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The scariest Google Glass hack just got fixed before anyone evil could actually use it, but the details are a little unsettling. Using nothing more than Glass’s camera and a malicious QR code, hackers would have been able to steal total control of the device if you so much as looked at the wrong thing.…
Until we’re all able to shower from bed, Waterpik’s new Showerpik is the next best thing for simplifying our morning routines. It works like any other Waterpik, blasting the spaces between your teeth clean like a dental floss fire hose. But since it taps into your existing shower head you don’t need to keep a…
Have you ever been to California? You should try it. Sure there are the beaches and the national parks and the movie stars and the big red bridge. There’s also the delightful consequence of near-perfect weather all year round. Stuff just doesn’t rust. Even when it rains. This is part of the reason why Americana…
When experimenting with laboratory animals, it’s important to completely eliminate any outside factors that could influence the results. So to prevent infection from human handlers, Japan’s Nikkyo Technos and Yaskawa Electric have completely eliminated people from the equation with this robotic system that can autonomously care for up to 30,000 mice at once. The six-axis…
If you worry that your SD cards just can’t keep up with the pace, fret no longer. Toshiba has the world’s fastest SD cards, in the shape of the new Exceria Pro SDHC series, to deal with your ridiculous data acquisition needs. Designed for top-end cameras—there’s no point using these in anything cheap—the Pro SDHC…
Sometimes it seems like no story is complete without a social media angle: what’s the reaction on Twitter, how did the news spread on Facebook? And that, that’s bullshit. Equally, just because something happens on social media doesn’t mean it’s necessarily a story. So what if something was trending—it doesn’t necessarily make it interesting. Basically,…
Just months after Acer’s Iconia W3 Windows tablet arrived to woeful reviews, the company has already announced it’s going to overhaul the slate ASAP. Which probably still won’t be enough to make you buy it.
If you’re always on the move but like to have a real desk to work at, maybe designer Tyrone Stoddart‘s BOXED project is for you: a suitcase that contains an entire collapsable workstation. In fact, contained within this wooden case are enough parts to create four different pieces of furniture: a desk, a coffee table,…
Bloomberg is reporting, citing Taiwanese newspaper Commercial Times, that Apple may delay the next iPhone—after it allegedly decided to tweak its design to feature a bigger 4.3-inch retina display screen. We’d usually expect a new iPhone to appear around September. But this report, fuelled by comments from “unidentified people in the semiconductor industry”, suggests that…
WhatsApp has finally gone free on iOS, instead of costing 99 cents like it has done for years. One catch: you’ll pay an annual subscription fee of $1 after the first year of use, like on other platforms.
Themuch-rumored HTC One Mini is looking more and more like a real thing, this time cropping up in a Chinese TENAA certification database listed as the HTC 601e. The listing suggests that the phone will sport a single SIM card slot—unlike the Chinese version of its bigger brother, which packs two—but reveals little else. Other…
Most company logos usually play it pretty safe: stale stencils or vanilla graphics mixed with a bunch of nothingness to keep uniqueness to a minimum. That’s never fun. But if you get too adventurous, the Internet skewers you. That’s why we’re left with logos and brands that pretty much are all different degrees of the…
Take a psychedelic stroll in Poncho’s newest music video, Tiki Tiki. It’s like a Ayhuasca trip but without, you know, the need for adult diapers. Poncho is an Argentinean electronica trio consisting of Javier Zuker, Leandro Lopatin, and Fabian Picciano. Tiki Tiki, which was animated at studio Plenty, is from the band’s second album, Carnival.
All you iPad users can now banish Apple Maps into that folder you never open because Google Maps 2.0 has been released and adds support for the iPad and iPad Mini. That means BIG MAPS HELL YEAH. Google Maps 2.0 for iOS also adds better navigation with live traffic updates, incident reports and dynamic re-routing.…
Patio screen doors are fantastic at letting the breeze in and crucial in blocking insect intruders. But in a perfect world, we wouldn’t even need them. In the real world, they’d somehow close themselves so we wouldn’t be bothered with them. We can make that happen. Genius Clan McArthur rigged his screen door so it…
The team that brought us the first neurally remote controlled beetle has a new paper out today proposing a huge step forward in brain-computer interfaces. In an article published the arXiv Quantitative Biology archive, Dongjin Seo, Michael Maharbiz, and colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley propose a system they call ‘Neural Dust’. Brain-computer…
=) -_- T_T =P 😉 Oh, the emoticon. Depending on who you’re talking to (or I guess texting to? messaging to?) at the moment, emoticons can be as common as some words. When did they first start showing up? Did people write letters with smileys and frowny faces? Were typewriters used to express emotion through…
It starts with one domino. It branches off into different lines. It ends with 272,297 dominos being toppled over. It sounds like a cross between a snake hissing and an annoying morning alarm. It’s mesmerizing. It’s hypnotic. It’s 10 minutes long. It’s worth watching over and over. It’s world record breaking for dominos toppled in…
Things you can do to get time off of Purgatory: help the poor, volunteer, and now… follow the pope on Twitter. So next week is Catholic World Youth Week in Rio. Attending is one way to knock down the days on your Purgatory stay. But so is following along on Twitter. According to Vatican officials,…
Though wearing Google Glass makes you look like a futuristic cross-eyed cyborg to the entire world, controlling Glass is a lot more natural and conversational than you’d expect. A few swipes and a couple of “OK Glass” to get started. But do you know what Google was thinking about making you say before it settled…
