A new technology looks to appease those wanting a sleek touch screen with the tactile feedback of a real button.
According to the MorphPad company rep, the technology is only available in a few devices in Japan, but it will likely make its way to the US at some point. She did mention [...more]
Well, we wouldn’t be a blog without a little bit of Oscar coverage now, would we? Cool factoid: 9 out of the ten documentaries nominated for Best Documentary or Best Short Documentary were cut on Apple’s own Final Cut Pro.
This is pretty cool news for the do-it-yourself filmmaker – until a few years ago, all [...more]
Bikers could soon have a little extra help with those tricky hills thanks to the technology behind hybrid cars.
Finally, the most efficient machine is even easier to use thanks to Sanyo’s series of hybrid bikes.
The series of bikes has been getting more advanced over the years, and the new SPL [...more]
An Indian satellite doing a flyover with a NASA radar spotted tons, and tons, and tons of ice — 600 million metric tons worth.
The 1.3 trillion pounds of ice are very interesting to moon scientists and NASA explorers who could potentially use the ice to create water and to eventually create oxygen [...more]
I have yet to spend any real time with Google Buzz, and as such I’ve been looking for an easy way to turn it off. Like lots of email obsessives, I hate having a folder that has a ton of unread messages, so Buzz’s constant reminder that it exists has been a thorn in my [...more]
MIT researchers are taking 3D video to the actual third dimension with their prototype system of flying swarms of robot displays.
Yup, read that again — I’ll wait.
I know!! What?!
The video from MIT distills all the pertinent information, but doesn’t capture the scope that something like this could have. Hypothetically, [...more]
A new site designed to waste your time shows you just what any Web site would sound like. I spent far, far too long plugging in every Web site. I must say, Techomaly.com is the best!
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The military is looking for a better way to cut through the challenges of listening to radio chatter in several dialects when every word and second counts.
Currently, the military passes around the radio to interpreters who piece it together but lose a lot in the translation.
Darpa’s is experimenting with a system [...more]
Police in the UK made what appears to be the first drone-assisted arrest on record.
The drone flew above the crime scene and helped officers find an alleged car thief using infrared imaging.
A suspected car thief was believed to be hiding from police in thick undergrowth in Bootle, Merseyside, so officers launched [...more]
Star Wars & Star Trek fans can agree on one thing, and only one thing: lasers are great at putting on ships to shoot other things. And now we have them in real life!
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman slapped a huge laser on the front of a modified 747, then used it to shoot down a [...more]