The luminescent bike path

The luminescent bike path
In Poland, near Lidzbark Warminski, a new bike path was created that get bright at night after being charged by the sun during the day. The company who created the path tried to be as cost effective as possible, as the materials are more expensive than the materials used in… Continue reading

Wintergatan – Marble Machine

Wintergatan – Marble Machine
Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan has debuted his musical marble machine. It took more than two years to plan, build and tweaking the machine, but it sound amazingly. Continue reading

The Zipf mystery

The Zipf mystery
Vsauce published this video where he talks about the relationship between word usage ranking and the frequency they are used, as all as the relationship between Zipf’s Law and the Pareto Law and how the Zipf law works for so many things in the world and our live. An interesting… Continue reading

What if 3D printing was 100x faster?

What if 3D printing was 100x faster?
Joseph DeSimone introduces a new method of 3D printing that is not only up to 100x faster than traditional 3D printing, but also don’t have most of the problems of the current 3D printing technology – the printed objects are not layered like with traditional printing and they can be printed with… Continue reading

Will our kids be a different species?

Will our kids be a different species?
In this TED Talk, Juan Enriquez talks about the evolution of the human species, and asks if our children will be of a different specie. Continue reading

Dell starts to accept bitcoin

Dell starts to accept bitcoin
Dell announced that they are now accepting Bitcoins in their website, making them one of the biggest companies in the world to accept the digital currency. Their announcement is completed with a list of advices to all the bitcoin users about keeping their e-wallet secure, and a toturial on how… Continue reading

DSL router patch hides backdoor instead of closing it

DSL router patch hides backdoor instead of closing it
Last Christmas Eloi Vanderbeken of Synacktiv Digital Security gave the owner of 24 models of DSL modems that their equipment have a backdoor that allowed to send administrative commands to the routers without a password. The list of affected modems include home models from Netgear, Cisco (branded Cisco and Linksys alike) and Diamond.… Continue reading

Living with lag – an oculus rift experiment

Living with lag – an oculus rift experiment
A group of volunteers tried to do a couple of day-to-day tasks with a 3 seconds delay. See how that did go… They use a oculus rift to create a delay between what is in front of them and what they see by three seconds, making real live way more interesting.… Continue reading

News on Patents

News on Patents
Microsoft signs Motorola to Android patent pact – no, not Motorola Mobility, Motorola Solutions, the part that Google didn’t buy, has signed an agreement with Microsoft to license the “approximately 200 patent families that are necessary to build an Android phone” Microsoft owns. That leaves only Motorola Mobility – now part of… Continue reading

Kepler-186f needs a better name

Kepler-186f needs a better name
Kepler space telescope found a planet that is similar in size to earth and is inside the Goldilocks zone – the zone around a star where a planet may have water in it’s liquid state at the surface – of the M class Red Dwarf start he orbits. NASA says that… Continue reading

Supreme Court makes it easier to make the trolls pay

Supreme Court makes it easier to make the trolls pay
The US Supreme court thinks that if your claims in a patent case are bad enough, you should pay all the costs of both parties. This is a good decision from the Supreme court, that sends two cases back to the lower courts to new decisions. Courts are usually not big… Continue reading