A GPS-controlled drone video camera to be released next year can film you wherever you go without interfering with your activities. The problem is that it’s very expensive and has a severely limited battery life. The Lily camera connects wirelessly with a small receiver that fits into your pocket or on your wrist. Once you throw […]
Google has suspended a tool that let users edit a version of Google Maps, following a series of high-profile prank edits. The company says it can’t keep up with the number of manual reviews needed. Map Maker has been running since 2008 and is effectively a separate, wiki-like version of the main map service. The […]
Adventure Time might just be the greatest cartoon to ever exist. From the way it pleases all members of its audience from young to old, to its downright surreal and trippy moments, it’s not a show you see once and forget. But what about people who have never seen the show or feel they need […]
A $9 computer project has been fully funded on Kickstarter. As you’d expect, CHIP is pretty bare-boned, with extra costs for some connections, though a $49 touchscreen version is the most interesting configuration. The basic edition of CHIP is effectively the circuit board ripped out of a bargain-basement Linux mini-PC. Most of the connections are […]
Nintendo has agreed a deal with Universal Parks and Resorts to bring game-themed attractions to its theme parks. The two companies have offered virtually no details on exactly what it will entail and it appears their creative departments have yet to work out the specifics. However, they have said that “Nintendo’s most famous characters and […]
The original cellphone casual game is back: Snake is being relaunched as Snake Rewind for Android, iOS and Windows. While the game dates back in various forms to the 1970s, its most famous version came preloaded on Nokia phones in the late 1990s, right at the time that owning a cellphone became genuinely mainstream. That […]
The Oculus Rift has finally got a confirmed consumer release date — but it’ll be next year before you can play it. It follows a couple of years of demos and prototypes. Oculus says the virtual reality device will be available for pre-orders later this year and then ship to consumers in 2016. There’s still no […]
There were many people left saddened by the cancellation of the Doctor Who spinoff, Torchwood. It was a show awash in mystery and many of those mysteries did not get the time to work themselves out proper. Good news for fans of that series, as it is coming back, but not the Torchwood you remember. […]
A company inspired by Nikola Tesla says it can extend iPhone battery life by 30 percent by harnessing wasted radio frequency energy. It’s working with Ohio State University to produce and sell a case using the technology. The case from Nikola Labs appears to be an offshoot of existing devices known as a rectenna (rectifying […]
IBM researchers say they’ve found a better way to detect and correct errors that could compromise quantum computing. Specifically, they can detect two types of error at the same time, something previously not possible. Quantum computing is based around a simple, if somewhat mindnumbing concept. ‘Traditional’ computing breaks information down into bits, which can each […]