Here we have Anthony Ha from Tech Crunch interviewing Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus – a company that’s trying to create some really high quality VR gaming with the “Oculus Rift” headset. And he wants to make it available to the “average […]
I want that 84″ display. Seriously. It would look totally awesome in my basement. No info on price though, so I’ll likely won’t be able to afford it. Image source: Best Choice Reviews
LG is launching a 55 inch OLED television with a screen described as “the thickness of three credit cards.” However, the launch appears to be as much about beating rivals to the punch as a serious commercial proposition. The screens will cost 11 million won, which is equivalent to just over US$10,000. It’s probably going […]
The last survivor of the group of codebreakers who cracked a German cipher machine in the second world war has been honored by the Queen. Jerry Roberts has accepted the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) award but is still campaigning for his colleagues to be recognized in the same way. Roberts, […]
The HyTAQ robot has been developed in the Robotics Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), part of the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department. It is a novel mobile robot capable of both aerial and terrestrial locomotion. Flight is achieved through a quadrotor configuration; four actuators provide the required thrust. Adding a rolling cage […]
That thing may be a little noisy, but hey, it can carry around 400 lbs of equipment everywhere it goes. The LS3 program seeks to demonstrate that a highly mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot can carry 400 lbs of a squad’s equipment, follow squad members through rugged terrain and interact with troops in a natural way […]
Poor Microsoft, I’m kind of sad for them right now. [Via]
Boeing has found a very low-tech method for testing a high-tech service: it’s used 20,000 pounds of potatoes to test Wi-Fi signals on planes. The bizarre sounding technique was necessary because the company wants to improve its Wi-Fi to make signal strength more consistent throughout a plane without it interfering with on-board electrical systems. Boeing […]
Computers will have the ability to mimic human senses in five years according to IBM. But not only is this more guesswork than informed forecast, but the way in which each sense will be incorporated varies hugely. The suggestion comes in IBM’s annual “5 in 5” report in which the company’s analysts come up with […]
The threat of either Apple or Samsung products being pulled from the shelves has largely faded away thanks to two key developments in the ongoing legal saga between the two. The first comes in the most high-profile case, the mutual lawsuits in the US that wound up with Apple getting a $1.05 billion judgment. Judge […]