Oh, your parents: Teh Olds. They’re always needing technical assistance with the most rudimentary computer tasks. Worse, you can’t begrudge them the tech support since they’re always helping you out with rides to the movie theater and money for ice cream. You can’t deny them service, but goshdarnit, you should demand remuneration for your travails. And if you do it as adorably as this young tech entrepreneur, we’re willing to bet you’re going to get what you asked for.
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There’s an endless number of distractions that can prevent us from curling up with a good book. So the folks at the London-based design studio, Tilt, created the OpenBook chair. It’s an oversized comfy seat wrapped in an empty library that you can fill with your favorite books and magazines, creating an oasis of reading in a sea of distracting electronics.
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We’d love to tell you that the researchers at North Carolina State University aren’t monsters who implant circuits on living things so that those living things do their bidding, but we’d be lying. They totally do that, roaches are their primary victim, and now they’re using Microsoft’s Kinect to help them control the insects. Sure, why not!
As Dr. Alper Bozkurt of NCSU says in today’s new release, “Our goal is to be able to guide these roaches as efficiently as possible, and our work with Kinect is helping us do that.” Apparently the researchers are employing Kinect for data collection as well, determining how effectively the cyborg survivors respond to electrical impulse-motivated control. They say the end goal is to use the partially mechanized arthropods to, “explore and map disaster sites.” For now, there’s some very weird stuff happening in North Carolina. Head below for a video of the roaches in action.
Filed under: Misc, Robots, Science, Software, Alt, Microsoft
Source: North Carolina State University
The team at Google’s Transparency department have brought on a new level of threat reporting – massive amounts of phishing and malware-infected sites from across the web. This newest Google Transparency Report is being laid bare this week with a cool 67,909 compromised sites tracked by the company in mid-June, showing an interesting cross-section of
In an attempt to improve safety and reduce the number of accidents on the world’s curviest roads, Ford has developed an experimental brake light that lets vehicles behind you know there’s slow traffic ahead, even if they can’t see your lights.
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Samsung’s online listing for the Galaxy S 4 Developer Edition is back, and now you can actually follow through on a purchase. The device, currently available for Verizon customers, can be yours for the princely sum of $649.99. This isn’t the Google Edition running stock Android that we first heard about at I/O; instead, the Developer Edition includes the TouchWiz UI and Android 4.2.2, but ships with an unlocked bootloader, letting you play around with custom ROMs and the like. Add it to your cart at the source link below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung
Via: TechnoBuffalo
Source: Samsung
Your vacation may begin with a bang.
(Credit: SimonLowe/YouTube screenshot by CNET)
Not all the airport excitement is happening in Moscow.
Please imagine that you were one of the 325 happy passengers leaving Manchester, England, on Monday on your way to the Dominican Republic.
You are cheery because the weather in the Dominican is likely to be rather more divine than the weather in Manchester.
Your Airbus 330 (operated by vacation airline Thomas Cook) is picking up speed in order to take you skyward.
And then perhaps you are in the “F” seats or to the right and you hear a loud bang and espy flames leaping from the engine. You might just offer an “F” or two of your own.
I must confess that, should I have been a passenger on this plane, I might have felt a twinge of anguish that reversed the thrust of my breakfast croissant.
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If you’re one of the still-massive amount of users working with Foursquare for all of your daily check-in needs, you’ll certainly have some sort of an opinion on the addition of an “I’m with” option for the app for iOS and Android. This option allows a much-requested (so says Foursquare) feature to the app ecosystem
It’s an honest mistake, thinking that marijuana and industrial hemp are one and the same. And in some ways they are: both are species of the genus cannabis, they both have the iconic five-fingered pot leafs, and both are widely sought after the world over. But aside from their outward appearance, they two have very little in common, including where it counts the most.
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