From its humble beginning as a game show contestant, to advising doctors in various medical fields, IBM’s advanced speech analyzing and data-crunching AI system Watson is the perfect example of how technology developed to tackle narrow and specific tasks can provide technological solutions that have genuine impact in real world scenarios. So,…
For quite some time now, making smaller and fold-able bikes have been the goals of people who want to encourage the “go green” motto. However portable bikes are made, they couldn’t be reduced to a size smaller than a suitcase and weight lesser than 5 kilograms. Moreover, it is indeed…
Flipkart was a venture of more than expected success. Following up with this success came many other e-commerce websites. Today it’s hardly a need for you to step out for shopping. From clothes to utensils, e-commerce has converged the experience of shopping to our door steps. Not just that there…
The driving force behind innovation in technology is the need to make things simpler. Whether it’s instant messaging, that has made communication between two people in different parts of the world easy and instantaneous, or it’s e-commerce which has revolutionized the way people shop by making it possible for everybody…
With traditional fitness activity tracking devices being dime-a-dozen, it seems like the technology in the fitness sector is approaching a kind of plateau. Slap a band on your wrist or around your upper arm, and these fitness assistants will track your movement, calories burnt, steps climbed and other fairly obvious…
With the selfie craze hitting new heights in the last year, it is quite evident that it has become something of a staple in our lives – almost every moment of our lives can be captured and shared within an instant. And while smartphone manufacturers are responding to this by…
The phrase ‘playing with fire’ just got a new twist and the product responsible for it is the new Pyro Fireshooter – a wearable device which allows you to shoot fireballs, designed by professional magician Adam Wilber. So if you practice magic and want to draw those audible gasps of…
Sometimes, too much information can be a bad thing and specially on the internet, where you’re bombarded with information left, right and center. So in order to save you the trouble of sifting through a thousand pieces of news and happenings from this week, we plunged into the bottomless ocean…
Desktops were an ideal part of every office table and almost every household for more than a decade. From a huge box to a slim sleek look, desktop monitors had gone through a complete makeover during this time. They became a part of us and as a 90`s kid, I…
In recent years, technology has advanced in leaps and bounds. Our phones have evolved into smart devices that have changed the way we socialize, shop and pay bills. The way we live in our homes is changing too and faster than you think. Already there is a wide selection of…
No matter what you thought of Christopher Nolan’s epic space adventure Interstellar – whether you found it to be awesome or just another over-hyped sci-fi flick – nobody can deny that it got people talking. That too about space and physics. Suddenly, everybody is participating in exciting discussions and speculating…
With automation as goal for all possible human tasks, a lot of people are going unemployed. Yet more people employ themselves in finding these intelligent machines. In the retailing industry, automation has already been established in billing, scanning and store mapping sections. There are digital helpers to find items that…
It is no secret that the smartphone market is a jungle. Thousands of companies compete for the affections of the public in this hostile world in order to make their products successful. So, given that there are so many phones out there and only a some of them will be…
As the year 2014 draws to a close, we are about to be suffocated under a deluge of ‘Best-of 2014’ lists, nostalgic recaps of the great hits and misses of the year and boring awards that don’t mean a thing. We get it; the year is done! Let’s move one,…
The new Flagship from HTC will be a Stunner. That is what HTC seems to expect. Well, that is what all manufacturers seem to expect from their phones. They want to have the highest share in the market and want to take a whole portion of the bread for themselves….
Ever wondered where all the laptops, desktops, tablets and smartphones end up once you’ve discarded them? E-waste as it is formally known, mostly gets dumped in landfills. On the way, it is handled by cheap laborers who do not possess the skills or the equipment that would assist them in…
How would you feel if you are served a decorated coffee every morning right at home? I am not the President of any country, who would do that for me every morning? It is time consuming, error laden and most of all a task, a huge task. It is easy to…
It is difficult, indeed impossible, for us normal folks to imagine what goes on in the heads and lives of the rich and famous. But Tonino Lamborghini, son of the automobile moghul, Ferruccio Lamborghini, probably has a better idea than us. Or else why would he release a $6,000 Android…
You love it, I love it, we all love it. You take it in the morning, then take it in the evening, in fact, it can be taken anytime during the day. The feel of it is heavenly and rejuvenates one’s body. Scratching your head? Thinking what it can be?…