By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Doc Brown’s Delorean may soon have some competition. Okay, this one won’t travel time, but it will function a bit like the train-adapted machine from the movie’s third installment. Toyota is working on a new “road-rail” vehicle that will — as the name implies — travel along the tracks, […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] I’m thinking about trading in my girlfriend for a few really advanced robots. Hang on a sec — I know it sounds bad. But hear me out. Scientists are making leaps and bounds with these things right now. I mean, they’ve come up with artificial life that can conduct […]
For its 75th anniversary, Lacoste released this video envisioning what tennis could look like 75 years from now. Check out this guy’s outfit… it looks totally awesome. Gotta love the futuristic shoes and racquet too! Video after the jump.
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] All right, surveillance junkies, I’ve got a new one for you: a just-developed device that can turn your air conditioning system into a sophisticated home monitoring tool. Shwetak Patel of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta came up with the protocol, featured in New Scientist today. The tool […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Prepare yourself for what may be the most powerful remote ever made: the mind-reading hat. Scientists from Taiwan have just finished developing the first protocol of this thing. Aside from a rather obvious antenna jutting out the back, the hat looks stylish enough. But this baby isn’t about fashion; […]
There are few things in life that I hate more than spam. But I hate receiving one type of message even more: delivery status notifications for spam that was sent to bad email addresses, spoofing my address as the sender. Lately, I’ve been getting a couple hundred of these per day. Of course, that means that […]
By Patrick Biz Contributing Writer, [GAS] With HD DVD now buried six feet under and all major Hollywood studios onboard in the Blu-ray camp, the stars are aligned for next-generation format sales to finally take off. Surprisingly, prices aren’t falling, and customers still aren’t buying. The War Has Just Begun Don’t laugh, Blu-ray vs. DVD […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] Watch out, Power Glove: There’s a new sensor-based item on the market, and this one has the potential to change lives. A team of computer engineering students at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a glove that can convert hand movements into spoken words. The idea is to give deaf […]
By JR Raphael Contributing Writer, [GAS] It’s no secret cell service isn’t cheap. What you may not know, though, is how many cool tools are out there just waiting to make your life easier. Most of them are free, and all of them will help you get more bang for your buck. So grab your […]
Despite the joke in the image above, it certainly seems that the web “hearts” Unicode. According to Mark Davis of Google, the use of Unicode on the web has recently surpassed both ASCII and Western European encodings, as shown by the blue line in the chart below: In case you can’t read it, the red […]