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Enlarge Firefox For Living Room Viewing...

Enlarge Firefox For Living Room Viewing

| April 13, 2010 | 487 Views |

Set-top boxes, media centers and TV’s with built-in Internet capabilities are bringing the worldwide web to comfort of your living room. And although many of these devices offer great GUI solutions and remote controls to make surfing from your sofa easier, viewing standard web pages remain difficult to see from a distance. Luckily there are a couple of tweaks you can employ to...

ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series GPU...

ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series GPU

| April 10, 2010 | 418 Views |

The new line of ATI Radeon HD graphics cards is here, and boy do they pack some punch. Featuring some of the most “technologically advanced and feature rich GPUs AMD has ever created,” the ATI Radeon 5000 graphics series unlocks a world of crisp graphics for your movies and games. From the flagship ATI Radeon HD 5970 which scored the highest benchmark (as of Oct, 2009) in excess of...

US Navy Drone Captures Drug Smugglers...

US Navy Drone Captures Drug Smugglers

| April 7, 2010 | 433 Views |

Drones are taking over aviation warfare and defense, and it’s not surprising, these unmanned aerial vehicles are proving so effective that they just can’t help doing the job, even during training. On the 3rd of April, whilst on a routine test flight a U.S. Navy Fire Scout spotted a go-fast boat suspected of carrying narcotics. Maintain a stealthy tail for three hours; the drone...

Wireless Touch Free Interface...

Wireless Touch Free Interface

| April 4, 2010 | 287 Views |

The delightful Apple iPad may be to TV and books what video was to the radio star – a killer. But there’s one problem that seems to be overlooked, my books and TV don’t have dirty smudges and smear marks all over them; my touchscreen devices do. So what would the solution be if you’re an augmented reality geek, a Minority report fan, and a MIT student? You build a touch-free...

Digital Easter Eggs Hidden Your DVDs...

Digital Easter Eggs Hidden Your DVDs

| April 2, 2010 | 183 Views |

Easter eggs come in many shapes and sizes, as well as in many form factors. So if you’ve had enough of the traditional chocolate Easter eggs this weekend, perhaps it’s time to dig through your DVD collection and treat yourself to some digital Easter eggs that are hidden away on disks you may already own. A digital Easter egg is simply a little treat, or secret feature, that has...

PlayStation Move Motion Controller...

PlayStation Move Motion Controller

| March 29, 2010 | 218 Views |

Sony’s answer to the motion control gaming trend is upon us. The company first unveiled the device at last year’s Game Developers Conference. Back it didn’t have a name, but now following its official launch at this year’s GDC held last month, not only do we have a name but an estimated release date too. The aptly name PlayStation Move will be available this fall, and will ship...

BrainPort Gives Sight To Blind Soldier...

BrainPort Gives Sight To Blind Soldier

| March 26, 2010 | 371 Views |

A British soldier who lost his sight to a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq, 2007, has become the first to use a technology that allows him to see using his tongue. Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg, 24, from Walton, Merseyside, can now read words, make out shapes and walk unaided thanks to the new device. BrainPort The sight-giving gadget, known as BrainPort, consists of two...

Less Lethal LVVWS Rifle...

Less Lethal LVVWS Rifle

| March 23, 2010 | 780 Views |

A popular toy manufacturer has developed a new rifle that can deliver both lethal and non-lethal rounds. Developed by Lund Technologies (yes that’s right folks, the same company that brought to our stores the likes of Tickle Me Elmo and Honey My Baby Pony), the Lund Variable Velocity Weapons System or LVVWS, is an all-in-one weapon, meaning it can be lethal when used at high velocity...

F-35 Lighting First Vertical Landing...

F-35 Lighting First Vertical Landing

| March 21, 2010 | 618 Views | 1 Comment

Earlier this month, the greatly-hyped and highly anticipated F-35 Lighting stealth fighter made its first vertical landing. During tests at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, 2nd March, the F-35 successfully descended vertically from a 150 ft hover to touch down on the tarmac with exceptional aviation grace. F-35 Lightning First Vertical Landing With overrun costs and numerous...

Carbon Nanotubes Store Data Forever...

Carbon Nanotubes Store Data Forever

| March 19, 2010 | 374 Views |

Carbon nanotubes have shown the potential to help further the development in a wide range of technologies. Boasting structural, thermal and electrical properties like no other material on earth, carbon nanotubes could theoretically be used for building super strong architectural structures, vehicles, armor, clothing, and lighting speed electronics. Carbon nanotubes could also become...

New Littoral Combat Ships Reach Freeway ...

New Littoral Combat Ships Reach Freeway Speeds

| March 16, 2010 | 839 Views |

Back in 2003-2004, the Navy awarded several development contracts for a new littoral (close to shore) combat ship (LCS). In 2008, two ships were delivered, and they’ve gone head-to-head ever since. The pair of new ships, the USS Independence and the USS Freedom, both break speed limitations that typically plague ships of a similar size. USS Independence LCS The Independence, built...

DARPA To Harness Power Of Lightning...

DARPA To Harness Power Of Lightning

| March 13, 2010 | 484 Views |

Hoping to go a stage further in harnessing the power of electricity than Nikolas Tesla, DARPA envisions a future where underground intelligence centers send and receive data on the strikes of lightning bolts. The project known as Sferics-Based Underground Geolocation or S-BUG, involves harnessing low-frequency radio signals or pulses created naturally by lightning strikes, then using...

Project Anubis MAV...

| March 10, 2010 | 519 Views |

Unmanned Aircraft Systems company AeroVironment, has recently been awarded a $1.2 million Phase-III (typically the final development stage) Air Force contract for the completion of Project Anubis. While specifications remain scarce, Pentagon budget documents for FY2010 reveal Project Anubis as a “Tactical MAV for Time-Sensitive Fleeting Targets,” with the objective of...

Asus T91 Multi Touchscreen Tablet...

Asus T91 Multi Touchscreen Tablet

| March 7, 2010 | 762 Views |

The Asus Eee PC T91MT Tablet Netbook is the updated and newest version of their popular T91 convertible touchscreen netbook. Unlike original T91 Nebook, the new Asus Eee T91MT supports the first ever multi-touchscreen gestures (hence the “MT” in the model name). For those who are not familiar with multi-touchscreen gestures or do not know what the hype is all about; continue reading...

Testing Bulletproof Vests...

Testing Bulletproof Vests

| March 3, 2010 | 1,039 Views | 1 Comment

Only the most effective bulletproof vests are worthy of being certified by the National Institute of Justice. But the question is – which vest stops bullets with the least pain? Over at the Oregon Ballistics Lab, one of six NIJ-certified facilities in the US, testing is carried out by mounting the armor on a 220-pound block of modeling clay then using a mechanized rig to fire six...

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