LittleViking
You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide
I’m a cognitive science geek, I love robots. I know they’re capable of wonderful, amazing, mind-blowing things…but for some reason I wasn’t expecting this: a robot has been developed that can hear your frightened breathing through walls. It doesn’t even need to stand right next to the wall to...
The Switch From Console to PC
I admit it… until fairly recently I wasn’t all that into PC gaming. It wasn’t that I inherently disliked PC games, it’s just that I hadn’t been exposed to very many. Being at boarding school meant that I had no access to a proper computer. My laptop’s sole purpose...
Monsanto: Destroying Our Food Supplies And Our Health
The latest of a slew of problems Monsanto has caused is this: Monsanto planted genetically modified sugar beets without filling out all the necessary paperwork about these beets’ environmental impact. The USDA is working on a statement, but that statement won’t be ready until 2012. Monsanto is supposed to...
Treyarch Thinks “Negative Gamers” Are Holding Back the Industry
Uhhhh…seriously? Treyarch seems to have their panties in a bunch because they’ve been getting flamed a lot over Call of Duty: Black Ops. What they said was that, as the gaming community has grown, it has developed a more negative energy. There are a greater number of people who...
Open-Source Bluetooth Network Hacking Device
Michael Ossman has designed Ubertooth One, which is an inexpensive and open-source Bluetooth network sniffer. While in “monitoring mode”, it allows you to gather data meant for other Bluetooth devices. This little device is a USB plug with a ARM Cortex-M3 processor-based board and an antenna, and it’s compatible...
Etch-A-Sketch Computer
Somebody decided to turn his computer into a giant etch-a-sketch…I imagine I’d tire of the controls fairly quickly, but it is impressive how these guys made the etch-a-sketch nobs.
Molybdenite Could Be the Future of Electronics
Molybdenite is a mineral most of you may not have heard of (I admit I had never heard of it before), and many researchers think it has the potential to lead us into the next generation of electronics. You see, this mineral can be sliced much, much thinner than...
Android Now the World’s Biggest Smartphone OS
Android has surpassed Nokia’s Symbian platform to become the most widely used smartphone OS in the world. Android’s market share is now at 33%, compared to 31% for Symbian and 16% for Apple. Android’s distribution has increased sevenfold this year to 33 million phones. Android is especially popular in...
