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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 ...
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50 Things We No Longer Do Because Of Tech Advancements [Infographic]
As most of you know, we try to cover the edge of technology quite a lot. It's not necessarily a hard task in itself since the world's technological advancements are on an ever increasing incline. Of course we cover all things in between as well, and as we trail the path of the technologies of tomorr ...
Sunroof Digital Screens Might Soon Grace Subway Cars
As we've all expected, we will soon have digital screens pretty much everywhere. We'll have to see whether or not our public areas will look like something from the Blade Runner movie. But at the pace things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case in about 50 years from now. Our pri ...
Bubble Touch: The Smartphone With 2 Keyboards To Match Your Mood
There are probably thousands of smartphone concept designs on the Internet. It seems like everyone has an idea about what the perfect smartphone would be like. If you could design your own smartphone, what features would you make sure it had? I would want all the Star Trek technology incorporated in ...
Servo Glasses Automate The Geeky Switch To Sunglasses
As a geek, there are always solutions that are more optimized than our regular boring ways of doing things. That is especially true when it comes to technology. I mean, in a way, the computer was initially a way to help us calculate large numbers. That in itself is an optimization created by the "ge ...
The Ultimate Pool Party: Interactive Animation Made With 65,000 Balls
If you wanted to create a screen on top of the water of a swimming pool to project a light installation, and you wanted it to be an interactive animation so swimmers could really experience it, how would you do it? You could do what Red Paper Heart did and dump 65,000 ping-pong balls into the swimmi ...
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How Algorithms Change The World As We Know It [Infographic]
When you think of all the things that have impacted our lives over the years, do you ever think of all the algorithms that have been implemented around us? The word algorithm is one of those scary words that seems complicated, but it isn't. It's just the step-by-step procedure for a calculation. Alg ...
Hidden Touch: The Secret Touchpad On Your Wireless Keyboard
One of the most annoying things about using a desktop computer is the mouse. The computer mouse is the only trace of what computers were like back in the '90s, and quite honestly, I can't believe we even still use them. Well, I almost never use mine since I use my laptop 95% of the time, but there a ...
Gaming Bed For $52,000 Is The Ultimate Solution For Computer Addicts
Our craving for all things technology is increasing every day. We're continuously trying to fit more time in front of the computer every chance we get. We have mobile devices to make sure we have access to each other and the Internet in pretty much all places. The comfort of our lifestyle seems to b ...
Wrist Charger Puts An Emergency Power Source On Your Wrist
Most of us have at some point found ourselves in the annoying situation when our battery runs out on our mobile device. At that point, there is little to be done other than trying to find a power outlet or USB device so we can charge our device once again. When you start thinking about it, it's real ...