First Look at the Rift, Shipping Q1 2016
The Oculus Rift will hit online stores as early as next year, the groundbreaking VR company announced on Wednesday, with the option to pre-order coming later this year.
May 6, 2015 at 07:30AM
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PayPal Wants to Make Your Body a Password
As a part of its ‘body integration’ campaign, the payment service is working on an ingestible pill that would preserve your password in the slimiest of vessels: your stomach.
May 6, 2015 at 01:09AM
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Beam: Projecting The Future
Beam can be screwed into any ordinary light socket. The projector has the ability to turn any flat surface into a big screen. If you’re the type who says, “yeah, whatever, I don’t really care to project Netflix whilst I relax in the bath,” luckily Beam is much more than a one-trick, projection pony. Turning tables into boardgames, walls into digital art and bedroom ceilings into weather reports — Beam is everywhere.
May 5, 2015 at 11:06PM
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A Chinese company is replacing 90 percent of its workers with robots
The South China Morning Post reported today that Shenzhen Evenwin Precision Technology Co., a manufacturing company that makes cell phone parts and other electronics, is planning to replace roughly 90 percent of its 1,800-person workforce with machines, leaving roughly 1,600 people out of work.
May 5, 2015 at 08:58PM
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Freightliner Just Revealed The First Real Road-Legal Autonomous Big Rig
The Freightliner “Inspiration Truck” will be the first autonomous commercial truck to drive on American roads. Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Daimler Chairman Wolfgang Bernhard just bolted on its Autonomous Vehicle license plate to prove it’s the real deal, and it’s already been spotted in action.
May 5, 2015 at 04:33PM
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These Entrepreneurs Might Have Just Given Women the Most Personalized Vibrator Yet
When it comes to pleasure, shouldn’t women get exactly what they want?
May 5, 2015 at 04:33PM
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The Best Electric Toothbrush
To find the best electric toothbrush, we put in almost 100 total hours of research, interviewing experts, evaluating every model on the market, and testing 10 toothbrushes ourselves in hundreds of trials at the bathroom sink.
May 5, 2015 at 03:36PM
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Digital Music Couldn’t Exist Without the Fourier Transform
This is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny little JPG files, and even powering your noise-canceling headphones. Here’s how it works.
May 5, 2015 at 03:36PM
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How the NSA Converts Spoken Words Into Searchable Text
Top-secret documents from the archive of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden show the National Security Agency can now automatically recognize the content within phone calls by creating rough transcripts and phonetic representations that can be easily searched and stored.
May 5, 2015 at 03:36PM
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My Weekend Confusing People With a Futuristic Credit Card
It’s Stratos. It’s a single card designed to replace all your credit, debit, loyalty and membership cards with one piece of plastic. It works with a smartphone app to store and switch between cards, and activates with a single tap. It lights up, you press on the plastic once to pick your card, and it swipes. It’s easy, and it’s going to confuse everyone.
May 5, 2015 at 02:36PM
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