Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik’s famous puzzle cube has been around for 44 years now, but never like this. The GoCube is a Bluetooth-connected Rubik’s Cube dripping with sensors that teaches you how to navigate its 43 quintillion permutations and lets you battle other cubers online. If you’re anything like me, you’ve played with Rubik’s Cubes scores of times in your […]
Rubik’s Cube In The Digital Age
Herding Birds Away
Birds can cause a surprising amount of headaches for airplanes. Perhaps the most famous recent example of this was the 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson” incident, when pilots were forced to land on the Hudson River after U.S. Airways flight 1549 was struck by a flock of geese after takeoff. Engineers at the California Institute of Technology recently turned to […]
360-Degree Body Scanning Mirror
San Francisco’s Naked Labs has started shipping its 3D-scanning smart mirror with rotating scale. Connected to a mobile app, the Naked scales build 3D models of your body, then track them through your hypothetical healthy transformation. The Naked system consists of three pieces. The first is a smart mirror, with three embedded Intel RealSense depth sensors capable of scanning objects […]
Cooling Pillows For People Who Sweat A lot
The warm-blooded among us know that kicking the covers off isn’t always enough to keep cool when you’re trying to sleep. Even with modern air conditioning, the higher ambient temperatures and humidity that come with summer can make your nightly rest a sweatier ordeal than it should be. Your head can get especially hot at night due to contact with […]
Can Your Mac Be Converted Into A Windows 10 Machine Using This?
A new prototype USB stick called the SuperSpeedBlazer is claimed to turn a Mac in to a Windows 10 machine capable of running the latest games. The device is claimed to boot Windows in around 10 seconds, which runs natively on the Mac – rather than inside a less efficient virtual machine as is the case with a software alternative […]
Getty Images AI Service
As newsrooms churn out stories quicker than ever, photo editors are tasked with putting in the final touches without much hesitation. To meet the content standards of modern audiences, and the pace of the content creators, Getty Images is developing an Artificial Intelligence that will present the most applicable images by simply scanning the textno longer are strenuous searches required. […]
Daigou to Chinese Consumers
Australian skincare brand Bondi Goddess launched last month, with products being both Australia-made and owned… but the products are only available to Chinese customers. The products are sold exclusively through daigousales.com, which connects Australian businesses with shoppers buying on behalf of Chinese customers. ‘Daigou’ is a Chinese word that refers to an overseas shopper who purchases items specifically for a customer in Mainland China.
Joining Old With New, Mercury Tower
Zaha Hadid Architects recently unveiled a new skyscraper for a tourist area in Malta. Named Mercury Tower, it features a distinctive twisting form and, assuming it goes ahead, will be joined onto an existing building on the site that was originally constructed in the early 20th century. Mercury Tower is the main part of a development that will also involve […]
Trident The Underwater Scooter
It used to be that a day at the beach required a pair of swim trunks or equivalent, a picnic, and maybe a shovel and bucket if you really wanted to go the extra mile. That was before the recent wave of underwater jet packs, drones, and assorted other gadgets that turn a day lying on the sand into some […]
Bugatti’s New Sky Roof
Bugatti hasn’t released a convertible version of the Chiron just yet, but it’s now giving buyers a way to put a little more sunlight overhead. The optional Sky View roof opens up views of the great, big blue above with twin glass panels, adding a little bit of touring luxury to the performance-optimized hyper-coupe. Available as of Bugatti’s announcement on […]