A Machine Inside a Wine Glass
A beautiful solar-powered machine running inside a wine glass. The creator has many other similar machines, which you can all check out on his website. [Source | Via OhGizmo]
Category Archives: Technology
Top 10 Ways to Make Cities Greener
So geeks, apart from what’s listed in the infographic, what other technologies can you think of that should improve our cities in the near future? Let us know in the comments section below! Source: Best Sociology Programs
Discovered: Coleco Adam
So in Ontario Canada, we have a Recycling Program where local businesses who support the program serve as a drop off point where you can discard your used electronics and have them transferred free of charge to proper recycling centers. Now at a local store, I was handy when THIS was brought in. A Coleco […]
Tropical Island to Host Hackathon
We often hear about how the beauty of computer-based jobs is that you can work anywhere. A new project aims to take advantage of that theory by taking 12 programmers to a hackathon on a mystery tropical island. Come Hack With Us is being run by Walter Heck, who previously worked on a programming project. […]
OMG REVOLUTIONARY: That Cloud Thing Everyone Is Talking About [Parody]
Note: Please don’t get too excited over this video, this is a parody. :) Talk about the cloud, throw in a few key tech buzzwords in there, and BANG, you’ve got an instant recipe for success on your hands. Don’t you just love The Onion? :) [The Onion]
Print Your Own Medications [Science!]
The 3D printing innovations continue to pour in, the latest being from Professor Lee Cronin, involving a do-it-at-home medication printing machine. It’s not quite the same 3D printing technology that we have now become used to seeing, since those create relatively large objects compared to the scale of organic chemistry. There are also a whole […]
Stanley is a Piano that Takes Requests over Twitter
Twitter has a really varied clientele, from well communicating social media junkies right down to those very same social media junkie’s dogs. But now an inanimate object hopes to communicate with its followers with the gift of music. @StanleyPiano is a unique Twitter account connected to a piano. A player piano. A Player Piano is […]
Turning Motion into Music: The V Motion Project [Video]
The Motion Project was a collaboration between a lot of clever creative people working together to create a machine that turns motion into music. The client for the project, Frucor (makers of V energy drink), together with their agency Colenso BBDO, kitted-out a warehouse space for this project to grow in and gathered together a […]
Amazon Kindle 3G Browsing Now Limited
Seems the days of surfing the Internet in the little black and white browser of the Kindle to your hearts content has come to an end. Apparently, some users have experienced a bandwidth warning, alerted to a “50MB limit”. They were then informed that they would be allowed only 24 hours more of surfing and […]
Wi-Fi Robot to the Rescue
Students at Northeastern University have developed a rugged robot that deploys Wi-Fi where it goes and uses GPS and its own Wi-Fi for control, meaning its range is pretty much limitless. It also has the ability to drop repeater units in order to broaden its range and has an on-board camera to help the operator […]