GIRL POWER: Design Students Invent Invisible Bike Helmet [Video]
Now, I’ll admit — I saw this floating around the interwebz and I was highly skeptical. And then I finally watched the video. Go, Ladies, go! [via Jalopnik]
Category Archives: Technology
Cellphone firms Drop Premium Rate Texts
Three of the biggest US cellphone carriers are to drop premium rate text messages. It should spell the end of cramming, a scam by which phone users are tricked into paying for a costly subscription service. The scam usually involves the user getting an unsolicited message and replying under the impression they are entering a […]
Researchers question effect of TV and games on kids
A newly published study covering 11,000 children found no strong evidence that extended television watching or video game playing was linked to behavioral or psychological issues among children even as young as five. The study was carried out by the Medical Research Council, based at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom. It used […]
Jeopardy-winning supercomputer available for public use
Watson, the IBM supercomputer that famously beat champion players on Jeopardy, is to be made available to public developers for remote access. IBM used Jeopardy as a test of the supercomputer’s parallel processing abilities. The gameshow, which supplies players with an answer and asks them to supply the question, was considered a particular challenge for […]
Motorola Wants to Tattoo Your Throat
Motorola has applied for a patent on a neck tattoo that could make it easier to use a cellphone. Fortunately it’s just a phrase rather than a proposal for permanent inking. The patent, titled “Coupling an electronic skin tattoo to a mobile communication device”, was filed in May 2012 and has just been published by […]
10 Sci-Fi Technologies That Already Exist [Video]
http://youtu.be/-hcV422bQP0 Look at the world of tomorrow, today! [AllTime10s]
Bitcoin May Favor the Selfish
The virtual currency Bitcoin may have a fundamental flaw according to two Cornell University professors. And they’re not talking about its lack of official recognition or oversight. Emin Gun Sirer, who specialises in operating systems and networking, discusses the piece in a post on the “Hacking, Distributed” blog in which he details a paper he […]
Internet Archive Hit by Fire
The offices of the Internet Archive project have been badly hit by a fire. Appropriately enough, no data was lost, but staff are appealing for donations to help replace damaged equipment. The project is best known for its WayBack Machine, a tool that archives copies of web pages over time, aiming to keep track of […]
Bookmarker Takes Bets on Google Barge
When we reported on Google’s mystery barges off the US coasts, many GaS readers seemed certain what the company was doing with them. Now those of you who feel confident can put your money where your mouth is. A British bookmaker is now accepting bets on the true purpose of the barges, with “floating data […]
Helium-Filled Hard Drive Boosts Capacity
Western Digital has released a 6TB hard drive, billed as the highest capacity in a 3.5″ model. The secret behind the added storage is helium. The UltraStar He6 is produced by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary. The space in which the disk platters spin is filled with helium rather than air. Because helium is seven times […]