  A source familiar with the project said the company has asked several component makers in Asia to... Read more
Rumors Of HTC Smart Watch With Camera
Smart watches have been extremely popular with developers lately it seems. According to a Bloomberg report, there is now another entrant for the race towards producing the best wrist wearable technology with a HTC smart watch. Readers of the Bloomberg article were led to believe that somebody with inside... Read more
Rio De Janeiro To Use NFC For Transport Tickets
Rio de Janeiro will be the first city in Brazil to launch a pilot program that enables NFC ticketing for public transport using mobile phones.  Partnerships with mobile operators and smartphone suppliers have allowed mobile phones to act as a RioCard Transit Card.  This initiative is a partnership between RioCard, Motorola... Read more
The 12inch Retina MacBook Rumor
Apple is always surrounded by whispers and rumors of upcoming devices to wow the public. One of the most recent rumors is centered on a 12inch Retina MacBook that could be released in either the second or third quarter of 2014. Ming Chi Kuo of KGI Securities is the... Read more
Bionic Man At Washington Air & Space Museum
A “bionic man” was the idea behind 1970s science fiction television show “The Six Million Dollar Man“.  The show followed the adventures of a character named Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was rebuilt using synthetic parts after he nearly died.  Forty years later and Science fiction has... Read more
Elon Musk To Transform The 007 Lotus Esprit “Submarine Car”
The iconic Lotus Esprit submarine car that featured in the 1977 Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me, has been snatched up by no other than Tesla’s Elon Musk. News has surfaced that Musk won the auction for the car with a bid of $866,000. What is even more... Read more
First Time Rocket Engine Technique Is Used Outside NASA
Students at the University of California San Diego (USCD) have tested a liquid fueled, 3D printed rocket engine using a technique that has never been used to build a rocket before anywhere in the World aside from NASA. The students have built and successfully test fired a rocket that... Read more
See Through Trucks Blocking The Road With Augmented Reality
There is nothing worse than being stuck behind a big lorry. It always seems to happen to me when I’m late for something and it always seems to be on a road that is not wide enough to be able to see round the vehicle to overtake. However Professor... Read more