Archive for August, 2014


Did you know that phones with optical zoom cameras are nothing new? Here's one from 2004

You’ve seen the Samsung Galaxy K Zoom, now, haven’t you? Of course you have – a phone as unusual as this can’t go unnoticed. It is Samsung’s ultimate cameraphone, packing all the bells and whistles one would expect out of a standalone camera, not a smartphone. Continue reading

The internet censorship map at a glance

If you’re reading this, you probably enjoy open internet access as a matter of course. However, other countries aren’t quite so liberal. How do you know where you’re truly free? IVPN’s new interactive censorship map might just answer that question for you. The site lets you click on a given country to quickly learn about its tendencies to block free speech online, attack critics and shred anonymity. Continue reading

Toyota announced that they are going to sell the Land Cruiser 70 from their popular rugged four-wheel drive vehicle line, Land Cruiser. It will be available in Japan for a limited time until June 30, 2015. Continue reading

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The distance between Shanghai and San Francisco is around 6,135 miles (9,873 km), and a team of scientists aims to make that trip possible in 100 minutes. Researchers at Harbin Institute of Technology’s Complex Flow and Heat Transfer Lab have developed new tech that allows submarines to traveling a crazy-high speeds beneath the water. Continue reading

Most of us have our smartphones with us everywhere, including on the couch. The fact that your smartphone is always nearby makes the device a convenient item to be turned into a universal remote control for your TV. A new product called AnyMote is designed to turn your Android smartphone or other devices into a next generation universal remote. Continue reading

Inspired by future technologies we wanted to create a completely different, original timepiece. Ritot is the first projection watch. Continue reading

Heads-up display, rearview camera, & GPS navigation. Continue reading

NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft captured this view of the giant planet Neptune and its large moon Triton on July 10, 2014, from a distance of about 2.45 billion miles (3.96 billion kilometers) - more than 26 times the distance between the Earth and sun. The 967-millisecond exposure was taken with the New Horizons telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI).

NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has traversed the orbit of Neptune. This is its last major crossing en route to becoming the first probe to make a close encounter with distant Pluto on July 14, 2015. Continue reading

If you purchased an iPhone 5 between September 2012 and January 2013, check Apple’s site for more details. Continue reading

Using Google means an easier online life – from email and online storage to news and digital maps. But the search giant can also take over your TV with the Google Chromecast $34.99 at Amazon, a streaming dongle that has beat out a similar offering from Roku to become Amazon’s best-selling electronic device. Continue reading