Nine mechanical engineering majors from Yale developed a prototype model for a spokeless bike last semester. As you’ll notice in the photo, only the back wheel lacks its spokes. This is because the group had limited time and money. The students said, seeing the back wheel was a success, they could easily install a spokeless [...]
Microsoft unveiled Windows Mobile 7 at the 2010 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain on Monday. The new Windows Mobile 7 has several new features — including Zune and Xbox Live integration, a dedicated Bing search button, and a new “Hubs” concept for organizing and using mobile content and services. Microsoft will be calling the [...]
Apple just announced their 10 billion song downloads contest on iTunes — they’re giving away a $10,000 iTunes gift card to whoever downloads the 10 billionth song on iTunes. If you visit the contest page, you’ll notice the countdown is moving preeetty quickly. Currently, the countdown is nearing 9.9 billion, so if you want to [...]
Lenovo, Thursday, announced a few new computers — including the C315 desktop. Lenovo’s C315 packs a 20-inch multitouch display, along with an unspecified AMD Athlon dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon graphics (of some sort), and of course plenty of pre-loaded apps to take advantage of that big multitouch screen. The C315 also [...]
Puma just launched a teaser site for their solar powered sports-centric phone that will be announced next week. Its been known that Puma has been making plans for a branded phone with Sagem since October, but nothing about the phone has really been known until now. If you pull up the page source from Puma’s [...]
Researchers at the University of Michigan developed the smallest solar sensor ever created–the dimensions are 2.5 x 3.5 x 1 millimeters. The sensor can run nearly perpetually if periodically exposed to reasonable lighting conditions as its only limiting factor is battery wear-out. The sensor’s solar cells, processor, and battery are all compacted into a tiny [...]
Tuesday, Google launched their latest web service, Google Buzz. Google Buzz is Google’s approach to the social media stream. Google played it smart by simply implementing Google Buzz into Gmail–instead of building up a new product completely from scratch.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google plans to challenge social networks such as Facebook and Twitter as soon as this week. Apparently, Gmail’s coming update will feature a social stream on its home page, displaying friends’ media and status updates. “The stream will also eventually include content that a user’s connections share through YouTube [...]
Search Engine Land claims to have received a tip from a New York retailer called Oh Nuts, saying that Google visited their store and took several photos for a new Google Maps product called “Google Store Views.” Apparently, Google took photos of the store every 6 feet, in all directions. They also took pictures of [...]
Ever wonder when Sonic went from addicting 2D side scrolling to werehog? Anyone who grew up on ’90s gaming will remember all the fun they had while playing Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on the Sega Genesis. If you’re one of these people, you’ll be pleased to hear that Sonic the Hedgehog 4 will be arriving [...]
A German company called Nanopool just invented a new technology that may change our everyday living. Its flexible, its breathable, its 500 times thinner than a millimeter, its liquid glass. When sprayed over an object, liquid glass resists bacteria, dirt, water, UV rays, you name it.
Boeing, Wednesday, unveiled a real photo of the 787 dreamliner’s interior for the first time. Shown above is the picture, taken on board the third test flight 787, known as the ZA003. The interior of ZA003 includes work stations for engineers, flight-test equipment and racks of instruments that monitor the aircraft and systems during tests. [...]
The ChiliBed, made by Chili Technology is made to give you the perfect night’s sleep by giving you the ability to choose how warm or cool your mattress is. If you dig inside the ChiliBed, you will find water which is either heated or cooled while it passes through coils, generating a massive temperature flux [...]
Verizon users – be excited. Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced today that MOTOBLUR will be coming to Verizon this March on the Motorola Devour. The Motorola Devour will be powered by Android. The Devour has got some really great features, including: Touch-sensitive navigation pad 3.1” capacitive touch screen Pre-loaded applications such as Gmail, Google Talk, [...]
Its been rumored since the beginning of the year, and now its official. WordPress has just launched the first version of its Android app. WordPress for Android is capable of managing both WordPress.com blogs and self-hosted WordPress.org blogs. With the new app, you can add or edit posts, comments, and even pages on multiple WordPress [...]
