• Japan is working on Magnetic, floating train ‘Maglev’ which could run at 500 kph

    The Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) unveiled a prototype of front car of its Series L0 first-generation high-speed magnetic levitation train for commercial service at TSURU, Yamanashi Prefecture. The front car – 28 meters long, 2.9 meters wide and 3.1 meters tall, has a 15-meter-long nose and 24 seats. The carriages…

  • Color Wheels Made From Musician Names And Song Titles – Dorothy

    The designers of We Are Dorothy have designed color charts that feature colors named for songs and musicians. There are two color wheels,  “The Colour Of Song” and “The Colour Of Popular Music.” Ruby Tuesday is a dark red on the song wheel and Black Sabbath is a black on the…

  • The Empire State Building’s First-Ever Light Show! [Video]

    The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. The Empire State Building flexed its fancy new Philips Colour Kinetics LED lighting system muscles for its first-ever light show last night. Watch the video…

  • Make your own Gangam Style video – Jibjab

    Psy’s Gangam style is going viral really! If you are a big fan of the video too, why not make your own? Yes, wanna create such e-cards and send to your friends? Jibjab allows you to do so. You can log-in from facebook and update your photo or add from you computer…

  • Copyright and Privacy Meme Spreading on Facebook – Experts say its a hoax

    Users who’ve logged onto Facebook in the last 24 hours may have seen friends posting a message about “New Facebook Guidelines.” The message urges others to copy and paste the post. Claiming that posting it on your wall would protect copyright and privacy notice. But guys just think about posting…

  • HTC One X Android Jelly Bean 4.1 update rolls out

    Jelly Bean update for HTC One X is currently making its way to HTC phones across the globe.  The update has hit CID_038 and CID_044 devices in India, Argentina, UK, Russia, Dominican Republic, Peru, Brazil and Sri Lanka,and, confirmed to be working by variety of tweets from the Twitter.The update is  expected in…

  • Cocoon 1 – Transparent Sphere by Micasa lab can be your personal space!

    Want to enjoy your personal space and at the same time never wish to miss out the outside world? Ah, the Cocoon1 is going to be your companion then! Cocoon1 is innovative product that magically connects aesthetics and function,developed by Micasa laboratory at Zurich.  Its translucency enables us to let our thoughts…

  • Google Code-in 2012 contest starts November 26

    Google Code-in(GCI) contest for pre-university students ( high school and secondary school students ages 13-17) has kicked off! GCi encourages students to get involved in open source software development. Stephanie Taylor from the Open Source Programs says,”Last year, 542 students from 56 countries competed in the contest: this year you could be…

  • 360-degree Timelapse Video of night sky captured with fisheye lens

    French photographer Stephane Vetter has captured the time-lapse of night sky! No words to say, its exhilarating! Vetter has used 8mm Sigma fisheye and Nikon D3 . The video, Titled Leonid and Zodiacal Light; Vetter has also named few of the stars for us ! Watch the video below! The music is soothing…

  • Tissue generated by hybrid 3D bio-printer helps the injured re-grow cartilage

    American scientists have developed a hybrid printer that prints cartilage, which could one day be implanted into injured patients to help re-grow cartilage in areas such as the joints. The 3D tissue printer, featured in a study published in the journal Biofabrication by the Institute of Physics, is a mix of a traditional…

  • Advanced RFID Scrabble System to be unveiled at Prague Mind Sports Festival

    Prague Mind Sports Festival will take place from 1 December – 4 December, 2012. Hundreds of players from across the globe will compete for large prize pools in most popular mind sports! Mind sports always aims at giving the best out of technology! Now a new Advanced RFID Scrabble system…

  • 2012 Mind Sports Festival to be held at Prague

    Mind Sports International Ltd brings the world’s most popular mind sports together, giving leading brands and players across the globe the opportunity to take part in the very best mind sports events and experiences.Mind Sports International strives to bring the excitement of mind sports into homes worldwide -utilizing the latest digital…

  • Android’s Personal Assistant Iris Gets Integrated With Self-discovery app Friday

    Android Iris has been google’s Answer To Apple’s Siri. Iris is a personal assistant application for Android. Iris supports Call, Text, Contact Lookup, and Web Search actions including playing videos, looking for: lyrics, movies reviews, recipes, news, weather, places and others. It was developed  Dexetra Software Solutions Private Limited. Friday captures your entire life through your…

  • Disney’s Humanoid Robot learns to Play, Catch, Juggle and emote

    Have you ever played with a cyborg? Well you can! The Disney Research team has invented a humanoid animatron that plays a life-like game of catch, to initiate direct interaction theme park guests and robots. An external camera system (ASUS Xtion PRO LIVE)  is used to locate balls and a Kalman…

  • DreamWorks makes OpenVDB – ‘Rise of the Guardians’ special effects tool open source

    DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc.  is an American animation studio based in Glendale, California that creates animated feature films, television programs, and online virtual worlds. They have released a total of twenty-five feature films, including the franchises of Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda, and How to Train Your Dragon. On wednesday, DreamWorks released its latest animated feature with the holiday-themed Rise…

  • Spaceship-Like Apple headquaters meets Delays

    Apple has said that the construction of the new spaceship-like headquarters with a circular design in Cupertino, California, won’t be completed until mid-2016 as the company revises its plans. In a statement before the Cupertino City Council last year, Jobs said that the building,  would be “a bit like a spaceship landed,” and would not…