Self-Destructing Technology Expands With SecretInk

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B008R5RGAC” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Whheo8wIL._SL160_.png” width=”160″]Self-destructing technology is a sign that online and digital security is a more important concern than ever before. A new website called SecretInk lets you send emails, links, or SMS text messages that completely vanish upon reading. It’s a free-to-use service created by the interactive email company, PowerInbox and…

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Interacting with Virtual Characters

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B002BSA298″ locale=”us” height=”55″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31OF%2B5UL%2BGL._SL110_.jpg” width=”110″]Virtual characters are still quite limited in terms of interaction, if we’re using contemporary video games as a context. How we control these characters is interrupted through a series of wireless controllers and assorted software that determines how a character responds on our TV screen or our computer monitor.…

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Touchscreen technology gets a boost from a new patent

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B00BM7FN9S” locale=”us” height=”110″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41cca3hIWuL._SL110_.jpg” width=”93″]Touchscreen technology is getting a boost soon. Samsung has applied for a patent in the United States on a wraparound smartphone display, and the concept art is enough to excite. It may be that the smartphone market, and the technology itself, is reaching a point where there are few…

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Bathing in Concept Design

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B002OLZJG8″ locale=”us” height=”110″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51aqUBZk7SL._SL110_.jpg” width=”87″]Concept appliances usually approach a problem that isn’t addressed out of sluggishness. Not the least of our problems is the fact that a lot of bacteria is left on our hand and body towels after bathing, and we usually just hang the damp towels on a rack while they…

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Facial Recognition Will Service Targeted Ads

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”0805083391″ locale=”us” height=”110″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KisFUjtoL._SL110_.jpg” width=”69″]Facial recognition tools are still a little crude and very prone to controversy. Facebook’s friendly faces feature that catalog’s tags users set on their photos was the subject of much argument when in was unveiled. But in some kind of middle road between the privacy conscious and the eager business minds, the British grocery chain Tesco will start using face scanners to show targeted ads to shoppers.

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FlyKly Makes Biking Simpler and More Secure

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B004QHG17O” locale=”us” height=”150″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fxQ1cMJ6L._SL160_.jpg” width=”160″]FlyKly offers a future that’s closer than hover cars with the simple swap of a wheel. The SmartWheel by FlyKly Bikes, already a successful Kickstarter-funded project, is an electric-powered rear wheel that, in tandem with the FlyKly smartphone app, offers an exciting wave of features that will change the…

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Futuristic Video Games May Change the Way You Learn

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B008BZOVS8″ locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41d1O0U91iL._SL160_.jpg” width=”150″]Futuristic video games are set to change the traditional education system now. While our society has gradually started to incorporate general technology to enhance curriculum, we’ve still only scratched the surface of possibilities that tech-based learning offers for the next generation. What if we viewed video games not as virtual…

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Biological and Genetic Computing Methods and the Human Mind

[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”0375415467″ locale=”us” height=”100″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KXDV672PL._SL160_.jpg” width=”100″] Have you heard of concepts such as biocomputing, computational gene, DNA computing and nanobiotechnology? In lay terms, these are fields of study or research involving computing or programming using enzymes, molecules, cells and DNA. This includes computing for the storage of memory in DNA, as if it were a hard-disk.…

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Monday Marvels: Top 5 Wonders of Oct. 29 – Nov. 4

Monday Marvels: Top 5 Wonders of Oct. 29 – Nov. 4 [easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B001KPOKDC” locale=”us” height=”100″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31akCm-uXpL._SL110_.jpg” width=”100″]1. Star Trek’s Tricorder Device in the Making Scientists from University of Technology in Vienna have established a new world record: quadrupling the potential of the powerful Quantum Cascade Laser. Essentially, the laser emits terahertz radiation, invisible energy…

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