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The First Thought-Controlled Bionic Leg
News October 3, 2013
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) and Northwestern University (NWU) have developed the first bionic thought-controlled leg. It took four years for the team to complete the project and cost $8 million. You may not realise it but thought-controlled limbs are not a new thing. Bionic arms and hands... Read more
XiaoMi announced their newest flagship, the Mi3, on September 5th. They are going to be producing the Mi3 with two different chipsets. The Tegra 4 version will be carried by China Mobile with TS-CDMA connectivity. XiaoMi is also constructing a Snapdragon 800 variant designed to run on China’s WCDMA/GSM network.... Read more
Charge Your iPhone By Hand
Mobile October 2, 2013
Mipwr, the mobile technology innovation group have been thinking long and hard about emergency power sources for mobile phones and they have come up with a solution that relies on years old technology. With the Mipwr case, you can protect and charge your iPhone by hand. Dynamo Electricity The... Read more
Vendors have been working with various software companies in order to change the face of vending machines drastically. The biggest revolution in the world of vending machines was when they began to accept notes and that was many years ago. Since then, vending machines have been the same as... Read more
Tesco Hudl Tablet Is Priced At £119
Mobile October 2, 2013
Shopping giant Tesco launches a seven inch tablet computer very reasonably priced at £119; the name of this low end piece of kit is the Hudl. The supermarket retailer is in high hopes that the colourful Android-operated gadget will attract customers who might not have been able to afford... Read more
McAfee’s Decentral Anti NSA Device For Under $100
News October 1, 2013
John McAfee is a very unusual man. He was previously employed by NASA, in the 1980’s he began developing software to combat computer viruses and in 1987 he started up McAfee Associates, his Anti Virus Company. He is now 68 years old and still very active in the technology... Read more
Brewbot Makes Home Brewing Easy With A Smartphone
News October 1, 2013
Cargo, the creative team from Belfast, Northern Ireland have come together with the creators of creative consultancy Mette to make home brewing the easiest it has ever been. Not only is home brewing easy with the aptly named Brewbot machine, it makes brewing consistent, something that anyone whose tried... Read more
Makerbot Digitizer Makes Cloning Objects Simple
News September 30, 2013
Brooklyn based 3D printer guru’s MakerBot will be shipping their Digitizer in October. The MakerBot Digitizer takes a 3D object, scans is and creates a 3 dimensional design file. These design files can then be used with a 3D printer to make a physical clone of the original object.... Read more
HP Chromebook 14 is The First Chromebook With Intel Haswell
News September 29, 2013
Say hello to the new HP Chromebook 14: Hewlett Packard’s new laptop is the first of the Chromebook series with an Intel Haswell processor.The UK model will only have 3G, but there is a 4G version available in US markets. Selected deals in the US can get consumers up... Read more
NASA Technology Could Help Save Lives
News September 29, 2013
The first minutes and hours following a natural disaster are crucial if lives are to be saved. NASA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security are working together to produce a device that can detect heartbeats and breathing patterns of victims trapped beneath debris. For first response services precious... Read more
Carbon Nanotube Computer Technology Breakthrough
News September 27, 2013
Researchers at the Stanford University announced on Wednesday that they have created the first-ever working carbon nanotube computer. They published their discovery in this week’s edition of Nature. The researchers, led by professors Subhasish and H.S Philip Wong call it “CEDRIC”, which they say loosely stands for carbon nanotube... Read more
Tokina Makes Rain Dispersion Filter
NewsSoftware Reviews September 27, 2013
One of the major problems with videography is the unpredictability of the weather. Wet weather can mean extra cost for production due to the fact that the majority of the day is spent trying to wipe the camera lens clean. Eventually the cloth stops working as it’s saturated with... Read more
James The Robot Bartender Knows When You Want A Drink
News September 25, 2013
James the robot bartender will chat, serve and recognize when you want drinks thanks to the partnership of a team of professors from Germany, Scotland and Greece. The birth of robot bar tenders isn’t particularly newsworthy as there have been other attempts before James. However James, the Joint Action... Read more
Valve Announce SteamOS, The Operating System For Living Room Gaming
Gaming September 24, 2013
Valve has revealed its very own Linux-based operating system called SteamOS, which is designed for living room gaming PCs. This is the first step towards it achieving its vision for an open video game console, which it has named Steam Box. “It will be available soon as a free... Read more
When Microsoft released the Surface Pro obviously it hoped that it would do well but unfortunately it didn’t create the anticipated stir of excitement amongst consumers. So with the revealing of the new Surface Pro 2, can Microsoft deliver a more appealing device? Well new features suggest that Microsoft... Read more
Sony Smartwatch 2 vs Samsung Galaxy Gear
MobileSoftware Reviews September 23, 2013
The smartwatch has been around for some time but the technology of the devices brought to market so far haven’t been the Secret Service/James Bond style that everyone pictures when they say the word “smartwatch”. Now though, Sony and Samsung seem to have stepped up their game and are... Read more
“Terminator” Regenerating Polymer
News September 23, 2013
Robots’ self-healing abilites in the Terminator films are the inspiration behind the name of a new self-healing polymer that has been discovered by researchers at the CIDETEC Centre for Electrochemical Technologies in San Sebastian, Spain. Synthetic polymers, which can be found in all kinds of materials, are different from... Read more
Miniature 3D Printed Organs Used For Testing Vaccines
News September 20, 2013
Doctors at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine are using miniature human organs that have been produced with a modified 3D printer to test new vaccines. The “body on a chip” project has been backed by the US Department of Defense with $24 million. These are the first... Read more