If you have to keep using Windows XP for the next couple of years, you won’t necessarily be stuck using an outdated web browser. Google now says that Chrome will get XP-compatible updates until “at least” April 2015, one year after Microsoft drops support for its aging OS. The extension should …
Have you updated your Yahoo Fantasy Sports Football app yet? No? Then you better get your ass on over to the App Store. Because as Yahoo so kindly reminded us, Y3K is just around the (thousand-year-long) corner, and it’s never too early to start preparing for the end.
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It’s official: the “spaceship campus” is ready to roll as the Cupertino City Council lends their unanimous approval of the Apple project at their October meeting. This month has already shown off a couple of views of the upcoming beast of an architectural project – now Apple can celebrate the initiation of the building itself. […]
Ideas will remain as just that – ideas, unless something more is done about it. This is where crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter tend to make an impact, as it gives the proverbial “wings” for such ideas to take off after getting enough funding to be turned into a reality. Well, here we are with a uniquely named FlyKly Smart Wheel (yes sir, I guess we have all moved on to smart wheels since our bicycles can no longer get any smarter), where it has been described as a tool which will allow you to go through busy city streets without taking up too much of your energy.
The FlyKly Smart Wheel is a pedal assist system that encases an ultra-thin electric motor as well as intelligent electronics within a robust housing, where everything is neatly fitted onto the spokes of a bicycle rim. In a nutshell, it will be able to fit just about any bicycle frame which will also allow you to use your bicycle in a far more efficient and comfortable manner. Right now, it has yet to raise the necessary amount of funds required to see it turn into reality, but since there are more than 30 days left to go, who would want to wager against it being realized?
FlyKly Smart Wheel Might Just Take Off original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oyster debuted as an all-you-can-read monthly ebook subscription service that works in a way similar to Netflix, only for books. The service is only available for iOS users, and at the time only an iPhone app was available, with use being limited to invitation-only. Fast-forward several weeks, and now iPad support has been added, as […]
The primary complaint against solar power—that it, you know, requires the sun—is perfectly valid. But Arizona’s new Solana Generating Station, the largest capacity solar thermal plant on the face of the Earth, has just provided a $1.4 billion counterpoint. Thanks to its massive molten salt reserves, this plant keeps producing power even after lights out.
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Science often receives inspiration from nature, and here we are again with yet another piece of technology that will feature an inspired bit from snakes and their movement. These reptiles normally travel by bending their bodies in an S-pattern that we are all familiar with, but whenever they stalk their prey, snakes are able to move in a straight line by expanding and contracting their bodies. This particular “rectilinear gait” might be slow, but it is also quiet and could prove to be rather difficult to detect, making it the ideal ambush move.
Roboticists have decided to represent such “limbless locomotion” is a highly effective method, so that a robot can move through cluttered and confined spaces. Thanks to University of Maryland Mechanical Engineering Ph.D. student James Hopkins, he has come up with a robot known as “R2G2″ (Robot with Rectilinear Gait for Ground operations), with a dramatically exaggerated gait so that its speed will increase.
Hopkins shared, “Our current R2G2 model has a maximum forward velocity of one mile per hour, bringing it close to human walking speed.Our goal is to develop a gait and a mechanical architecture that will enable high-speed limbless locomotion to support applications such as search and rescue.” Hopefully Hopkins will be able to achieve his dream!
R2G2 Is Yet Another Snake-Like Robot original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sony wants to make it easier for US PlayStation 3 owners to get themselves ready for the launch of its next-gen console next month. Earlier today, the company rolled out an update for the aging console that makes PlayStation 4 games available to pre-order through the PlayStation Store. The first two …
Pizza is probably one of the most popular meals you can have in the U.S. as it’s cheap to make, available nearly everywhere and is downright delicious if you find the perfect restaurant. If you’ve ever experienced pizza baked in a wood-fired oven, then you know it somehow tastes even better when cooked in that type of oven. But have you ever eaten pizza out of a wood-fire oven that looks like a giant disco ball. (more…)
This Disco Ball Pizza Oven Probably Creates Some Delicious Pies original content from Ubergizmo. 
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It has been quite some time since we heard from the folks over at iRiver, and this time around, we have word that they have just rolled out what is deemed to be the first smart exercise headset in the world, namely, the iRiver ON. This is an intelligent headset that is said to be able to monitor one’s heart rate in a transparent manner. Apart from being able to monitor one’s real-time heart rate, it will also be able to keep track of physical location and workout data, all the while remaining invisible to the user as he or she enjoys some music. Apart from that, the iRiver ON will also happen to be the first Bluetooth audio headset that will be powered by PerformTek Precision Biometrics, which is a state-of-the-art sensor technology that will continuously measures real-time biometric data without sacrificing on both accuracy and consistency.
The iRiver ON sports a simple design which will offer all the biometric feedback, in addition to iRiver’s legendary listening experiences, boasting convenient music and call controls to boot. Apart from that, the iRiver ON would also arrive with its own complementary fitness application for both iOS and Android smartphones. The asking price for the iRiver ON stands at $199.99.
iRiver Launches ON Smart Exercise Headset original content from Ubergizmo. 
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