It is no secret that Google has been working on augmented reality (AR) applications for some time now. In fact, back in December Google hinted that the secretive Google X Labs team was working on a project to develop a wearable AR device. Continue reading
In February of 2011 Corning, the American glass manufacturer founded in 1851, released a video called “A Day Made of Glass” (below). The video portrays a not-too-distant future where most of the surfaces with which we interact are interactive, integrated, and intelligent. Continue reading
April Fools’ Day has been celebrated with zeal on the Internet since, well … since there was an Internet. This year’s day is no different and if you’re a geek then there are oodles of ways to “celebrate” at the expense of your friends, family, and co-workers. Continue reading
You don’t have to be a NASA fan, an Angry Birds fan, or even a Don Pettit fan to truly appreciate how terrific the video above is in the grand scheme of things. There’s nothing like zero gravity to help budding minds appreciate the basics of physics – which is clearly on Don’s mind – in a way that’s probably a bit more enthralling than the classroom. Continue reading
I like how people say Facebook is eating Google's lunch. The former generates $4.39 per user compared to Google's more than $30. Dig in.
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Marshall Stanton (@marshallstanton) March 27, 2012
Microsoft is getting into the aftermarket car business. No, not really but engineers from the Redmond-based software giant did recently team up with West Coast Customs to customize a 2012 Ford Mustang chassis complimented with a replica 1967 fastback body into what could be arguably called the coolest Microsoft “device” on the planet today. Continue reading
Who knew James Cameron was obsessed with the darkest depths of the Earth’s oceans? Actually it shouldn’t be all that much of a surprise given the fact that he was behind some of the most well-loved major motion pictures about the bodies of water that make this the blue planet including The Abyss (1989), Titanic (1997), and Sanctum (2011). Continue reading
By day the folks at Chaotic Moon Studios are hard at work (and by “hard at work” I mean partying 24×7) creating some of the most innovative and successful mobile applications. However, beyond this banal facade and “[d]eep beneath the earth’s surface in a fortified zombie-proof bunker lies Chaotic Moon Labs, the Research and Development division of Chaotic Moon Studios.” Continue reading
Rod Serling, the narrator for The Twilight Zone, once described science fiction in the following terms: ”Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.” The term “sci-fi” itself was coined by famed American science fiction movie memorabilia collector Forrest Ackerman in 1954 but the genre itself has been around for nearly two thousand years. Continue reading
The idea of a “space elevator” – a structure that would allow material and/or people to move from Earth’s surface into space (and back) without the use of rockets – dates back to the late 1800s when Konstantin Tsiolkovsky proposed a free-standing structure that would stretch from the surface of the Earth to a geostationary orbit 22,236 miles (35,786 km) up. Over the past century a number of different concepts (e.g., using a counterweight in space to support the structure) and technological innovations (e.g., carbon nanotubes) have come along that have put this ambitious idea more within reach. Continue reading
