Today, we’ve been given a glimpse into the future of the workplace. Not surprisingly, it involves robots. Microsoft’s Situated Interaction Project is a near-fully automated, robotic workplace, designed to show that robots and humans can interact – and work together – on a meaningful level.
For anyone who doubted that the Oculus Rift has some awesome
applications outside video games, it gives me great pleasure to present
to you "Conquest of the Skies," a nature documentary being developed by
Sir David Attenborough. It’ll be the first of
its kind – and hopefully first of many.
The idea of closing surgical incisions without a needle and thread is a revolutionary concept. Out of Israel comes the brainchild for a brilliant innovation that utilizes cold plasma technology to close surgical wounds. Read on and…be amazed.
The critically acclaimed 1996 dark comedy film Fargo, written and directed by The Coen Brothers is coming
to the small screen. That’s right, the hilarious yodeling accent made
famous by actress Frances McDorman in the classic flick also featuring
Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy has cast equal star power for a TV
version about to kick-off on the FX network this week. But that’s not
the only reason Fargo’s in the news these days. . .
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Differing from a tangible invention, new virtual tools for traders are shaking up the financial industry. Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys
— a top-selling treatise on the state of modern-day Wall Street — is
turning the stock market ecosystem on its head. For those who still
think the hallowed halls of the stock exchange is still about alpha-male
floor traders whaling in trading pits to ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ – think again
— for that world is officially DOA.
I’d like to interrupt my regularly scheduled posts to talk about a very serious issue: Heartbleed. Although plenty of websites have already patched the vulnerability, many users don’t realize how serious the situation actually was. In short, it might be the worst security flaw seen in decades.
A few months ago, AMD revelaed what it hoped would be the future of gaming – Mantle, a "revolutionary" application programming interface. This year, we’re finally seeing the results. Let’s take a closer look at the technology to figure out just how AMD means to change gaming.
Are you wondering what this beetle has to do with holding up an ATM? Well, this innocent looking bombardier beetle
is not so innocent; in fact, this beetle is the inspiration for a foam
bomb developed to explode in a burglar’s face if he tries to mess with
an ATM.
When you hear about or see designs that can really help people lead fuller lives, you want them available – now! That’s how MIT’s FingerReader
hit me. Well, I said, to no one in particular, if you can prototype it,
get it done, roll it out, let people who are blind or visually impaired
have access to it – right now! The FingerReader is something they will want.
Are your ears ringing? Does your heart skip a beat? Well, they should – as two divergent forms of malware attacked
our online sense of well-being this week. Engineered by social media
gurus on one front and hackers on the other, one was analogous to an American Idol trainwreck, while the other, the work of a nefarious cat burglar
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