Category: Technology

Industrial design

'Lima Ultra' lets you create personal, private cloud storage on the cheap

The Lima Ultra lets you create your own private, secure cloud that you can access from anywhere in the world. If you want to avoid cloud storage services like OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox etc. but still want to be able...

By Umar Ansari · Sep. 20, 2020

Technology

Actual "Back to the Future" drawings compare the vision of 2015 to today

It is always amusing to take some old classical sci-fi movies, blow the dust off and watch them one more time. We should be grateful, because we live in a future world. At least year 2015 looked like a future world for the guys back in...

By Adomas Vasiliauskas · Sep. 17, 2020

Digital

Nokia's classic 3310 is making a comeback and it's got that Snake game!

The iconic Nokia 3310 is being rebooted by the tech giant alongside a line of new Android smartphones. Featuring four eye-popping color schemes, the new 3310 mobile phone packs in a 2MP camera and a battery life of over a month on...

By Umar Ansari · Sep. 12, 2020

Design

Modern Futurism: the beginning of a new digital art style takes us to an entirely different time and space

Heusden-Zolder  was born in Belgium in the year 1977. After several years of studying fine arts in an art school, he started his own study of visual arts. This lead to the beginning of a new digital art style. The fruition of this...

By admin · Sep. 04, 2020

Technology

Heat up your meal using your cellphone

In many parts of Asia, it’s customary in restaurants to put the main dish in the middle of the table, on a grill or electric pot. Everyone can serve themselves as many times as they want, and enjoy a hot meal every single time. IKEA...

By Odette Carrasquedo · Sep. 02, 2020

Technology

Glow-in-the-dark walkway is an amazing new nighttime lighting solution

“Starpath” is the name of a resurfacing methodology being developed by Pro-Tech Surfacing. Positioning the product as an alternative to street lighting, the U.K. company designed the material using solar technology that...

By Steph · Aug. 24, 2020

Art

Veteran Disney animator draws characters in 3D space with VR

We are at the verge of finding out just what virtual reality is capable of. Animator Glen Keane, however, is way past the finish line on this one. Having worked on Disney classics such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid,...

By Umar Ansari · Aug. 23, 2020

Design

Watch this space-age laser rifle burn through raw meat

Nothing satisfies the imagination like bringing a little sci-fi into reality. Laser weapons guru Patrick Priebe has developed a real-life laser rifle that shoots little red beams of light. The gun's laser beams will not take down...

By Justin Crowe · Aug. 03, 2020

Technology

Turn your plastic bottles into rope

Concerned about where your plastic bottles go once you throw them out or recycle them? Worry no more. Check out the Plastic Bottle Cutter. Creators Pavel and Ian created “a smart pocket-size tool with which you can very easily...

By Johnna Gurgel · Jul. 09, 2020

Photography

Photographer bends light in gorgeous travel series

Ever catch a sunbeam at just the right time and wish you could capture that moment? Photographer Eric Paré does just that with his beautiful light-painting series. The Montreal-based Paré travels around the world, shooting...

By Katie Bowles · Jul. 01, 2020

Technology

Cube robot balances on a corner and moves by momentum transfer

The clever people at ETH Zurich have just unveiled a video of their new mobile robotic cube. The 'Cubli' moves by running high-speed flywheels and abruptly stopping them to transfer momentum to the box itself. The result hurls Cubli...

By Justin Crowe · Jun. 26, 2020

Photography

NASA's Juno offers gorgeous expressionist painting-like views of Jupiter

NASA's project Juno has been studying Jupiter for a while now and it has sent back a flurry of new high-res images revealing the planet to be unusually beautiful. The spacecraft, launched in 2011, was tasked with studying Jupiter's...

By Umar Ansari · Jun. 06, 2020

Sculpture

Portraits created from the DNA left on your discarded chewing gum

Most of us don't think twice about tossing our used chewing gum or cigarette butts when we're done with them. Nor do we think about the hair we shed on a daily basis. It's all just trash, right? Turns out we're leaving behind more than...

By Cameron Chapman · May. 16, 2020

Technology

The Nomad Key is an incredibly-designed minimalist charging cable

Nomad Goods has got a very impressive portfolio of top-notch smartphone accessories featuring everything from leather wallets to iPhone cases. And their philosophy of "owning fewer things, being resourceful and working...

By Umar Ansari · May. 12, 2020

Digital

Xiaomi's Intel-powered smart shoes look great and hella cheap!

While it's too bad that they will only be available in China starting April, we're pretty sure they'll be launched worldwide...eventually! For about $44 a pair, this seemingly normal looking line of running shoes are actually...

By Umar Ansari · May. 06, 2020