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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
Games used to be fun. At some point in time games even had an option to save the current progress so that you could later come back and restart the game where you left it. But today games do cater to our entertainment anymore. Games today are in the business…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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…