Amazon offers £20 Prime discount for its 20th birthday
Not
content with holding traditional retail sales events, Amazon's decided
to make up one of its own. "Prime Day," as it's known, starts on July
15th and will let the company celebrate 20 years of selling things on
internet by selling you more things... Read More ...
Amazon's 'Prime Day' sale will have 'more deals than Black Friday'
Amazon's
turning 20 on July 15th and will celebrate the occasion by giving you
another reason to sign up for Prime. The company is launching Prime Day,
a "global shopping event" that promises to have "more deals than Black
Friday." Unfortunately, you... Read More ...
LG's new touchscreens will make your next laptop thinner and lighter
LG's
display subsidiary is promising drastically thinner, lighter
touchscreens that will be ready for notebooks later this year. With full
HD (1080p) resolution, the Advanced In-Cell Touch (AIT) screens
substitute a touch panel layer for a touch sens... Read More ...
Artists paint light using 3D printers and twisted video walls
Who
said that you had to paint light by waving an arm around? Certainly not
Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi and Daniel Canogar, both of whom have created art
using some decidedly unusual tech. Kalsi's project generates floating
color portraits thanks to a modif... Read More ...
Stretchable nanowire mesh heats your sore muscles
Don't
like having to apply clunky heating pads every time you want to to deal
with chronic muscle pain in your arms and legs? Eventually, you might
not have to -- that therapeutic care could always be there. Korean
researchers have developed a stretc... Read More ...
The untold story of a failed Nintendo game six years in the making
Nintendo
has had a number of high-profile flops (Virtual Boy, anyone?). However,
one of its biggest failures may have been one you heard almost nothing
about -- at least, until now. Unseen64 has published a documentary
detailing the largely unknown s... Read More ...
3D-printed 'dough' helps fix your fractured bones
One
day, you might not have to spend ages waiting for broken bones to heal.
Researchers have developed a 3D-printed, dough-like biomaterial that
could fill large bone fractures while aiding the recovery process. The
porous chemical blend can withstan... Read More ...
Lego is developing eco-friendly plastic bricks
Lego's
iconic plastic bricks aren't very kind to the planet since they're made
from oil-based ABS plastic, but the toy maker is planning to mend its
ways. It's paying $150 million to build a sustainable materials center
that will develop oil-free pla... Read More ...
NASA's Pluto probe will spend 'days' recovering from a glitch
Don't
expect to hear more from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft for a while.
The Pluto observer recently encountered a glitch that made it lose
contact for an hour and a half. That doesn't sound like much of a
problem, but it was enough to kick the pro... Read More ...
'Mega Man' creator wants your help making a game-and-movie combo
Mighty
No. 9 might not even be out the door, but Mega Man creator Keiji
Inafune is already looking for your help with a new project -- and this
one is considerably more ambitious. His studio has launched crowdfunding
for Red Ash, a project that combi... Read More ...
Military AI interface helps you make sense of thousands of photos
It's
easy to find computer vision technology that detect objects in photos,
but it's still tough to sift through photos... and that's a big
challenge for the military, where finding the right picture could mean
taking out a target or spotting a terro... Read More ...
Vital Russian cargo ship reaches the International Space Station
After
two failed attempts in a row, the International Space Station is once
again getting fresh supplies. Russia's Progress 60 cargo spacecraft has
successfully docked, bringing with it important batches of equipment,
food and fuel. While the station... Read More ...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: next-gen EVs and bricklaying robots
Each
week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green
developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.Now that the first wave of electric vehicles has established a strong foothold in the market, automakers ...
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Yamaha's motorcycle design team made this 360-degree drum kit sphere
Like
some kind of corporate Freaky Friday, Yahama tasked its motorcycle
design team with making some instrument concepts -- and asked the
opposite of its instrument design team. With no constraints like (well)
commercial viability, designers were abl... Read More ...
Army exoskeleton prototype helps soldiers learn to shoot
Foot
soldiers thrive on their shooting skills, but learning expert
marksmanship can take a long, long time. US Army researchers could soon
have a robotic shortcut to improving those skills, however. They're
working on MAXFAS, an arm exoskeleton that ... Read More ...
Squid skin could help make color-changing gadgets
Not
happy with the color of your clothes and devices? Eventually, you might
get to change those hues on a whim. UC Santa Barbara researchers have
discovered that the color-changing California market squid (aka
opalescent inshore squid) manages its op... Read More ...
New Zealand makes cyberbullying a crime
New
Zealand has passed a law that criminalizes one of the least desirable
facets of the internet: cyberbullying. The legislation effectively
prohibits sending messages to people that are racist, sexist, critical
of their religion, sexuality or disabi... Read More ...
Bitcoin miners create invalid currency after a botched upgrade
Digital
currencies are only as reliable as their software, and some Bitcoin
users are learning this the hard way. Thanks to a "problem" with an
upgrade that applies a new rule, some Bitcoin mining pools (namely,
those that don't usually wait to valid... Read More ...
China nails Samsung and Oppo over smartphone bloatware
A
minor Chinese consumer protection group has filed lawsuits against
Samsung and Oppo to contest the pair's use of bloatware on their
smartphones. The Shanghai Consumer Council believes that the two
companies install far too many additional apps on t... Read More ...
BMW has a hydrogen-powered 5 Series
Battery-powered
EVs are in the spotlight right now, but that doesn't mean car
manufacturers aren't looking at alternative fuel sources. At its
"Innovation Day" in France, BMW unveiled a prototype 5 Series GT that
uses a hydrogen fuel cell to power it... Read More ...
Apple Pay reportedly reaches the UK on July 14th
Irked
that Apple Pay is only officially slated to reach the UK sometime in
July? Don't worry -- you might not have to wait all month to see it.
Multiple retailer leaks at 9to5Mac point to Apple launching its iPhone
tap-to-pay service in Old Blighty o... Read More ...
Uber narrowly evades a ban in Canada's largest city
Uber
might be facing its worst nightmare in Europe, but it just got a big
break in Canada. A Toronto judge has tossed out the city's attempt to
ban Uber (and by extension, other ridesharing services) on the grounds
that it's operating without a taxi ... Read More ...
'Shenmue 3' Kickstarter will offer PS4 copies on disc
It's
safe to say people are excited about Shenmue 3: Just 48 hours after
legendary developer Yu Suzuki launched a crowdfunding campaign, the game
smashed its $2 million fundraising goal, pulling in more than $4
million, and setting a couple Kickstart... Read More ...
iTunes 12.2: New version a missed opportunity for Apple Music
Apple
released a new version 12.2 of iTunes for OS X and Windows this week as
part of the launch of its Apple Music service. The initial reactions
from users are anything but positive. But aside from obvious bugs,
there's a bigger problem: iTunes nee... Read More ...
More ingenious hacks for problems you didn't know you had
It's
the Fourth of July and while that light show in the sky honors US
independence, why not shine a little light on our DIY perseverance? To
help celebrate this holiday, we've put together a collection of (even
more) ingenious hacks that incorporate... Read More ...
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