Even the Tiniest Broken Part Can End an F1 Race Before It Begins
To finish first, the old saying goes, one must first finish.
Technology
Rugged mini-PC runs Android on Via’s Cortex-A9 SoC
Via debuted a rugged fanless low-power Android mini-PC based on Via’s dual-core Cortex-A9 Elite E1000 SoC, and offering mini-PCIe, mSATA, HDMI, and GbE I/O.
Solar-cell efficiency improved with new polymer devices
New light has been shed on solar power generation using devices made with polymers, thanks to a collaboration between scientists in the University of Chicago's chemistry department, the Institute for Molecular Engineering, and Argonne National Laboratory.
Miss Georgia's custom heels flaunt 3D-printed flair
3D-printed shoes have, until now, mostly been the stuff of art exhibits and fashion shows presaging a world in which we all look like we're wearing alien life forms.
On Saturday, shoes molded by 3D printing got a far wider showing, parading along New Jersey's Atlantic City boardwalk on the feet of Miss Georgia, Maggie Bridges.
Bitcoin’s Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body To See The Future
Some bitcoin enthusiasts have used their cryptocurrency to travel around the world. Others have spent it on a trip to space. But the very earliest user of bitcoin (after its inventor Satoshi Nakamoto himself) has now spent his crypto coins on the most ambitious mission yet: to visit the future.
A brief history of USB, what it replaced, and what has failed to replace it
Like all technology, USB has evolved over time. Despite being a “Universal” Serial Bus, in its 18-or-so years on the market it has spawned multiple versions with different connection speeds and many, many types of cables.
Facial recognition tech leads feds to fugitive after 14 years
In 2000, after being accused of child sex abuse and kidnapping in New Mexico, Neil Stammer skipped town and went underground. Fourteen years later he was arrested in Nepal.
How did the authorities catch this fugitive? Facial recognition technology.
High tech sleep sensor hits $1 million mark on Kickstarter
A sleep monitoring device has passed the $1.3 million mark on Kickstarter in its first week, with the final forecast expected to be around $4 million when the project ends in 22 days time.
The sleek-looking device called Sense, which was launched by James Proud last week, only had an original Kickstarter goal of raising $100,000 within 30 days, but great word of mouth from many tech sites has already produced a backing of over ten times that figure.
A Dongle That Lets You Squeeze More Connections From Hotel Wi-Fi
You’ve forked over more than $150 for a decent, bed bug- and corpse-free hotel room. You plop down on the plush duvet and open up your laptop to get online. Of course, you’ve got to pay for it! But not only do you have to pay for Wi-Fi—it only grants access to one device. What gives?
In a day and age when the average household has four mobile devices, it feels like a slap in the face. But there’s actually a way to get around this problem (and it’s probably cheaper than that Wi-Fi access costs to begin with).
Bristol University discovers a faster high-quality video wireless transmission technology
The University of Bristol has researched ways to transmit high quality video over wireless signals to handle the growing amount of mobile video traffic attributable to the rise of smartphone apps.
Published in the journal IEEE Transactions for Mobile Computing, the research was led by professor Andrew Nix and Dr Victoria Sgardoni from the University of Bristol's Communication Systems and Networks group.
