I don’t know about you, but last time I checked, using parachutes was cheaper than using rockets to land. I guess the people in charge of the SpaceX program know something we don’t. Regardless, they are currently in the process of creating a fully reusable vehicle. This new vehicle will be the key for future
You’ve seen Asimo before, the Honda humanoid that can walk and climb stairs. He’s also one of the world’s most recognized humanoid robots. Asimo now has the ability to learn new tricks thanks to Microsoft’s Kinect. Scientist at Honda Research Institute in Mountain View, California, have programed the robot to take visual information from the
Self driving cars were a thing of the past. Nissan and the Ecole Polytechnique Fedreale de Lausanne in Switzerland teamed up to bring us the next big thing. It’s a mind reading car. Just think about where you want to go, and the vehicle will take us there. The researchers are actually using a brain
Internet Explorer is still sitting at the top of the pyramid, primarily because they come pre-installed when you buy a new PC. But underneath that, you have Firefox and Chrome struggling to see who’s going to catch up to IE first. Right now, Firefox is holding the second place in the race, but Chrome is
The Music Hack Day event in Boston wasn’t a complete waste this year. It yielded The Infinite Jukebox — a website that creates infinitely long versions of uploaded tracks without making them “suck”. You have a couple of options, upload your own MP3 or play from a selected list. The Infinite Jukebox was created by Paul Lamere,
I tried to get into the whole RC Plane and toy helicopter craze when it first came out a about 10 years ago, but money got in the way, parents didn’t want to get involved, and it was one of the biggest disappointments in my life – right behind dropping a jelly covered sandwich face
Typo Squatting and spelling errors on domain names can make your shopping experience at Amazon a living hell. A scammer will typically purchase a domain name that resembles that of a major company and install malware or worse yet, steal hundreds of dollars from your bank account. Because of these scammers, Amazon has taken proactive
Are you tired of what Netflix has been doing for the past couple of months, raising the prices, splitting the service, and raising the prices once more? Well, Blockbuster and Dish Network just partnered up and are ready to take on Netflix… and just when I thought Blockbuster was done with, it still has enough
This is perhaps the coolest thing that has come through my computer screen in a long while. This is also as awesome as neuroscience gets. The image above may not look to fantastic, the one of the left was shown to a test subject. He was told to think about the image, the image to
Well this is embarrassing, if you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, Apple lost another iPhone prototype, and they sent out the police to track it down. They went into a “suspects” home and searched for the precious prototype. At first sight, this doesn’t look wrong. Until the San Francisco PD says It wasn’t
well, it looks like Netflix is about to get a little more dull coming February of 2012. If they did renew their service with Netflix they could of made a whopping $300 million to renew their contract. Unfortunately, the executives said that Stars could lose money if more subscribers went to Netflix instead of ordering
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