Vauxhall Motors and The King’s Cross Filling Station (KXFS) have commissioned, set designer and illustrator Gary Card, to create an Electric Christmas tree that will light up Regents Canal as part of the Vauxhall Ampera Season. Gary Card’s sets and installations have appeared in the windows of Dover Street Market…
BMW is launching yet another variation of its i eco-car theme this week at the Los Angeles auto show. The i3 Concept Coupe stands tall on 20-inch wheels. But the tires are skinny: 155/60x20s up front and 175/55x20s in the rear. It will most likely be offered not only as…
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…
Poseidon Luxury resorts meant for holiday complex is set to be located 40ft under the sea in a lagoon off the shore of a private island in Fiji.The project is the brainchild of L. Bruce Jones, CEO of US Submarines. The resort will be accessible via an elevator from the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
How many times have you dropped the coffee mug on your keyboard? Never mind! Here is the new washable keyboard, that loves to take bath every time you dirty it. Even after many wash, the keyboard has been designed to look and function like new . Logitech Washable Keyboard K310,…
Whats the popular video on YouTube? Justin Bieber’s “Baby” ? No! Its PSY’s “Gangnam Style”! Yes,the 4:13 clip from the South Korean rapper has earned approximately 805,055,375 views since it was posted on July 15, 2012 and keeps counting! We have to note that its the most liked too (5367126 and counting )!…
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…
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…
A security hole has been discovered in Microsoft’s product activation process that allows pirates to get a free legitimate activation of Windows 8 using the current Windows Media Center upgrade promotion. A Key Management System(KMS) activation allows your unlicensed copy of Windows to be fully usable for 180 days which…
It’s the age of high-definition and why not we see it in the scanner technology? Researchers at the Japan’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory has given the answer with BFS-Auto! BFS-Auto uses high speed automated page flipping, real-time 3D page recognition and up to 400 pixels per inch high-definition resolution to accurately scan…
Well, do you know that the world’s longest word consists of 189,819 letters? Okay, now that you know the numbers, how long do you think it will take for a person to spell the word? The answer is three-and-a-half hours! This word is the chemical name for titin (aka connectin) – a…
Sky City or Sky City One, is a proposed super-tall skyscraper approved for construction in the city of Changsha, Hunan in south-central China. The Chinese construction company Broad Sustainable Building(BSB) is undertaking this project. Sky City would be likely to be the tallest building in the world – with 220 floors and…
Twitter is emerging as powerful social media. In six years, Twitter has evolved from social networking phenomenon to an online classroom of sorts for students, according to a new Michigan State University study. “Tweeting can be thought of as a new literary practice,” Christine Greenhow, an assistant professor of education at…
Albert Einstein, born on 14 March 1879, a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity, effecting a revolution in physics is often regarded as the father of modern physics and the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Upon his death in 18 April 1955, at the…
Lytro, Inc. is a light field camera start-up company founded in 2006 by Ren Ng, a light-field photography researcher at the Stanford University. Lytro produces its own cameras rather than licensing its technology with an established manufacturer. Rather than just capturing one plane of light, Lytro camera captures the entire light field around a picture, all in one shot taken on…