Source: Gizmodo
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Startup want to create”the world’s first augmented television”
A new venture in television created by a San Francisco-based startup combines web content with television programming in a way that makes information-rich viewing experiences nearly seamless. InAir presents television programming...
Nike designer says we can expect self-tying shoes in 2015
The fictional Nike Air Mag sneakers from Back to the Future Part II became a reality in 2011, when Nike auctioned off 1,500 pairs to benefit the Michael J. Fox Foundation. The...
Google gives you front row seats to marriage proposals with Google Glass
First, there’s “Marry Me,” the latest in the company’s Google Glass Explorer Story YouTube series, a short user-generated film shot through the eyes of women and men wearing the hands-free tech...
Ancient footprints saved despite being washed away thanks to 3D mapping
Archaeologists have discovered some of the oldest human footprints in the world during a dig on a beach on the Norfolk coast. The prints, thought to be more than 900,000 years old,...
TouchBase wants to reinvent the business card with smartphones
Is it really the year 2014 and we are still handing each other rectangular scraps of paper when we want to exchange contact information? Sadly, it is. Remember the PalmPilot, which let...
Why the U.S. military’s next-generation camouflage was a complete failure
The art of camouflage is more than throwing paint at a soldier, and it's not one-size-fits-all. That's a lesson the US military has learned to its chagrin, as it phases out what...
Scanning sewage lets researchers determine a city’s favorite drugs
An anecdote from a student over drug use at the University of Puget Sound led one professor to test sewage in an effort to gauge the use of illegal drugs....
Rosetta spacecraft to awaken from its 3-year-long slumber
Two and a half years is a long time to sleep, even for a machine. That's how long Rosetta has slumbered in its decade-long journey towards the comet where it...
3D print your unborn fetus so you can hold it before it’s even born
So you dropped some cash and upgraded to a 4-D ultrasound, and now you’re thinking to yourself, “Well I’ve already had my unborn baby’s glamour shots captured in every dimension...
Researchers discover essentially a 3D version of graphene
A collaboration of researchers at the U.S Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has discovered that sodium bismuthate can exist as a form of quantum matter called a three-dimensional...
China tests new hypersonic missile that can bypass U.S. air defenses
China has flight-tested a hypersonic missile delivery vehicle in a move that was scientific in nature and not targeted at any country, the Defense Ministry said on Monday. A Chinese military...
These doomsday planes protect our leaders from the apocalypse
The E-4B is one of the so-called Doomsday planes. In the event of a nuclear war, a terrorist attack, an alien invasion or, generally speaking, Armageddon, the U.S. Air Force’s four...
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