The US Navy is on its way to getting a new super high-tech nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding are the guys doing the building and work has been underway since September of last year. If the schedule is maintained the CVN-78 or Gerald R. Ford (the first of its kind class of aircraft carrier) will leave drydock to water in July 2013. It features a spanking new power plant design, brand-new Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System and a reduced...
In a desperate effort to embody his favorite superhero, Hibiki Kono, 13, from King's College School, Cambridge did what any little boy with a Peter Parket type IQ would do, find a way to climb walls. Using simple vacuum clears from Tesco this kid worked out a way to climb walls. He attached a set of nozzles and suction pads to them the cleaners and voila, 5 months later, she was climbing walls. It was a school technology project...
There’s not a single technology enthusiast, sci-fi watching, gizmo fan out there that doesn’t want to see a flying car become a reality and according to some, it’s that time is drawing closer and closer. A small airplane-styled car called the Terrafugia, has been designed to be the next street-legal flying car that has cleared a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulatory hurdle for craft classification by weight. It’s still apparently in a test prototype phase and will make it...
You do not need the lush, sprawling office floor to settle down and get down to business. You can get working on something as small and compact as a file cabinet and still make yourself comfortable on an elaborate setup. How do you manage it? Simply go in for the Portable Office. Made of EPS foam this portable office is capable of fitting everything you need in an office, from chairs to tables into one solid body by assembling them....
Taking your hands off the console can be lethal if you’re an ardent, dedicated and true WoW fan. However, our damn hands ain’t no made of steel and often tire quite easily. The result of this can be catastrophic to all the efforts we have made in setting the whole game up. So, if you’re having those metatarsal aches or if you feel it important to feed your worthy stomach, do not think twice to pick up the Tap Chat...
The Fingerist comes to the rescue of all iPhone and iPod Touch users who find it hard to play the guitar on a sleek gizmo. It is shaped like a guitar so as to make it all the more easier for ‘real guitarists’ to try out the array of guitar playing applications that the gizmo supports, for instance, Pocket Guitar. The music thus produced is pumped out from the speaker on the Fingerist, thus making it act like a real...
There’s not a lot to talk about something that looks like a robot and happens to be a 2GB low capacity USB drive. So there’s a little bit of creativity that’s been put into the making of the drive and also the name. Fancy a drive being called Robo Robo Robo. The 3.5 inch ‘robot’ comes has articulated shoulders and neck and a soft rubber body. The palms of the robot are designed so as to clasp wires that normally...
As smart as you can possibly get, when it comes to securing your valuables, there is always something that’s smarter, wiser and works more untiringly than any security personnel. Meet the Yelpie Safe. It takes care of your accessories and gizmos like MP3 players, sunglasses, a stray bundle of currency notes, important scribbles on paper, car keys, house keys and a hell lot more. The advantage of using this one is that it is light-weight and has a cool keypad...
Here’s another giant leap in the world of memory expansion and availability. Seagate, who have been consistently striving to help us overcome all the storage woes we’re fixed with have gone on to introduce the world’s first 3 Terabyte external hard drive. It will be available in the GoFlex hard drive family and will have flexibility to adapt its USB 2.0 interface to a USB 3.0 or FireWire 800 connection. It provides compatibility with Windows and Mac OS X computers....
Armed with a 7 inch touch screen display, the awesome new Cisco business tablet called ‘Cius’ makes its way in after the company announced it. Other features of the tablet that make it quite an interesting option in this new wave of ‘tabletphilia’ include a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor, a 5 mp camera for high-quality image and video capture, a front facing camera with 720p HD recording, Wi-fi support, 3G mobile broadband connectivity, microUSB port, 32GB flash storage and...
Google’s Senior Product Manager, Baljeet Singh, announced to day that YouTube will introduce skippable ads sometime around the end of this year. The skipping facility further extends such that the advertisers whose ads have been skipped will not be charged. This seems fair enough. In addition to this, there will also be a choice of ads offered for longer videos. The press conference at which the declaration was made was itself titled “Real-time Bidding, Banner Ads, Google’s Newest Big Business...
LG’s new LU4500 is an FMC (Fixed Mobile Convergence) enabled handset, which means it’s great for using in any location via a wire (fixed networks) of wireless mobile networks. It’s a touchscreen handset with a 3-inch display and is equipped to handle VOIP calls, supports more memory with microSD cards and is quite the funky phone with its pastel color variations like lime, violet and pink. It also supports Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth 2.1 and T-DMB. A 3.5mm handsfree jack...
We’ve reached a stage in our technology enhanced lives, where we’re not just working on labor saving devices for larger chores. A few Harvard guys, one Robert Wood and a few colleagues, have taken technology and being a lazy artist to a whole new level. If you’re into the ancient Japanese paper art of origami but are too lazy to even fold paper, these guys have a way of getting it done with the push of a few buttons....
Microsoft’s Surface is in the news again and the technology has taken a step forward. With the help of a sub-two-inch camera and a transparent OLED panel from Samsung, the new set up, dubbed touchless telepresence display was born. The camera is placed behind the OLED panel and is designed to track all your movements. This in enables it to pick out your every gesture in a 3D like set up. This takes the ‘MS Surface’ experience to the...
The latest Optimus keyboard form Art Lebedev Studio called the Popularis, is now a finished product. It’s as impressive as their previous devices. The Popularis is equipped with an always-active status bar that’s just below the F-keys that feature weather, stocks and new mail. To reduce the size, the number pad has been removed. Although it hasn’t been officially confirmed, the Popularis would most likely be usable on both Macs and PCs. No official date has been set but...
