Despite the hard economic times, it appears it was a bumper Christmas for sellers of handheld gadgets. The number of Americans owning tablet computers and e-readers appears to have almost doubled in the space of a few weeks. According to the latest figures from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, the proportion of US […]
Henning Sandstrom stopped by FreeFly HQ on his way to Maui to teach me how to film beautiful forest scenes like he does so well! The weather was really challenging, but we got the chance to do a few flights with the newly completed 3 axis gimbal. This video shows the gimbal with a Sony […]
A pair of cufflinks that conceals a USB drive was once considered the geekiest way possible to jazz up your dress shirt. That’s no longer the case. If you’ve got $250 burning a hole in your pocket, you can now buy an even geekier pair of cufflinks. As with previous designs, one link opens up […]
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Cricket commentators at a match in Dubai survived a technical disaster yesterday thanks to an iPad and a piece of quick thinking. The BBC crew were commentating for Test Match Special, a radio show that has been a British institution since 1957. Although now available online on digital radio and even via podcast, it remains […]
A company named HzO is claiming waterproof smartphones could be on the way this summer, and will be the norm in a couple of years. The company says its solution, WaterBlock, works differently than current techniques. Instead of merely waterproofing the exterior of the phone, it uses a “nanotechnology” coating on the interior, covering individual […]
Manufacturing has begun on a Linux computer that costs just $25. But the British developers have conceded they will have to outsource production overseas to make it viable. The long-running project aims to cut costs by reducing a computer to its most basic components while still having all the functionality you’d expect from modern hardware. […]
After reviewing the second season of “The Walking Dead”, the team at The Slingshot Channel realized that firearms are weapons of last resort in a Zombie outbreak. Gunshots are just too loud, veritable dinner bells for the Undead. A powerful slingshot is a very good choice, as earlier tests clearly proved. But then again, a […]
Cubelets are magnetic blocks that can be snapped together to make an endless variety of robots with no programming and no wires. You can build robots that drive around on a tabletop, respond to light, sound, and temperature, and have surprisingly lifelike behavior. But instead of programming that behavior, you snap the cubelets together and […]