If you are more paranoid than fashion conscious, researchers in Japan have got you covered. They’ve developed a pair of spectacles specially designed to stop you being caught out by facial-recognition software on security cameras. The National Institute of Informatics put out a press release on their work last month but it appears their ability […]
The Federal Communications Commission has called for at least one city in every state to have a one gigabit per second broadband service by 2015. But it didn’t announce any new regulatory changes or extra funding to make it happen. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, apparently a Field of Dreams fan, said that “American economic history […]
Google has somehow found a way to up the sci-fi levels on its proposed Project Glass spectacles: it wants to add laser beams. The project aims to create “augmented reality” spectacles which can overlay visual information directly into your eyeline. At its simplest this could mean getting turn-by-turn walking directions in cities, but it could […]
A software developer has been busted for secretly outsourcing his work to China and instead spending his time in the office messing about on the web. The revelation comes from Verizon’s security team, which was called in to investigate at an unnamed US company involved in “critical infrastructure.” The company allows some staff to work […]
Here we have Anthony Ha from Tech Crunch interviewing Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus – a company that’s trying to create some really high quality VR gaming with the “Oculus Rift” headset. And he wants to make it available to the “average […]
I want that 84″ display. Seriously. It would look totally awesome in my basement. No info on price though, so I’ll likely won’t be able to afford it. Image source: Best Choice Reviews
LG is launching a 55 inch OLED television with a screen described as “the thickness of three credit cards.” However, the launch appears to be as much about beating rivals to the punch as a serious commercial proposition. The screens will cost 11 million won, which is equivalent to just over US$10,000. It’s probably going […]
The last survivor of the group of codebreakers who cracked a German cipher machine in the second world war has been honored by the Queen. Jerry Roberts has accepted the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) award but is still campaigning for his colleagues to be recognized in the same way. Roberts, […]
The HyTAQ robot has been developed in the Robotics Lab at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), part of the Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering Department. It is a novel mobile robot capable of both aerial and terrestrial locomotion. Flight is achieved through a quadrotor configuration; four actuators provide the required thrust. Adding a rolling cage […]
That thing may be a little noisy, but hey, it can carry around 400 lbs of equipment everywhere it goes. The LS3 program seeks to demonstrate that a highly mobile, semi-autonomous legged robot can carry 400 lbs of a squad’s equipment, follow squad members through rugged terrain and interact with troops in a natural way […]