LIGHTWEIGHT DRONE SEES IN INFRARED TO FIND LOST HIKERS
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey D. AthertonNO NEED TO WONDER ABOUT WANDERERS
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Techno Gadgets
YOU CAN NOW PLAY LASER TAG WITH YOUR SMARTPHONE
• http://www.popsci.com, By Dave GershgornFATHER.IO MAKES THE WORLD ONE BIG AUGMENTED REALITY GAME
Google Backs New Messaging Rival to Apple, Facebook That Even the Feds Will Love
• http://recode.net, By Mark BergenOn Monday morning, Google announced it had teamed up with a slew of telecom operators to back a new uniform messaging system for Android phones.
Smartphones Are Better Now That They're Done Imitating iPhones
• http://www.wired.comIn the beginning there was the iPhone. Then came a bunch of phones that tried to be just like it. Then those phones tried to be different, but in variously off-putting ways.
Exercise AND Wash Laundry With This Amazing Eco-Friendly Bicycle
• http://www.trueactivist.comThe Bike Washing Machine encourages you to conserve energy and get fit while completing household tasks.
Virtual Reality In The Enterprise
• http://techcrunch.com, by Sean JacobsohnThis year is already shaping up to be the year virtual reality (VR) goes mainstream. In January, Oculus Rift stole the spotlight at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas by (finally) announcing a $599 price and late Q1 ship date.
Apple's FBI Battle Is About the Gadgets We Haven't Even Thought of Yet
• http://www.pcmag.com, BY EVAN DASHEVSKYTim Cook knows you won't buy insecure Apple products. This is a battle for the tech coming your way in 2026.
This Innovative Camper Is A Combination Tent And Sleeping Bag
• http://www.trueactivist.comThe Ultra-light All-In-One Sleep System offers the functions of a tent, sleeping bag and sleeping mat all in one.
Smartphones to replace cards at bank machines
• globalpost.com, Agence France-PresseHere's another use for the smartphone as it invades daily life: in place of your debit card at your bank cash machine.
Will smartphones in 2021 bend and flex like a paperback book?
• gizmag.comWhether it's the curved edges of Samsung's Edge devices or Apple's 3D Touch, smartphone manufacturers are always looking for ways to provide users with novel experiences.
5D glass discs can store data for as long as the universe has existed
• http://inhabitat.comTake everything you know about data storage and set it aside, because a breakthrough from a research team at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Center (ORC) could change everything.
InStep NanoPower shoes harvest kinetic energy while you walk
• http://inhabitat.comHarnessing abundant but inaccessible energy from unlikely sources may soon be as simple as taking a walk in the park. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a new method of harvesting kinetic energy from human locomotion.
Wearable third arm gives drummers extra robotic rhythm
• http://www.gizmag.comThumping out as many drum beats in 60 seconds may get you a podium spot at the annual World's Fastest Drummer competition, but we'll take the full kit virtuoso playing of Cozy Powell, Philthy Animal Taylor or Mitch Mitchell any day of the week.
The Largest Air Purifier In The World Sucks Up Smog And Turns it Into Gemstones
• http://www.trueactivist.comThe Smog Free Tower scrubs the pollution from more than 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour, then condenses it into tiny "gemstones" that can be embedded in rings, cufflinks, and more!
The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying
• http://www.theguardian.com, Trevor TimmMany consumers are wholly unaware that the smart devices making their home more custom and responsive are making data that can be hacked or collected
New York & California Move to Ban the Sale of Current iPhones...
• thefreethoughtproject.com, By Jay SyrmopoulosIn January, state legislators from both California and New York introduced bills that would ban the retail sale of smartphones with full-disk encryption ??" a technology designed to guarantee customers' digital data stored within a phone is only
Electronic luggage tag lets travelers check-in bags from home
• gizmag.comExpensive travel bags should do more than look good, and German high-end luggage manufacturer Rimowa would seem to agree.
Electronic luggage tag lets travelers check-in bags from home
• gizmag.comExpensive travel bags should do more than look good, and German high-end luggage manufacturer Rimowa would seem to agree.
How I quit my smartphone addiction and really started living
• http://www.theguardian.com,I don't like being bothered or bossed around. I hated that anyone, for any reason, could interrupt my life, and I could interrupt my life just the same
The future is here, some assembly required
• theverge.comDon't blink or you'll miss it
Watch a Designer Work with the Unreal Engine from Within Virtual Reality
• motherboard.vice.comSoon, developers will be able to build games from within a virtual reality environment.
This Amazing Drinking Bottle Creates Water Out Of Thin Air!
• True ActivistUsing solar technology to harvest fresh water, this cool invention has the potential to make a huge difference to the world.
Those new USB-C cords can fry your laptop
• cnn.comThe gadget world is slowly adopting a new power cord standard called USB Type-C. They're small, multipurpose, universal, reversible and might fry whatever gadget you plug them into.
TURN YOUR SMARTPHONE INTO A SOLAR PANEL
• http://www.popsci.com, By Nicole LouAND LET THE DEVICE RECHARGE ITSELF
Makers of 'mindblowing' sex robot with virtual vagina swamped with orders
• popsci.comWarning - graphic content : Randy men can't get enough of innovate VirtuaDolls sex aid - prompting the firm behind it to make an astonishing admission
World's smallest optical switch uses a single atom
• http://www.gizmag.com, Colin JeffreyThe rapid and on-going development of micro-miniature optical electronic devices is helping to usher in a new era of photonic computers and light-based memories that promise super-fast processor speeds and ultra-secure communications.
Meet the Redditors Who Designed a Hyperloop Pod
• http://motherboard.vice.comNearly all of the teams trying to build a "pod" that will work in Elon Musk's futuristic hyperloop transportation tubes spent months toiling away together in university classrooms engineering their designs. One of the teams, however, only met e
Apple has 'team of hundreds' developing virtual and augmented reality headsets
• dailymail.co.uk$599 Oculus Rift goes on sale in March Microsoft's Hololens expected to ship to developers withing months
The Hyperloop Competition Is Happening This Weekend In Texas
• http://www.popsci.comPhase 1 of the much-anticipated Hyperloop competition is finally here. This weekend, teams from around the world will gather at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, to showcase their best ideas for a pod for the hypothetical tube-based tra
State of the Game: Virtual Reality
• gizmag.comYou've probably heard by now that virtual reality is supposed to be a thing this year.
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