Tag: Technology
Jack White has outdone himself this time. The man who fronted one of the greatest bands of his generation, who collaborated with Insane Clown Posse to reinterpret Mozart, who got Stephen Colbert to release a garage rock single, is releasing his next project on old medical X-Ray printouts cut with grooves so they can be […]
A group of Scottish scientists has pulled off what they believe to be the first instance of 3D-printing using human embryonic stem cells. They believe the breakthrough could lead to synthetic organs used for drug testing–removing innocent animals from the process and giving more accurate results on how a drug interacts with human tissue–and eventually […]
We’re all cyborgs. Technology has become so omnipresent in each of our lives that our brains have begun engaging in new behaviors that are molded around it, argues technologist and entrepreneur Amber Case. And to help us better understand the ways in which that’s happening, she’s created the Illustrated Dictionary of Cyborg Anthropology, a volume that […]
The British Army has begun using some unbelievably small drones on the front lines in Afghanistan. At just four by two inches, the Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Aerial Vehicle is small enough to fit in the palm of a child’s hand. It’s equipped with what must be an infinitesimally small camera, which soldiers use to […]
Japanese artists So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi created the above robot, which randomly creates artwork by moving back and forth while spraying paint at a wall. Designboom explains how the contraption works: The chaotic artwork is achieved through a single automated arm provisioned with a rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. as the […]
Having stitched together over 9500 images, Google Street View team set live today their 75 mile, 360-degree documented hike down two main trails at Grand Canyon Nation Park (address is approximate). Google sent out three teams of two each equipped with a Trekker, a lighter, miniature version of their cameras previously strapped to vans, trikes and […]
Here’s one of the more awesomely infuriating apps you’ll ever see advertised: Moritz Greiner-Petter’s Tick, which commands your computer’s pointer to do loop-de-loops even when you’re moving your mouse in a straight line. According to Grenier-Petter, the idea is to get people taking stock of the programming that defines much of the ways we live […]
With the help of certain organic light-emitting materials, engineers from the National Taiwan University in Taipei are developing fingernail polish that interacts with your smartphone or tablet. The polish will literally turn your nails into extensions of your smart device’s screen, displaying text and images that would otherwise be blocked by those inconveniently non-transparent fingers of yours. About time! While […]
The first clip from Jobs has been released featuring Josh Gad as Steve Wozniak and Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs arguing in a obvious this-dialogue-means-something scene. I know Kutcher and a young Jobs look uncannily alike, but out of context, this clip merely looks like Ashton Kutcher talking about computer possibilities. Oh yeah, don’t forget […]
Presented without commentary. But wait for the big reveal at the end! This thing is astonishingly precise. […]
