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40 Foot Touchscreen Gallery Helps Visitors Find New Artwork
As we reported yesterday, Rio de Janeiro is the first city to implement QR codes into their sidewalk design. It's an effort to help tourists find new information about the city and its history without cluttering the city with ugly, bulky signs. It seems information is about to take over our immediat ...
Power Loader From The Movie Aliens Soon A Reality
One of the most memorable movie moments in science fiction history is when Ellen Ripley battles the mother alien in the movie Aliens. When she steps into the power loader and literally kicks the living breath out of her opponent, you just know it's going to make movie history. Throughout the years, ...
Pen Scanner: The Ultimate Secret Agent Mobile Office Tool
Just yesterday I wrote an article about some clever tips to use your smartphone more efficiently for work. One of the things I learned from that, which seems so obvious now, is to use the smartphone camera in place of a scanner when we're working mobile and have no access to an actual scanner. With ...
Double-Sided Transparent Smartphone Presented By Docomo
What's so appealing about a transparent smartphone? Well, it could be that it allows for a whole lot of new features. First of all, applying touch to both sides would make the user interface a new breed. There are of course a whole lot of positive effects when a smartphone goes transparent. I have w ...
Sidewalk Design To Provide QR Codes With Tourist Information
It's no joke to say QR codes have become a huge hit around the world. Pretty much every product I buy today has a QR code embedded on it. I's a great way to keep product information updated and current. So why aren't they used even more within our already jam packed technological world? The answer t ...
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Home Office Design Of 2001 As Imagined In 1967 [Video]
Our expectations when it comes to technology seem to know no boundaries. For every new smartphone, TV, game console, yeah pretty much everything, we expect something groundbreaking, but innovating is not something you do overnight. It's a science weaved into technological optimization which sometime ...
Multi-Lens 3D Display Might Change The Depth Of Our TVs Forever
At the movie theater, we often have the option to either watch the movie in 3D or plain 2D. The option to watch movies in 3D was propelled by the heavily successful movie Avatar. It was one of the greatest breakthroughs in cinematic history to introduce the 3D format into theaters all over the world ...
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5 Clever Tips To Help You Optimize Working On Your Smartphone [Video]
If you are like me, you carry all your mobile gadgets with you everywhere you go so you can immediately set up a mini-office in a coffee shop, in a client's office or even in your car. My "technology bag" has everything in it from my iPhone to my iPad and every kind of power cord, car adaptor and ba ...
Real Hologram Generates 50,000 Dots Into Mid-Air 3D Objects
You might read the title of this article and think, "Real hologram? Nah, there's no such thing yet." If it would have been a couple of years ago, I would have agreed, but now I am not so sure anymore. The technology it takes to generate a real hologram is quite a feat to produce, at least that is wh ...
Japan To Introduce Amazing Realtime 3D Cyber-Attack Alert System
As the Internet grows larger, the cyber-attacks get ever more sinister and elaborate. Keeping an eye on all of them is of course an impossible task. In the movies we always see mega bunkers with screens covering entire walls, all displaying ridiculous hacker related information. A company in Japan n ...
Personalized 3D Printed Pez Dispenser Featuring Your Own Head
I never thought a Pez dispenser article would fall into the category of technology, but this definitely does. Surely you remember eating Pez candy when you were young. The little candies get loaded into the dispenser, and when you pull the head back, the candy pops out. It was one of my favorites wh ...
FaceTime Could Involve Artificial Presence In The Near Future
When Apple launched FaceTime for the first time, it wasn't exactly a new technology. A lot of people got very excited, but services like Skype already offered "Facetime" when you Skyped over the Internet. What Apple did was to bring the feature natively into the iPhone. It was a big step for confere ...
Transparent Touchscreen Vending Machine Remembers You
Things are moving fast now. Just a year ago, we were introduced to the possibilities of a transparent touchscreen. Now it seems the concept is in full motion and being implemented in a row of different devices. I must admit that I had my doubts about the usefulness of transparent touchscreens. Scien ...
How To: Make An NFC-Enabled Phone Charging Dock From Old Books
If you don't mind carving up an old book, this is such a creative phone charging dock. If you have an iPhone, you can just skip the whole part about NFC, but if you have an NFC-enabled Android phone, you might want to have some extra fun and add an NFC component to your dock, which you'll be able to ...
Bicycle Barometer Tells You If You Should Ride Your Bike To Work
If you need a little geeky design inspiration for the day, this little bicycle barometer ought to provide that. It's so simple, yet so worth taking a look at. I'm one of those people who would ditch my car and ride my bike everywhere if I could. I hope to do that someday. There are countless reasons ...