Perhaps you’ve seen them popping up in your own timeline: insular, blocky chunks of bar graph data curiously sent out by the people you follow. These visual representations are actually lines of unicode, or standardized web terms used to represent text. On Twitter they’ve been coined Spark Tweets, and they’re the brainchild of two Wall [...]
Remember the German guy who built his own working laser gun? That was nothing. The US Navy successfully tested their version of a weaponized laser, which they used to set fire to a boat off the coast of California.
Officially unveiled back in June, Toshiba’s limited-edition “next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC” is now available for preorder at $1,099.99.
The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications in Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glasses that use LED lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the right direction.
Adaptive headlight systems have been around for a couple of years for the 4-wheel variety but BMW’s upcoming 2011 K1600GT/GTL touring bikes will be the first motorcycles fitted with adaptive xenon headlight technology. The HID lighting system will automatically adjust the headlight’s output so that it stays flat by compensating for front and rear pitch [...]
It’s hard to get a read on Toshiba’s Libretto W100. It’s being pitched by the company as “a next-gen ultra-mobile concept PC” in honor of Toshiba hitting the 25-year laptop production milestone, yet despite the “concept” tag we’re being treated to a full list of specs and news that the product will actually be sold [...]
The French are totally kicking butt when it comes to imagining what e-books will look like and act like. These really make the whole Kindle thing look lame.
