Sunday, January 13, 2013

University MacBooks install vending machines, another sign of the times

Vending machines are no longer what they were, despite the 'crisis' have lately proliferated world such machines that offer gold and diamonds , even provides you some beers but not in the classic style, but the style ' rugby '. The meeting is the last one you see in the image below, is installed at Drexel University and does not give you donuts or juice, but MacBooks. The machine itself will not sell laptops, but you rent them for hours in case...

Invented the first rifle that works with Linux, weapons 'intelligent' take a step forward

  Someone once said that the "military intelligence" was a contradiction in terms, but what is undeniable is that the current weapons is becoming increasingly clever at times thanks to (or because of) new technologies. The rifle you see something below is manufactured by TrackingPoint and might seem a sniper rifle ordinary, but actually carrying a computerized system that ensures that des always on target. It works with the Linux operating...

Urinal for children with iPad included, for future Bill Gates

I can personally say that teaching a child to handle a computer goes through before letting a monitor with a mouse and keyboard in hand, leave it alone for an hour and when you come back you know handle it better. This innate tendency in smaller seems to have a great future in commercial because they have even invented the first potty (that I know) that comes with iPad included.The funny thing is that the pot is designed for those children who...

The asteroid Apophis is larger than previously thought, also more dangerous

One of the most famous asteroid Apophis is now, surely you read about the news of all kinds, basically because it is known that the space object is a real threat to life on our planet. These days Apophis is getting closer to Earth and this has led some astronomers to better investigate. The result: they have discovered that it is much larger than thought, has almost twice the mass of what is thought. Therefore, its danger potential increases.Perhaps...

Slimming machine invented infallible: aspiring food directly from your stomach

One of the inventions that are pursued over many years is one that allows you to lose weight at will but not in any way, obviously the goal is to get it without having to sweat doing physical exercise and, of course, not to eat anything that you like. More than anything not to alter the consumer society in which we live. This invention could be the ideal candidate in this regard it not because it is a way to say 'extreme' to get it, but it seems...

Saturday, January 12, 2013

This screen mimics the sun 60,000 LEDs

This is not something, but he already has a couple of years, but we still have a lot of attention. We are talking about one of the creations of designer Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Flatsun is a set of LEDs 60,000 and forming a screen that mimic the shape and color of the sun. It sounds difficult to do, but the truth is that these small LEDs does a great job of imitating the star of the solar system. Lozano-Hemmer had to use math to create the...

The new iPhone already has price

A couple of days ago I commented that Apple was working on an iPhone with lowest price than standard models. It seems that now the device already exists, and it is, in fact, quite cheap to be the younger brother of the famous smartphone on the block. Bloomberg The site says this low-end iPhone will be available for no more than $ 150, and also in some market price will be even lower, even to $ 100. The report also says that Apple site would...

Displair fog presents its multitouch screen

How far are we from achieving the advanced interfaces that can be seen in the movie Minority Report? Well, we are not very far indeed. The mist screens are not new, but Displair surprised us all two years ago when he unveiled a prototype fog screen with multitouch interface. But now the company has officially unveiled this technology and who have attended the 2013 CES will prove rotten. This system, which is a little simpler than it appears,...