The Telescope of the 2030s
In what they termed “a call to arms,” an organization of American university astronomers said last week that NASA should begin planning now to launch a sort of supersize version of the Hubble Space Telescope in the 2030s to look for life beyond Earth.
July 14, 2015 at 04:47PM
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Pixar Employee Builds Adorable Peek-A-Boo Robot
Mira is a tiny egg-shaped bot. How it knows whether you’re “hiding” or not is beyond us, all we know is its the cutest thing since Haro from the “Gundam” series.
July 14, 2015 at 02:32PM
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This gadget tells you how busy your favorite cafe is
Think of it as an API for getting information on whether there’s a line at the Department of Motor Vehicles or your favorite coffee shop.We’ve all wondered… but there’s often no way of knowing until it’s too late.
July 14, 2015 at 02:33AM
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Phone Notifications Are Distracting Even When You Ignore Them
A new study indicates that people are very distracted just by receiving a text message — even if they ignore it.
July 14, 2015 at 01:33AM
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Development Of A $200 WiFi Router Geared Towards Whistleblowers Was Just Suspiciously Cancelled
ProxyHam, a $200 WiFi router aimed at those seeking the utmost in anonymity, promised to mask users’ IP addresses and place their geographic coordinates miles away from their actual locations. Plans to create the device were mysteriously axed Friday and the company behind its production, Rhino Security Labs, is giving no further statement.
July 13, 2015 at 10:25PM
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Why Google’s Deep Dream Is Future Kitsch
It’s easy to discuss Deep Dream as an independent creature. But like all kitsch, it comes straight back to its creators.
July 13, 2015 at 09:03PM
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The Turing Phone Is Built to Be Unhackable and Unbreakable
“In the future, if you don’t have liquid metal, nano-coating, and a privacy key, you’ll be phased out right away.”
July 13, 2015 at 05:05PM
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This Company Wants To Test Plastic Roads That Can Be Made In a Factory
The idea is to recycle plastic from oceans into a tough aggregate that could be poured and molded into pre-fabricated “bricks” and installed on site quickly. As the The Guardian notes, prefab roads would go a long way towards curtailing the massive amount of pollution created by asphalt (“2% of all road transport emissions,” the paper says).
July 13, 2015 at 05:05PM
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Now You Can Pay for Code Boot Camp With Student Loans
Startups like Max Levchin’s Affirm are using tech to offer student loans for learn-to-code bootcamps. But some are questioning whether it’s just another way to perpetuate the cycle of student loan debt.
July 13, 2015 at 02:58PM
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Weird Gadget Is Supposed To Fix Ingrown Nails, Looks Like A Medieval Torture Device
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t, we couldn’t make it through the whole thing before we ran screaming from our desks.
July 13, 2015 at 02:14PM
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