You might think that encrypted data on your laptop is safe from hackers, but you’d be wrong. Imagine this scenario: you’re at a café working on your next blockbusting sci-fi novel. You close the lid for a moment to pay the bill and when you return, the laptop has vanished. Oh well, [...]
Watch this amazing video of Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau (nicknamed Rollerman) and his Buggy-Rollin suit. As he hurtles at incredible speed down luge runs and the streets of France, I can’t help thinking that Blondeau is an anime character come to life.
Toyota’s latest venture in robotics is an android capable of playing the violin. In the video below, we see this robot playing a few bars from Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance. So, it has a long way to go before matching Yehudi Menuhin, but it’s still a remarkable feat for a “baby” robot.
The robot [...]
Ask yourself this question: what exactly does a decibel measure? If you’re thinking “loudness of sound”, then you’re on the right track, but there’s more to it.
Any quantity can be measured on a decibel scale, but decibels are most useful when they describe an underlying quantity that varies over a vast range. Let’s [...]
Imagine a future where you control computer games using only the power of your mind.
That future is not so far off, thanks to the efforts of Emotiv Systems and NeuroSky, two companies taking the medical technology of EEG and transforming it into a platform for mind-controlled gaming. However, some experts are wary that this [...]