This Ingenious Machine Turns Feces Into Drinking Water
Why would anyone want to turn waste into drinking water and electricity?
Because a shocking number of people, at least 2 billion, use latrines that aren’t properly drained. The waste contaminates drinking water for millions of people, with horrific consequences: Diseases caused by poor sanitation kill some 700,000 children every year.
January 6, 2015 at 02:23PM
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Hands On With The New $1200 Sony Walkman
Sony’s iconic Walkman brand is back. The new Walkman ZX2 is designed exclusively with high-end audiophiles in mind — with a price tag to match. As Sony puts it, this is “the fruit of continuous refinement in high audio quality technologies.”
January 6, 2015 at 01:37PM
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Laser Tattoo Removal Is Crazy To Watch
The fact that the laser sounds a lot like a taser worries us.
January 6, 2015 at 01:24PM
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Dell’s new XPS 13 has a stunning edge-to-edge display
Dell is back with a brand new XPS 13 this year at the Consumer Electronics Show, and it looks like the best one yet.
January 6, 2015 at 01:16PM
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BMW Gesture Control Lets You Change the Radio with a Flip of the Wrist
Trying to take a selfie while simultaneously trying to crash a BMW is “probably not a good idea,” a press person for the Bavarian automaker tells me. Too bad. This car is my selfie stick, and I’m here to beat the selfie meme to death with it.
January 6, 2015 at 11:57AM
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Janicki Omniprocessor
The Janicki Omniprocessor turns human waste and sewage into water and electricity. In places without good waste treatment plants, it could be life changing.
January 6, 2015 at 11:07AM
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The Real Story Behind Jeff Bezos’s Fire Phone Debacle And What It Means For Amazon’s Future
Interviews with dozens of current and former employees reveal what went wrong and what it tells us about where Amazon is headed.
January 6, 2015 at 10:51AM
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The Smart, Angry Home
Are we doomed to choose between energy efficiency and emotional well-being?
January 6, 2015 at 08:40AM
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This is the new Sony Walkman
All signs pointed to a new Sony Walkman (literally) at CES 2015, and the signs didn’t lie. The new Walkman ZX2 is real, and it’s designed exclusively with high-end audiophiles in mind — as Sony puts it themselves, this is “the fruit of continuous refinement in high audio quality technologies.”
January 5, 2015 at 11:30PM
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Can An App Cure Your Fear Of Flying?
Taking advantage of the recently relaxed FAA regulations on in-flight cell phone use, various airlines and third parties have developed apps catering to the nervous flyer.
January 5, 2015 at 09:51PM
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