By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] The “Peapod,” by GEM (green eco mobility)—financed and designed by Chrysler—is pretty much a preposterous mashup of a Tesla Roadster and an AMC Pacer: zero-emissions electric vehicle meets mobile aquarium! As with the ill-fated Pacer of the ’70s, that vast expanse of glass looks terrific style-wise (well, I’m in […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] That’s right – yet another upgrade to the mighty JesusPhone. Why do we report on this stuff? Because people want to know, that’s why! iPhone users received an email today telling them to upgrade to firmware version 2.2. It’s been a little while since a major upgrade was made, […]
Thanks to a partnership between the Max Planck institute and MITs Media Lab, a whole new, revolutionary, zero-power display technology has been unveiled. The technology allows a picture of a still object to react to a light source just as it would in the real world. Check it out: Now, try to imaine the possibilities […]
We’ve been talking about how multi-touch technologies would soon make spatial gesture computing a possibility, a bit like what we see happening in Steven Spielberg’s movie, Minority Report. Well folks, it seems that the day when we’ll be able to manipulate data and object in real 3D space isn’t that far off. Dubbed g-speak, Oblong‘s […]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] You know what’s cooler than a robot that can play the violin? A robot that can play the flute. Watch as this anthropomorphic flutist robot owns Flight of the Bumblebee: Of course, what good is a robot that just sits around and plays music all day? You may as […]
Google’s PageRank algotrithm certainly has its detractors, among them people who feel that using links as ‘votes’ for a site’s importance isn’t the smartest way to get the best content. Unsurprisingly, librarians fit within this group, and they set out to determine what Google would look like if the weight of search results were powered […]
We’ve been hearing about this imminent technology for a while, but today researcher Xiaomei Jiang said that spray-on solar cells have been successfully tested as a power source for microscopic machines. Jiang and her colleagues used flexible polymer as a base instead of silicon, which is brittle. The researchers at the University of South Florida […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] A US admiral wants American warships in the Middle East to be equipped with microwave “pain ray” cannons to avoid having to use deadly force. Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, in command of the US 5th Fleet, wants the weapons so they can be used against smaller boats at close […]
A lot of people, including me, think that mice are cute little creatures. But no one I know would like to have the little pests roaming free inside their home. Not only can mice contaminate your dry food stock and clothing with their droppings and urine, but they are also known to gnaw on electrical […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] You know what they say… when you’ve got lemons, turn them into lemonade. And when you’ve got rampant video piracy, find a way to milk some ad revenue out of it. The “fingerprint” technology that we’ve been hearing about from YouTube is making its way in some form to […]