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Imagine you’re a truck driver. You’re coming up to a tunnel that might be too low for your truck to fit under, but you’re not sure. Suddenly, a gigantic red stop sign appears to obstruct the road in front of the tunnel entrance, giving you no doubt. Stop!
You’re not going to overlook that explicit warning
What is this sorcery? See the video above to find out more about how this remarkable sign is created with a instantaneously produced sheet of water and — you guessed it — frickin’…
Think your network is fast? Getting a gigagbyte-sized movie over your local wireless network to your hard drive in a few seconds is old hat. Now there’s a network that can push a 2-hour, high-definition movie to a computer a mile away in less time than it takes to read a single word.
At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, a new record has been set: 40GB per second over a distance of about .6 of a mile. That’s like sending 10 high-def feature films
What makes this possible is a…
Google made a lot of announcements in its marathon keynote to kick off Google I/O on Wednesday, but its most buzzed-about product was almost a no-show at the eventGoogle Glass barely got a mention, even though this is the first I/O where the tiny wearable computer is actually in developers’ hands.
The glaring omission didn’t stop Glass from stealing the show for the rest of the conference, though. Day 2 of I/O was packed with sessions on Glass, including one where official Twitter, Facebook…
Wearable gizmos are the next frontier in the world of technology. And fitness trackers like Fitbit or Nike+ FuelBand already give runners a great way to track their workouts. But what about swimmers? Until now, they’ve been left out of the gadget tracker fad. But Instabeat, a wearable accessory for swimmer’s goggles, might change that.
Think of a mix between Google Glass and a Nike+ FuelBand and you get Instabeat
Instabeat is a device that attaches directly to a swimmer’s goggles and…
Samsung’s programmable TecTile technology is finally coming to the Galaxy S4.
TecTiles are Samsung’s near-field communications (NFC) stickers that be placed around the house or car, so you can automate certain tasks
Want to dim the lights and not get up from the couch? How about activate a media player from afar? All you’ll need to do is to tap your Samsung smartphone against the sticker after it’s programmed within the accompanying app and life will be much better.
TecTiles first launched…
As Google‘s annual developer conference, Google I/O, nears the end, it’s time to take a look back at some of the biggest announcements the company made. The event kicked off with a 3.5-hour keynote which Mashable Editor-in-Chief Lance Ulanoff noted solidified Google as “the world’s most powerful and important company.”
While there was no major sky-diving presentation that marked the Google Glass demo at Google I/O 2012, there were plenty of announcements that made consumers and developers…
Add the Financial Times to the list of publications who have been compromised in recent months by an anonymous hacker collective calling itself the “Syrian Electronic Army.”
Multiple FT blogs and social media accounts were hacked into on Friday morning, a spokeswoman for the FT confirmed to Mashable. On the FT.com blogs page, the headlines of some recent posts read, “Tech blog: Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army,” according to screenshots obtained by The Telegraph. The group also posted the…
Solar energy sounds like a dream, but buying and installing the equipment necessary to harness the power of the Sun can be expensive. But what if you could print your own solar panels?
The researchers at Australia’s Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) — a collaboration between the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), the University of Melbourne, Monash University and industry partners — have managed to print photovoltaic cells the size of an A3…
If you think Google Glass looks a little weird now, take a look at how it got its start
During a Fireside chat at Google I/O Thursday Senior Industrial Designer at Google on the Glass team Isabelle Olsson showed off how Glass looked originally: a scuba mask with a computer board attached to it.
She also spoke about the development process for Glass, and what went in to creating the model that we’re seeing on the street today.
“We took a reductionist approach. We removed everything that…
Electric cars are great for the environment, right? Well, yes, but their carbon footprint isn’t exactly zero. You’re still drawing that electricity from somewhere, mostly coal-fired power stations
How about a solar-powered vehicle, then? There aren’t a lot of those around — for cars, the physics don’t quite make sense yet. There’s a solar-powered plane, though that’s hardly practical for the average commuter.
But you can now at least buy a solar-powered scooter — one where the platform…
