A trip to the ISS is a vacation unlike any other and calls for a camera that’s more than ordinary. When Dr Koichi Wakata, a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut, blasts off in the Space Shuttle Discovery on March 12, he’ll be...
The Oasis of the Seas is a project so massive in ambition and scale it would leave you dumbfounded, and then some more. The 18-storied superliner is currently under construction, and when it sets sail as planned – later this year – it will become.
Too much is not enough when it comes to the controllers that are associated with Nintendo’s Wii. Even if we were not to count the third-party stuff, we have plenty bearing the “official” tag. Add to that list the Classic Controller PRO. The...
Going on a little secret mission, are we? Frisked by the bodyguards of a super-villain what last weapon does one have? Why, the trusted old phone-in-a-shoe, of course. And thanks to Paul Gardner-Stephen, an Australian computer scientist at the...
The word "cyborg" no more exists in imagination and fantasy, it has gone beyond and has reached the tenterhooks of realism. DARPA has its own cyborg animals being created and there are chaps at Sega in Japan who’ve developed cyborg chicks, which...
Sources in the Prime View International (the makers of the Kindle's electrophoretic display) state that a new e-book Kindle would be made available with an increased screen size and added touch functions by the end of the year. With the rumors gaining..
It’s time for more leaked information, and it’s about the Acer Hornet this time. If the claims of Donanim Haber are believed, owing to what the Turkish website reports, the Hornet is Acer’s Wiimote-style gaming console with a remote control....
Simplicity is perhaps the ultimate sophistication, and unless we agree otherwise, churning things to be simple and realistic helps the mere cause of innovation. Such is this mini-USB cable with an inline SD card reader from Brando , which with utmost...
After having seen a host of robots that mimic human facial expressions, it’s time scientists added some real feel to the mechanical scale and develop a robot that also responds accordingly. With the face of Albert Einstein, it is a robot stuffed with.
When caught in the rut, it is the human tendency to blame the environment. The internet has been the subject of such disgust, with parents blaming it for their child’s blighted upbringing. It’s impossible, however, for parents to regularly...