when Marty McFly rode a Mattel hoverboard 25 years ago. sci-fi fans all around were awestruck and some wondered if flying cars, self-drying jacket, and hoverboards awaits them in the future, or more specifically in 2015. unfortunately, while that “future” is drawing close, the tech is not anywhere close to […]
i had a vision that we would one day own devices that though small, have a big display whenever we need it. something like a touch-enabled holographic projection that we can just call up when we need a bigger display. while this Star Wars-like projection technology is still far from […]
the traditional way of signing to authenticate a credit card purchase at store front can be a hassle and not necessary the most secure way. understanding this, over the years payment companies have been trying to make things a little simpler. with Apple Pay announced last month, the Cupertino tech […]
according to some studies, prolong sitting is just about as harmful as smoking. yes. we know. it sounds pretty absurd and kind of makes the person who invented the chair looks stupid. but that’s how it is. health issue associated with sitting for too long may not be apparent, but […]
i am sure you heard about the toilet hack of dropping a brick that could save your household gallons of water (up to thousands of gallons each year). how does it work is the brick tricks your toilet into using less water. simple but brilliant idea which sometimes if you […]
looking at the current battery technology, we’d be lucky to see cars going electric, but BYD Motors is apparently undeterred and confident with the company’s own Iron-Phosphate Battery has created the world’s largest electric vehicle, an articulated 60-foot passenger that sits 120 and capable of traveling over 170 miles (274 […]
under normal circumstances, to know tomorrow’s weather is as simple as reading graphical representation or listening to your local weatherman. whichever way we are using today is more than sufficient for our knowledge and it seems nothing else needed to be done, or so we thought. apparently, a group of […]
technology can help us, but it can also be a threat, depending on which side you are on. hold on right there. we are not talking about the fabled Skynet, though we love to make references to it; we are talking about the Striker II Helmet-Mounted Display (HMD) which British […]
Swedish furniture maker Ikea has pretty much revolutionized flat-pack furniture and all seems good, until you start putting the TV console together. suddenly, things that involves metal screws and hex keys aren’t as easy as it seem to be – made worst by an instructional manual that has no descriptive […]
if you eat takeout often, then you are guilty of contributing the hard-to-decomposed, non-biodegradable disposal plastic spoons. apparently, it takes at least 20 years for it to decomposed under “best conditions” or over 1,000 years in less-than-ideal conditions such as landfills. sounds a little scary, doesn’t it? disposable plastic spoons […]
drug use, illicit or not, driver fatigue, distractions, unfamiliar roads, failure to check blind spots are just some of main cause of heavy truck accidents which, according to a study, accounts for as many as 3,757 death in 2011 in the U.S. alone and often the trucks involved are heavy […]