SCENE IN TOKYO: Robotic Helper Climbs Stairs in Shinjuku Station

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The Navy Built Its Own Indoor Ocean to Test Ships

The Navy Built Its Own Indoor Ocean to Test Ships

The world’s seven seas may be wildly unpredictable, but if you ever find yourself itching to play Poseidon, you might want to consider enlisting. Because at the Naval Surface Warfare Center just outside Washington, D.C., the Navy gets to control every inch of its very own indoor ocean.

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This Flat-Pack Water Bottle Can Squeeze Inside a Laptop Bag

This Flat-Pack Water Bottle Can Squeeze Inside a Laptop Bag

A backpack’s got plenty of pouches and pockets for storing a water bottle, but a sleek messenger bag? Good luck fitting a Nalgene in there without an unsightly bulge. You’ll either need to go without and keep an eye out for drinking fountains, or toss a few dollars towards these Kickstarted flat-pack water bottles.

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3D-printed mesh gives man with half a skull hope for recovery

People have been patching up their bodies with foreign parts for ages now, but 3D printing has only made that process easier, faster and more emblematic of hope. Case in point: a Chinese farmer named Hu fell three stories in a construction accident,…

Google's Megan Smith rumored as America's next CTO

The United States found itself without a Chief Technology Officer yesterday when Todd Park relinquished his post to go trawl Silicon Valley for IT types, but that spot may not stay open for long. Bloomberg claims that there’s already a frontrunner…

Leaked iPhone 6 pics give best look yet at device

iPhone 6 picsHere we go again: iPhone 6 leaks. This time is like most other times we’ve talked iPhone 6, with the rear shell and front glass being shown off. The items in these pics are believed to be “near-final” builds, again highlighting that what we see here may not be what we get on September 9. The glass is nothing unfamiliar, … Continue reading

Why a “delayed” iWatch destroys all competitors

timeApple’s wearable device, still code-named “iWatch” here in the days (or weeks) before its official reveal, has been tipped to be released in the year 2015. If Apple announces an iWatch on September 9th, then doesn’t ship the device until January (or any time after that), they’ll drop a bomb on the rest of the “wearables” industry. Releasing devices almost … Continue reading

Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell trailer, detailed in full

gattingA new “standalone expansion” to the Saints Row series has been revealed during PAX Prime 2014. This game will have the Saints attempting to rescue their lost boss in the pits of Hell. The President of the United States of America, you, are in Hell. but you won’t be playing as you, you’ll be playing as Kinsey or Johnny Gat. … Continue reading

It’s alive! iPhone 6 hacked together using sourced parts

Screen Shot 2014-08-29 at 11.31.42 AMRemember that bootleg iPhone running Android? It was a complete hack job, void of anything officially Apple. It may have looked the part, but it wasn’t even iOS. The guys who have been responsible for a lot of the iPhone 6 component leaks have hacked together their own iPhone, made of sourced iPhone parts. As you can see in the … Continue reading

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected for PS4 and Xbox One pricing

bignessThe teams at Deep Silver / Volition have let it be known that they’re bringing Saints Row IV “Re-Elected” to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on January 27th. With this game – a re-imagining of Saints Row 4 – they’ll be including Saints Row: Gat out of Hell. But the packaging is a bit confusing. There will be two separate … Continue reading