Whatever happened to the Colton Harris-Moore, the rebel-without-a-cause
(aka the Barefoot Bandit)? Here was a teenager brought up in a turbulent
low-income household who went on to earn international notoriety and a
huge following in the social media space commencing back in 2010.
There’s a genetic mutation that keeps certain persons from having smelly
underarms and sticky ear wax. The question, to a group of scientists
from the University of Bristol in Great Britain, was whether persons
with no underarm odor used deodorant anyway. The results of their study
of 17,000 individuals are published in the advance online edition of
the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Be afraid, Ralph Kramdens of the world, be VERY afraid: Shanghai’s imminent experiment with driverless, magnetically-guided, electric-powered buses could be the start of a new urban transportation revolution.
We may be living in a world of high tech espionage, but New York artist Adam Harvey is creating a line of clothing called Stealth Wear that will allow individuals to remain invisible. It is the sort of breakthrough that will have paranoid people around the globe turning in their tin foil hats for fashion-forward hoodies and scarfs. Harvey’s earliest creations are on display all this month at Primitive, a trendy West London boutique.
MedXCom is a new smartphone app that is changing the way doctors and patients interact by providing a central place for medical records and a secure way to exchange information, but that’s not all. The benefits of this little app extend well beyond the doctor’s office and into the singles bar.
It looks like data use for smart phone users is on the rise, a change from the past when tablets ruled the data useage landscape. And will the iPhone users finally be dethroned from their data usage dominance by Samsung?
A look at a mouseless mouse that lets your fingers do the browsing.
Chevrolet has now unveiled its seventh generation of Corvettes. The 2014 Corvette Stingray was revealed this week at the Detroit Auto Show. While retaining iconic Corvette spirit and style, the 2014 Corvette Stingray also incorporates advanced technological features in a complete redesign, the seventh such change in the brand’s 60 year history. Read on to learn what’s new.
Google’s augmented reality glasses may just be coming true soon. The project that is making those glasses possible, uncreatively named
Project Glass, has been the temptation of the gadget fiends in the
recent past.
New voice command AI for military drones under development.
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