Heel and toe of the foot give way, making for a more natural step than other prosthetics. The foot also provides a little push with the toe at the end of a step, pushing the wearer forward like a real foot would.
A typical prosthesis doesn’t reproduce the force a living ankle exerts to [...more]
This news item is for an incredibly specific audience. Here’s who I image you are: You’re male, and you’re concerned about the environment. At least, your girlfriend is so you have to play along. You love sports cars with power and acceleration. You’re not rich, but you desperately want to appear rich. If you meet [...more]
In a really interesting but slightly confusing study, scientists showed that kindness is contagious — even if it doesn’t make sense.
Political scientist James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University published their study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Basically, [...more]
Here at Technomaly, we’ve decided to launch new, weekly features designed to turn you onto our favorite parts of the web. Features like “Webcomic Wednesday” and “Flash Friday” will be running until we run out of good websites to turn you onto. Today’s Webcomic Wednesday: Achewood.
This strip is part of Achewood’s most famous arc, The [...more]
This really interesting clock uses several small analog clocks to make up numerals.
It’s a concept clock, so you won’t see it soon, but what an interesting concept.
There is an interesting demo of the clock at the designer’s site.
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The documentary King of Kong turned all of us onto the high-stakes world of live, competitive Donkey Kong, pitting “good guy” Boeing engineer Steve Wiebe against “bad guy” Billy Mitchell. Mitchell had taken the title from Wiebe with a score of 1,050,200 – a figure that had remained unchallenged for three years.
Until now. Meet plastic [...more]
A Stanford study has finally given of evidence of what we’ve always known deep down – people are seriously addicted to their iPhones.
The Stanford study involved 200 students, who were asked to rate their opinion of their iPhone usage on a scale from one to five, one being “not addicted” and five being “fully addicted.” [...more]
The Wall Street Journal says that Google has been testing a new set-top box to create their own schedule and find videos from around the internet and TV shows.
Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a [...more]
Everything about the movie looks like Tron version two. Jeff Bridge’s character’s son is starring, the Academy Award winning Dude makes an appearance and the special effects are directly inspired by the wild neon of the original Tron.
The scary flying horseshoes and light bikes return too, and are looking stunning.
I [...more]
Recently, Nintendo announced the launch of a new product, the DSi XL, a Nintendo DS that boasts a screen that’s 93% larger than the previous model. It’ll launch in late March, and with it comes some more fun news: one of the first carts for the new system will be an e-book.
To be fair, it’s [...more]