Oblong Makes Spatial Computing a Reality
Minority Report made spatial, interactive computing famous. In those scenes, Tom Cruise is interacting with a screen in front of him with his hands. He pushes information back and forth and pics parts to display at the table in front of him. Well, looks like Oblong has gone and made that a reality.
Airless Humvee Tire Will Save Lives
Flat tires in the field of war are not a good thing. When an armored vehicle becomes a sitting target, it’s only a matter of time before that group is in trouble. Well, Resilient Technologies, LLC, the DoD, and the School of Engineering at the University of Wisconsin are trying to change all that with […]
Bloodhound SCC 1,000 MPH Land Rocket
If you want to get to work in, oh, say 2 seconds, then the Bloodhound SSC may be for you. The Minister of State for Science and Innovation in the UK has launched the effort to build this super fast car in the hopes that it will increase interest in science. Of course, once you […]
CarCade Makes Car Rides a Blast
Over the hills and to the woods, to grandma’s house we……whooooaah, watch out for that building! Carcade is a cool project that utilizes natural landscapes to build a real-time arcade game for car passengers. Yeah, drivers can’t play - cellphones are bad enough!
Google Chrome LAUNCHED!
This past weekend, Google stunned many tech observers with a surprise unveiling of Google’s latest product: Chrome. A beta version of Google Chrome, a new internet browser, was launched earlier today to the public, boasting some pretty significant changes to the way Firefox and IE does things. Touting a browser-based “task manager”, and “Incognito” mode […]
Gold Nanotechnology: Past and Future
Some cool news about gold has come out recently; not that it’s a “great hedge against inflation” or that the “latest Monster cables have gold connectors for BLAZING SPEED!” Instead, it’s some news about nanotechnology: researchers have been working on new applications for gold nanorods. At the same time, a report very recently came out […]
Editing Videos with Photos
Some ingenious students at the University of Washington have come up with a way to enhance video to still photo quality. So, what can it do? Well, it can erase items and run it through the length of the video, from all angles. It can sharpen areas. It can help with overexposure and other abnormalities. […]
Robot with a Biological Brain Lives
It’s science fiction meets weird science meets reality. Researchers at the University of Reading have developed a cyborg of types, called Gordon. Gordon is a robot that is driven by real brain tissue.
OpenID Simplifies Your Online Experience
For end users like you and I, the Internet can be a very fractured place. With each new website, message forum, or networking site, the list of user accounts a user has to maintain can become rather lengthy; don’t you wish you could consolidate all of these accounts under one “banner”? OpenID and the OpenID […]
USB 3.0 Getting A Final (Sillicon) Coating
Not too long ago, I did an article about how development on new standards of USB devices and controllers had halted with the release of USB 2.0. With a capped speed between two USB 2.0 devices of 480 Mbps, this is hardly ideal for increasingly complex computer systems. As file transfers are becoming bulked up […]
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