A highly automated military plane that crashed in Spain appears to have been hit by a software fault. The Airbus A400M, which was being tested before going into active service, crashed shortly after take off last month killing four out of the six crew members. The crash happened when three of the four turboprop engines […]
If you saw the wonderful, brilliant, hilarious movie we posted last week, Kung Fury, then you certainly remember the character of Hackerman. His computer skills were all but unrivaled, and without him on the team, they would not have been able to achieve the time traveling which was an essential element to their journey. But […]
Self-healing aircraft wings could be a practicality according to a British professor. The same technology could work on crash helmets, phone screens and even nail varnish. The Royal Society will host a presentation this week about the technology from the Wass Research Group, based at the University of Bristol. The group’s leader, Professor Duncan Wass, […]
Can you imagine what it would be like to wake up to the beautiful scent of a warm croissant every day instead of a buzzing alarm clock? Well, good news. Soon (hopefully) you can. SensorWake, which is on Kickstarter right now, is the alarm clock we have all been dreaming about. It uses the waft […]
HD camera drones (and drones in general) are becoming huge right now. Whether being used for war tactics or being used by some stoners to shoot fireballs at themselves and film it, drones are proving to be the next step in our technological revolution. The Code Black HD camera drone looks to take it even […]
In a leap for robotic development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs — making this the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously. [MIT]
A newly-built city in New Mexico will never have any permanent human residents. That’s because it’s been built as a tech test ground. The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (CITE) will cover 15 square miles and be designed as if it were home to 35,000 people. It’ll have all the types of business, retail […]
Yes, you read that title correctly. While it may not be the hoverboard we were all wishing for when we first saw Back to the Future 2, this is about as close as we have come yet. Jeez, I didn’t even know this thing existed and people are already breaking records on the thing? Man, […]