05/25/2012, It is an assumption that most of us have had our share of battles with stubborn ketchup that just doesn’t want to come out of the bottle. As we wait for it to slowly make its way towards the bottle mouth, it sometimes feels like years have gone by until it finally graces the meal on which you use it on. On that front however, we now have some good […]

05/25/2012, The Google Glass has definitely been getting its share of publicity with various tech celebrities like Google CEO Larry Page, spotted wearing it just a few days back. Now apparently, the Mountain View based online giant has posted a brief video on its Google+ profile that it claims was captured with the Google Glass by an employee. The video depicts the employee in question bouncing about on a trampoline while […]

05/24/2012, Some people do complain that they get sea-sick when sleeping on a water bed, but that is such old news. Now a Reddit user with the handle ‘mememetatata’ has come up with a creation as wacky as the nickname. With $1,000, he built a floating bed that can comfortably sleep one person due to the fact that two people would make the rig collapse. The bed is held up by […]

05/23/2012, The Port Authority of New York has announced plans to add new customer service agents to LaGuardia, Newark and JFK airports this coming July. These are not ordinary agents though, they are computerized hologram-like agents that will be deployed to work in an effort to beef up the Port Authority’s customer care program, especially during the busy summer season. WNYC Radio was able to get a video of one of […]

05/22/2012, We’ve seen Sergey Brin wearing the famous Project Glass last month when the Google co-founder attended a charity event in San Francisco. A few weeks after that, Sebastian Thrun of Google’s Project X was also spotted wearing Project Glass in an interview with Charlie Rose. Earlier this month, Google’s Senior Vice President, Vic Gundotra, was also caught wearing the glasses during a recent interview with CNET. So, if you’re wondering […]

05/21/2012, The folks over at Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering are taking 3D printing to a whole new different level. Enter DreamVendor, a set of four MakerBot Thing-O-Matics that is enclosed in a glass. It’s not really your typical vending machine, but boy, the DreamVendor does one special thing – it turns Computer Aided Design or CAD into a physical object. If you think it’s crazy, check out the video above. […]

05/17/2012, According to Intellectual Property centric blog Patentbolt, Google has just been granted three design patents this week with one highlighting how its Project Glass could work with hand gestures. Patentbolt added that the associated hand gesturing feature will be operable day or night due to advanced wearable markers in the form of rings and invisible digital tattooing. The said wearable markers could take in the form of a ring, a […]

05/17/2012, Researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology or Empa have developed an air-conditioned bulletproof vest based on Coolpad technology that could help keep police officers cool under the heat of the sun. Empa’s Coolpad technology was originally designed for use in cooling garments for various medical applications. According to Empa, the Coolpads are built into the vest and they evaporate sweat through the membrane to help […]

05/16/2012, If you think that PowerDrive’s Power Snorkel air tank was cool, wait until you’ll get your hands on one these next generation Powerbreather snorkel. The Powerbreather allows swimmers to keep their heads submerged underwater. This state of the art snorkel is designed to prevent water penetration. Made from an elastic material, the ring-shaped snorkel fits tightly around the head of a swimmer. According to its German-based designer, air is inhaled […]

05/16/2012, A group of scientists from Japan have been tinkering with something that is called the “T-ray” band. It is basically an unregulated part of the network spectrum that lies between 300GHz and 3THz or between microwaves and far infrared waves. When we say unregulated, we mean that for now, no internet service provider uses that network and since it is unused, there is no need for a set of rules […]

05/16/2012, Ikea’s Uppleva TV which was announced a while back just got detailed a bit further. The television which is said to be coming to the US in April 2013, will come in four different sizes that range from 24-inches to 46-inches. In addition to what we already know about the Uppleva is that the Swedish inspired television will come in an ‘all-in-one design’ that features cabinets or storage spaces that […]

05/10/2012, AIRbudz are alternative earbud attachments that can be used on your earphones while you are listening to music in environments which require you to pay attention to what’s around you. The project made its way to the crowd-funding website Kickstarter and is a nifty little innovation. AIRbudz is a creation of SafeSound products which are looking to runners, bikers and music enthusiasts to support its product. AIRbudz will replace the […]

05/09/2012, RIM has been granted the patent for what seems like a trapezoidal physical keyboard that apparently makes typing easier especially with larger thumbs. We know that RIM is good at making physical keyboards that provide an amazing tactile experience while typing albeit it’s small keys. Nevertheless, with this patent that was originally filed in 2009, it seems that the company has come up with what seems to be a solution […]

05/08/2012, Sharp has made a vacuum cleaner that roams about a room going about its business and once it is done it settles into its little charging dock to regain its energy. The Cocorobo which looks very much like the Roomba by iRobot, is actually a tri-lingual vacuum cleaner that can even act as a mobile camera which upon-demand, can take 4 photos of its surroundings which divulge all the details […]