Bet you didn’t have this marked on your calendar: today is World Vasectomy Day, a holiday celebrated not with parades or fireworks, but with the delicate snip of two tiny tubes. But is such a largely permanent step really our only male birth control option? Where’s the male version of the pill?
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A group of Chinese scientists at Shanghai’s Fudan University have a bright idea: A lightbulb that produces its own Wi-Fi signal. According to Xinhua, the technology is called Li-Fi, and the prototype actually works better than the average connection in China.
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What some classifies as one of the most dangerous asteroids ever discovered zipped past the Earth last month. The asteroid is called 2013 TV135 and the asteroid will again pass close by the Earth in about 20 years. The asteroid made headlines again when reports surfaced that there was a chance the Earth and the […]
can be weird. Changes in societal norms and human psychology can mean that some things that once seemed perfectly normal suddenly become taboo—so unpicking the murky world of perversion can be both interesting and difficult.
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Putting on makeup might not be the same any more in the future, as wearable technology takes on a whole new level of interactivity. With the clever application of conductive makeup in common beauty items such as false eyelashes, nails and eyeshadow, computer scientist Katia Vega managed to figure out a way to make conductive elements as well as sensors part of transforming an ordinary makeup into gadget-activating remote controls.
Whenever the eyeshadow is applied to both the top and bottom of the wearer’s eye, if you were to take longer than 0.5 seconds to blink, sensors within the eyeshadow and metallized fake lashes will hook up and complete a low-voltage circuit. This would then be able to launch a miniature drone in theory, activating an LED headpiece in other applications, with one’s imagination being the limit. For instance, how about other low-voltage applications such as switching a musical track or a presentation image?
Of course, there would also be other experiments by Vega that involved the use of false nails, so that the wearer is able to be a DJ by controlling the music with just the surface of a pool of water alongside one’s nails. Is the age of the Hunger Games coming?
Makeup Gets Conductive original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Scotty won’t be beaming you up anytime soon. According to the U of L’s Journal of Special Physics, even if it were possible, the amount of time it would take to download and re-upload a human brain would be equivalent to over four quadrillion years. Looks like we’ll have to invent time travel first.
Plants have evolved all kinds of wonderful mechanisms that let them disperse their seeds and reproduce, from puffy dandy lions to maple keys that spin their way to the ground. But none are quite as impressive as the squirting cucumber, which launches its seed pods like tiny high-speed missiles.
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A cheeky wink can say an awful lot—but now it can do an awful lot, too. A new range of conducting cosmetics means that you could soon be activating electronics with the blink of an eye.
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Researchers from Germany have created the world’s fastest wireless network capable of hitting 100 Gbps. A transfer rate of 100 Gbps is capable of moving 12.5 GB of data each second. That is 10 times faster than the speedy Google Fiber Internet service available in some parts of the country. The researchers who created the […]
Last Thursday, astronauts aboard the ISS snapped pictures of bizarre clouds and posted the photographs to twitter. The same day a number of reports were made from citizens in Russia claiming to have seen a UFO. As it turns out, both the UFO reports and bizarre clouds photographed from the ISS were linked to the […]
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