GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
SCiO Chemical Scanner Identifies The World Around You, Has $2 Million On Kickstarter

What is SCiO? SCiO, Latin for “to know”, is an infrared spectrometer the size of a thumb drive that can read the chemical makeup of foods, drugs, and other items. Israeli inventor Dror Sharon envisions that the tiny gadget could … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Scientific Breakthrough: Successful 3D Printed Blood Vessels

“Bio-printing” artificial human organs has gone through some tremendous hurdles. Printing a solid mass of flesh, identical to human even, has been done rather easily. The hard part? Creating artificial blood vessels. Blood vessels are the most important part of … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Quadriplegic Man Moves Arm After Chip Implanted Into Brain

When Ian Burkhart was 19, he faced a devastating crash while horsing around in the surf in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. After mistiming a dive, Burkhart ended up headfirst into a sandbar, instantly becoming paralyzed. One thing that helped Burkhart … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Facebook’s Psychological Experiment: Happy Or Sad News Feed Affect User’s Moods

On-staff data scientist, Adam Kramer devised an experiment that ultimately concluded the following about the way positive and negative effects travel through social networks: “In-person interaction and nonverbal cues are not strictly necessary for emotion contagion.” The experiment, which is … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Google Gives You $20 Virtual Reality With Cardboard

Virtual Reality is like a precious prodigy child that has been patiently waiting to be brought to the world. People keep saying “2014 is the year of VR”. I’m sure you remember Facebook purchasing the Oculus Rift VR headset for … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
The Tokyo Museum “What is Human?” Exhibition With Human-Looking Androids

When Pepper the robot was announced, she seemed friendly and cute. She could understand your feelings and give responses to your mood. Pepper was innovative, nothing too “out there”. In a world where we seem apprehensive about robots becoming more … Continue reading →

 

APPLE
Razer Unveils New Micro Console That Will Run New Android TV Platform

Razer will be teaming up with new Android TV to unleash a new micro console that will stream games, TV, and entertainment into your living room. Razer, founded in San Diego, California, is a world leader in high-performance gaming PCs, … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
NASA’S BRUIE May Be the Next Step in Discovering Extraterrestrial Life

Over the last hundred years or so, the notion of possible life on other planets has spawned massive interest and speculation from scientists, conspiracy theorists and adventure-seekers alike. This week NASA took a giant step or, rather, drive in the … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Soundhawk Smart Listening System Tackles Hearing Issues Situationally

There are 30 million (and counting) Americans who struggle with hearing problems, and plenty of these people are ditching their hearing aid. Why? They are essentially a blanket solution for hearing loss. Hearing aids can pick up extra sounds in … Continue reading →

 

AMD
Will HP be Able to Make the Dream of The Machine a Reality? (Part II)

In Part I we took a look at how Hewlett-Packard plans to revolutionize the world of computing with the The Machine, an ambitious endeavor by the technology giant that hopes to create a system that is six times more powerful … Continue reading →

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
The Electric Harley, the Inevitable Is Finally Here after 100 Years

Monday, June 23rd, an invitation-only event in New York will showcase handmade demonstration models of Harley-Davidson’s new electric motorcycles. The Milwaukee-based company will unveil its new model, code-named Project LiveWire, a hand-built prototype that is quite the opposite of its … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Is Hewlett-Packard’s “The Machine” the Future of Computing? (Part I)

The tech world gives us something new and revolutionary to talk about almost every day – new supercomputers, printers that create human skulls, televisions that think for themselves and phones that can out think Stephen Hawking himself. With so much … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Amazon’s First Venture into Smartphones, the Fire Phone Announced Today

Amazon has waited for the right moment to plunge into the immense smartphone world, where the market is highly dominated by rival tech titans, Apple and Google. Wednesday, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos finally announced the e-commerce company’s first smartphone ever, … Continue reading →

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Starbucks Now Offering More than Just a Charge to Your Mental Batteries

Thanks to a recent partnership with Duracell Powermat, Starbucks announced today that they have begun rolling out wireless phone chargers in many Starbucks and Teavana locations, beginning with (surprise, surprise) the San Francisco Bay area. Considering how much time I … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Thanks to New Laser Technology, Cops Could Soon be Able to Detect Drunk Drivers without Ever Pulling Them Over

You don’t have to be a genius to know that drunk driving is a terrible, unsafe and often very, very expensive idea. Regardless of how well you’ve memorized the alphabet backwards, how many hours you’ve spent practicing walking a straight … Continue reading →