FreedomPop, the startup out of LA that has been going after U.S. carriers’ wireless business with a “free” basic mobile offering, is now bringing a SIM-only version of its service to Europe and beyond. Today, the company announced that it will kick off first with FreedomPop in Belgium, with rollouts also in the UK, Germany, France and Spain, as well as to markets in the… Read More
Oussama Khatib Shu-Yun Chung have brought us the SupraPed. Khatib and Chung, researchers at Stanford, are working on a system to allow bipedal robots extra stability by giving them a pair of walking sticks. Unlike us weak humans, however, the robots will bend and twist in all sorts of ways to get across chasms or over large obstacles.
To deploy humanoid robots in cluttered and unstructured… Read More
DEVOLRO Performance Cars Studio’s motto is “unleash the beast” and with the Diablo Toyota Tundra Expedition Truck the beast isn’t just unleashed, it’s unfettered, unmuzzled and downright unbelievable!
So you love flying. You love every type of aircraft. You would spend the whole day high above ground if you could. But that’s impossible, and when you return to your home or to your office, you want to feel at least a tiny bit of that sensation you felt at those high altitudes. Thanks to a few designer and furniture makers, this is now possible.
The more biologists look, the stranger the places they find life. Whether it’s in the boiling mud ponds of Yellowstone or in radioactive seams miles beneath the surface of the Earth, microbes seem capable of surviving just about anywhere. That’s why one team is heading to the deep desert of Turkmenistan to see if life can even thrive at the Door to Hell.
If your vacation involves a scuba adventure to some exotic underwater locale, of course you’re going to want to take photos to make everyone back home jealous. And since the iPhone has become the go-to pocket camera for most tourists, Thanko’s now selling a monstrous, over-engineered case that promises to keep your iPhone bone dry, and functional, to depths of around 330 feet.
Speck Design’s clientele has ranged from Apple to Samsonite to Fisher-Price in its history, and now it can add Google to the list of high-profile companies. But Google — or its Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP) division, to be more specific…
Inventors and engineers Cameron Robertson and Todd Reichert are aiming to create the world’s fastest bike. The previous record stands at 133.8 kilometers per hour (83.1 mph) – Robertson and Reichert will be aiming to blaze past with their strange looking Eta bike this September. Robertson and Reichert will be aiming to bump up the world record for human-powered bicycle … Continue reading
Mario Kart 8 for Wii U has produced one of the most pervasive memes in recent video-game-related-meme history with Luigi’s Death Stare. This week at Anime Expo 2014, Luigi brought the pain. Rolling through the convention full of cosplaying Anime fans, Luigi made with the turtle-shelling. There’s nothing as embarrassing as having a stuffed turtle shell tossed at your face … Continue reading
Apple has updated iTunes today, bringing the software to version 11.3. The goal this time is to get you consuming more media. How do we know that? The extensive list of tweaks to media playback, and a synchronized update to Apple TV. The change-log for iTunes has an extensive list of media angles. New iTunes extras for HD movies, which … Continue reading
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