The 80’s were kind of hilarious. From the bright, flashy colors of the clothing to the oddly soothing tones of the new wave music, it is not an easy decade to forget. What a lot of people fail to remember about the 80’s is that they laid down a great foundation of geekery in many […]
You can’t even argue with that. We think we love all this tech, but the truth is, it sort of keeps us as its servants. Funny to think what would evolve if we chose to step away from it all for awhile and just live life again. [Source: AmazingSuperPowers]
The battle for the smartphone market seems pretty cut throat. On one side, you have the iPhoners, and on the other side you seem to have the Androiders. But there have been a bevvy of competitors that have taken the smartphone game to new levels. One of those competitors is Samsung, whose popularity has spiked […]
Would you pay $300 for the ability to make a pancake in any shape you like? Well, thanks to a successfully funded Kickstarter project, you’ll get your chance to do so. You may remember last year we wrote about a 3D printer that can process food into virtually any shape and design you like. Understandably […]
With Chappie coming out this month and looking to add another awesome ‘good guy’ robot to the cinematic universe, we figured what better time than now to come up with a list of some of our favorite good guy robots from the world of cinema. Keep in mind, there are dozens upon dozens of good […]
A solar-powered plane has completed the first leg of a round-the-world flight. The plan is to eventually circumnavigate the globe without ever using fossil-derived fuels. The plane, Solar Impulse 2, started with a short leg, flying the 500 miles from Abu Dhabi to Muscat in around 12 hours. The journey isn’t even close to non-stop. It’s […]
Self-driving cars could boost online business revenue by $140 billion a year according to a consulting firm. It’s one of a number of projections made by McKinsey & Company, though some of them are ambitious projections to say the least. The figure is based on the idea that the average driver would gain an extra […]
AVG has attracted attention with a pair of spectacles designed to fool facial recognition systems. Though they build upon previous attempts, they are still very much at the concept stage. You may remember the first such gadget was unveiled a couple of years ago by Isao Echizen of the National Institute of Informatics in Japan. […]
The developers of a video game say it could help treat people with the lazy eye condition. Dig Rush adjusts the graphics to force players to use both eyes to progress through the game. Lazy eye, which is also called amblyopia, is a condition that can develop in childhood and involves visual impairment in one […]
A Barbie with a built-in camera is essentially the tackiest and freakiest way a grown man could ever take a photo of anything. I am sure tech savvy kids and progressive minded pervs will find uses for it, though. Scary uses I don’t even wanna think about right now, actually. Also, gotta love that 0.3 […]