Just in time for Valentine’s day, here comes the Kissenger: a robot that can transmit kiss over the Internet. Check it out: Now that is what I call technology gone horribly wrong. It consists a pair of robots to transmit kiss over distance in real-time. Kissenger provides a novel way of transferring a kiss through […]
When it comes to building a gaming PC, I find the most overlooked feature is the Sound Card. On-board sound cards that come with higher end gaming capable motherboards are often more than good enough to feed a nice signal to your speakers. But leave it to the people at Creative Labs to once again […]
Experiments performed with a team of nano quadrotors at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania. Vehicles developed by KMel Robotics. [Via GTDW]
Filesharing as we know it involves transferring 0s and 1s that usually turn into pixels and electronic sounds. But if The Pirate Bay’s latest idea takes off, filesharing — and digital piracy — will get a whole lot more physical. In what appears to be as much as a publicity stunt as a serious feature, […]
Jim Henson made this film in 1963 for The Bell System. Specifically, it was made for an elite seminar given for business owners, on the then-brand-new topic — Data Communications. The seminar itself involved a lot of films and multimedia presentations, and took place in Chicago. A lengthy description of the planning of the Bell […]
Youtuber Kitanimboy, who has already made a few robotic children for various ad campaigns and TV shows, recently unveiled this creeptastic animatronic baby for an “anonymous Soap opera.” [Kitanimboy]
No, I did not get paid to post this, but as a geek who regularly work out, I know I want one of those incredibly cool-looking wristbands. Unfortunately, they’re currently sold out for now. The ergonomic NIKE+ FuelBand captures and displays four different metrics: time, calories, steps and NikeFuel – a new metric that will […]
There is a touchscreen window coming out from Samsung that has one way glass, upon which you can check your email, surf websites, or even close virtual blinds. This is by far the coolest thing I’ve seen in awhile. [Via Geekologie]
There are 12 inches in a foot. There are 12 months in a year. And thanks to IBM, there are 12 atoms in a bit. The company says it’s found a way of dramatically decreasing the space it takes to store computer data, raising the possibility of huge increases in storage capacity and utterly shattering […]
Manufacturing has begun on a Linux computer that costs just $25. But the British developers have conceded they will have to outsource production overseas to make it viable. The long-running project aims to cut costs by reducing a computer to its most basic components while still having all the functionality you’d expect from modern hardware. […]