Some of you may have noticed that this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade had a very special guest in attendence to get things started: a robot. Known as SONIC, the robot is the result of work by the Woodlands High School’s local robotics club in Texas, winners of the FIRST robotics competition.
The Xbox One, Microsoft’s latest videogame console, launched on November 22nd, and with brilliant titles like Killer Instinct, Zoo Tycoon
and Loco Cycle, the system has been a hit worldwide. The Xbox team is
hoping to reward someone’s creativity with a $1,000 cash prize for
reimagining the appearance of the Xbox One’s controller.
If you’re doing Christmas shopping for a friend or loved one who happens to be a gamer, why not try looking at some of these awesome gift ideas? Chances are pretty high that anyone who plays video games will appreciate at least one of the items on this list.
For the time being, manned space travel is out of the question. If we’re to truly explore the universe, unmanned probes are currently our best bet. Unfortunately, unmanned space exploration comes with its own array of challenges, the greatest of which is…well, robots aren’t all that smart yet.
There have been jokes about creating smell and taste for television for many decades. Well, now that dream is coming true — well, sort of. It isn’t the smell part, and it isn’t the television. Researchers at the University of Singapore have discovered that they can replace four of the five basic tastes by delivering a small dose of electricity to the tongue. So they can match flavors to what you see on your computer screen — and no, you don’t have to lick your computer screen to get the job done either.
When Cyber Monday was invented in 2005 to encourage people to shop online, I don’t think anyone really expected what would happen next. Over the past seven years, online shopping’s popularity has skyrocketed. Bad news for Black Friday, right?
Gadget fiends and tech journalists rejoice. The Tylt Energi+ Backpack is
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on the go, or the constantly under pressure tech writer, being able to
recharge your devices at a moment’s notice is key. With the Energi+
backpack, you can charge up to three of your devices at a time!
So, there’s kind of a problem with current storm warning systems: they’re awful and horrendously archaic. A group of students aged 8 to 13 participating in a global Lego robotics competition noticed this. Together, they’ve devised an application designed to modernize storm warnings.
32GB not enough? For those with the misfortune of owning a smartphone without a memory card slot, Meenova has a very inexpensive solution.
Kids love nothing more during the Christmas season than trying to figure out what is under the tree. But now you can stop peeking with the Archie McPhee Gift Alarm.
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