Gadgeteer reader Sandee Cohen writes in with some potentially good news for Amazon Kindle Keyboard owners: Julie, You might want to write this up as a post. I got a Kindle Keyboard model Christmas 2010. ByNovember 2011, some of the letters on the keyboard had started to fade. (I play a lot of word games [...]
We covered the launch of Summly an application that summarises text last year, but I recently caught up with Nick D’Aloisio, the16 year year-old programmer who came up with the application for a video interview. TechCrunch
The ancient Greeks called the thapsia garganica plant “deadly carrot,” because their camels would eat it and quickly die. The Roman emperor Nero mixed it with frankincense to treat bruises. Until the early 20th century it was used in a plaster to treat rheumatism—the side effects, however, were barely worth the cure. More » Gizmodo
The video that you see below is a demonstration of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory at U Penn. Their work with nano-quadrotors is nothing short of amazing. The tiny rotor craft are able to fly in some pretty big formations and avoid simulated obstacles. At this point there probably isn’t much [...]
I wake up every morning at 6 am and while the rest of the house is still fast asleep I have a quiet bowl of cereal while I ponder my day, Sure I’d like a more substantial breakfast sometimes, but I don’t want to make a mess in the kitchen and I don’t want to [...]
For months we’ve been waiting on Razer’s Blade notebook, a $ 2800, 17-inch beast that we weren’t sure whether to laud or mock. It’s just that it’s kind of a strange thing to see making a big debut when people are more cautious than usual with their money, and PC gaming (as ever) is being [...]
A team of South Korean scientists, with the help of some government funding, have been working on an app, that will use the specific capacitative sensitivity of the phone’s touchscreens to diagnose some diseases by using a single droplet of blood, saliva or other, as yet, unspecified secretions. The team, at the Korea Advanced Institute [...]
Current monitoring of large structures such as bridges, wind turbines and mines generally relies on time consuming visual inspections that use specialized instrumentation and equipment. Translation: it’s expensive. But if damage can be detected before any structural damage occurs, maintenance bills can also be significantly reduced and safety increased. Researchers at the University of Strathclyde [...]