An “antisocial” app offers users the ability to avoid people who you aren’t too keen on seeing in real life. The app is something of an anti-Foursquare. You connect it to other applications (including Instagram and Foursquare itself) and then get a map of any of your contacts who are near you, along with an […]
The ARM-powered CUBESTORMER 3 robot has smashed the Guinness World Record for solving a Rubik’s cube, recording a time of 3.253 seconds at the Big Bang Fair in Birmingham, UK. [ARMflix | Via]
The American pay-TV industry as a whole has had an overall drop in subscribers for the first time. But even if it’s evidence of “cord-cutting,” the firms involved haven’t really lost out much. There have been a few cases before where individual cable firms have had a quarterly decline in pay-TV subscribers. Now Leichtman Research […]
Wearable technology is no longer this vague idea we think of from sci-fi films. While walking around downtown Austin during SXSW, I stopped noticing how many people were outfitted with their Google Glasses or Samsung Smartwatches anymore. It was just as commonplace an accessory as a hat or sunglasses. These devices, which create a deeper, […]
The recent 2014 SXSW (South by Southwest) Festival in Austin, Texas featured a Game of Thrones exhibit. Within that exhibit, however, was a virtual reality simulator called Oculus Rift. Actress Maisie Williams (‘Arya Stark’) was one of the GoT actors on-site who tried the new gaming system. After stepping into a tiny cage-like room, she […]
Sony and Panasonic have confirmed details of their planned successor to the Blu-ray format, which will be officially known as Archival Disc. A 300GB edition is coming next summer, with a plan to eventually release a one terabyte version. As we noted last July, the two firms had both been working on archival technology that […]
Georgia Tech has developed a prosthetic arm that can play the drums following instructions from a human’s biceps — even if their arm is amputated at the elbow. According to a press release: The prosthesis was created for Jason Barnes, a drummer who was electrocuted two years ago and lost his right arm below the […]
Pizza Hut has asked designers Chaotic Moon Studios to come up with a way to create your custom pizza without having to rely on your imagination. The interactive table, which is currently just a concept, lets you use touchscreen controls on your tabletop to not just pick your crust, sauce and toppings, but see a […]
Amazingly this image is neither edited nor taken from sci-fi, but is a screengrab from a NASA video. It’s taken from testing of Project Morpheus: The Morpheus project provides an autonomous, reusable, rocket-powered, terrestrial vertical take-off/vertical landing vehicle for testing integrated spacecraft and planetary lander technologies. The integrated vertical test bed (VTB) offers a platform […]
Two Kickstarter users are looking for just under $50,000 to develop a smartphone app and equipment for turning photographs into nail polish stickers. 1. DESIGN. The FREE NailSnaps mobile app lets you design exactly how you want your photo or image to appear on your nails. Create an image that spans across your nails, or pick and choose different […]