In recent years, I’ve seen plenty of homemade solutions where enterprising geeks have tried combining the necessity of earning a living with the joy of having a great workout. There’s plenty of videos of people using treadmill/stationary bike/workdesk combos on YouTube with unfortunately inconsistent degrees of effectiveness. Three weeks ago, after Googling about a “professional” […]
Apple has applied for a patent on having an additional display, possibly with touch input, built into a flexible cover for the iPad. The application was filed last year but has only just been made public by the US Patent & Trademark Office. It appears to be an enhanced version of the design used for […]
We hear a lot of debate about the balance between personal freedom and the dangers of distracted driving when it come to smartphones. But now it appears those dangers are becoming an issue for pedestrians. The Associated Press reports that, based on reports from 100 emergency rooms, an estimated 1,152 people needed hospital treatment in […]
Small spaces are difficult to live in, and while we usually are only regulated to these small hidey holes while we’re in college or university, there are a lot of things we can do to maximize that living space cheaply and effectively. The point is that it’s not what you have, but what you do […]
One of the great things about being a geek is no longer having to make excuses for why you buy toys. I personally own more Transformers than my kids. But also, there are some toys that are made for adults that use science in a very fun way. For instance Buckyballs. If you don’t already […]
I kinda wet myself a little bit when I saw this. I mean how awesome would this be on your bedside table? Or on your coffee table at a party? I’m quite sure I’m not the only one with geeky enough friends to appreciate how cool it is to have Tetris blocks that you can […]
Twitter has a really varied clientele, from well communicating social media junkies right down to those very same social media junkie’s dogs. But now an inanimate object hopes to communicate with its followers with the gift of music. @StanleyPiano is a unique Twitter account connected to a piano. A player piano. A Player Piano is […]
Seems the days of surfing the Internet in the little black and white browser of the Kindle to your hearts content has come to an end. Apparently, some users have experienced a bandwidth warning, alerted to a “50MB limit”. They were then informed that they would be allowed only 24 hours more of surfing and […]
Students at Northeastern University have developed a rugged robot that deploys Wi-Fi where it goes and uses GPS and its own Wi-Fi for control, meaning its range is pretty much limitless. It also has the ability to drop repeater units in order to broaden its range and has an on-board camera to help the operator […]
Developers at Autonomous ID, in partnership with researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have set up the “Pedo-Biometrics Research and Identity Automation Lab” to create sensors in footwear that can find out all about who you are. Christened “BioSole”, a device that Autonomous ID has been working on since 2009 is supposedly able to identify your […]