It would be the conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landing never happened that would be first in line, I would think, for a commercial trip to the moon, to witness the site for themselves and analyze whether it was all set up or not. However, NASA is less concerned with the conspiracy theorists than [...]
What is this world coming to when a person is assaulted because someone took offence to their medical prosthetic? That is essentially what happened when Dr. Steve Mann from Toronto, Ontario was on vacation with his family. Dr. Mann uses a form of “wearable computing” known as an Eye Glass – a prosthetic Augmediated Reality [...]
In the mobile device world there is a heated battle between the most popular handset creators. Research in Motion’s BlackBerry once tore up the market, but with the onset of the iPhone and then Google’s Android platform, the future is no longer certain. Now, what is certain is that BlackBerry is no longer a real [...]
Dark matter has been something that astrophysicists have postulated about for some time – matter we cannot see but must exist for things to make sense in the universe. A new technique has been demonstrated in a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society that indicates that entirely starless galaxies conclusively [...]
Cyber bullying has been on the rise in the last decade and the main facilitator has been the social network boom. Facebook’s latest scheme to combat this distasteful use of our freedom of communication targets the 13 to 14-year-old user who may feel too intimidated to hit the site’s “report” button. The new button says [...]
On July 20th, the so-called Ocean X Team will be launching their third expedition to explore and analyze an anomaly on the floor of the Baltic Sea such as they have never seen before. And it just so happens to look like the Millennium Falcon. Peter Linberg and Dennis Asberg joined their diving forces in [...]
A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to cross paths with Alex James and Sean May from Nerds with Guitars when they performed at the Launch Party for Hammer Comics in Hamilton, Ontario. After watching them perform, we swept them away from the raving fans to sit and chat. Alex and Sean met through [...]
At Google’s I/O conference the giant company offered developers the chance to be the first to get their hands on the revolutionary Project Glass augmented reality devices in a Glass Explorer edition. The glasses are pretty incredible tech with some really intriguing possibilities, changing the way we share our personal experiences. From creating more realistic [...]
Being the physics nerd I am, finding out that the announcement of the results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in the search for the Higgs Boson was going to be made in my city (Melbourne) at the High Energy Physics conference on the 4th of July, had me acting like quite the [...]
I do credit a lot of my life skills to a wide variety of experiences, but a lot of them came from a strong background in Scouting. My former group was on the first episode of Discovery’s Canada’s Greatest Know-it-All challenging adult braggart Jack of all Trades to some of the more commonplace skills that [...]
Great Scott! It is the Future!! Hold your horses there McFly, that image above is a simple but apparently effective photoshopping of the time console in the Back to the Future DeLorean. It is fake. Just like the one someone made two years ago that had everyone calling 2010 “The Future” Yesterday, this image was [...]
If you weren’t already aware, you have a Facebook email address, ending in facebook.com. And now Facebook is attempting a full domination of the communication world, by swirling together SMS, IM and email into one big Facebook messaging system. They introduced a Facebook messaging app for smartphones, separate from the (crappy) Facebook app, in order [...]