Sort of speaks for itself, for those who did not get the see the lovely blood moon this past weekend, here is a version of it in real time, shot by N.A.S.A. Still pretty dang cool. Did seem like it was in an awful hurry for an eclipse, though. [Via Laughing Squid]
Stanford researchers have developed a flexible aluminium battery that charges in under a minute and may be safer than lithium-ion models. The downside is that it has a lower voltage than most rechargeable batteries. Rather than a solid casing, the battery consists of a pouch filled with two metals and a liquid. The anode is […]
One big problem right now with social media is the fact that many of us use it and end up being depressed because we compare our lives to the inaccurate lives we see show up in our feeds. So what if someone became aware of that problem and wanted to create a social network that […]
Calder Wilson is an artist who does very particular things your eyes have never seen before. By attaching fireworks to drones and then filming them using long exposure, he gets amazing works of art that look like some sort of advanced firefly mid-flight. Check out some of his other work at his site. A wild […]
In a stroke of genius, SnapPower has combined a 1-amp USB charger into a simple, thin wall coverplate! As of this writing, there are over 40 days left in its Kickstarter and already the project has exceeded it’s $35,000 by OVER TEN TIMES! Clearly the world is ready for this USB coverplate. And for as […]
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It’s that day of the year again when tech and internet firms prank their customers with April Fools’ Day stories. But this year the issue is confused by a couple of far-fetched stories that happen to be true. Amazon has already had to issue a denial that its new product Dash is a gag. It […]
Arguably the greatest tech demonstration in history has become an operatic drama. Avant-garde composers Mikel Rouse and Ben Neill have put together a “multimedia musical production” that will be performed at Stanford University tomorrow and on Wednesday. It’s based around a December 1968 presentation by Doug Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute. As we noted […]
The super-strong, super-light material graphene is getting another use: as a way to make LED lightbulbs cheaper and more efficient. The new bulbs will be produced by Graphene Lighting PLC, a commercial offshoot of the University of Manchester where the material was first isolated in 2003. That earned the Nobel Prize in Physics for Konstantin […]
The Unreal engine has always been an amazing and beneficial tool for game creators. Every time they release a new, updated version of their engine, they often release a sort of tech demo, too, highlighting just what the engine can do. In this case, Epic Games released a short film made using the engine, called […]