Science
Cell Phones
Transparent Touch Screen Phone Born in Taiwan Powered by the U.S.
Well it’s hardly practical for those with fingers of the movie-food variety. Clumsy butter-fingers or not this completely transparent cell phone is like a working prop plucked from Tinsel Town’s next big sci-fi bloc...
News Stories
Los Angeles Syncs 4,398 Traffic Signals, Commute Speeds Up, Emissions Down
And here were are. I just finished a post talking, in exaggeration, about the implications of “Big Brother”. This is in today’s piece on Watch Dogs, Ubisoft’s PlayStation 4 launch title that thumbs its n...
Battery
New Innovation in Lithium Ion Battery Could Triple Capacity
Movies and books often paint a very grim outlook of the future where everything of necessity is in perilously short supply. The TV show Revolution by JJ Abrams asks the questions what would we do if someone just spontaneously c...
News Stories
Back to the Future Still Inspiring Hoverboard Inventions While Quantum Locking Brings Them to Life (pics/video)
The famous hoverboard scene from 1989′s movie blockbuster, Back to the Future Part II inspired my buddies and I to etch countless drawings of future cars, boats and hoverboards. Needless to say we, in all our adolescent ...
Green Energy
MOVEO Electric Scooter Folds Up And Is Still Cool (pics)
We’ve seen some cool ways to zip around town. I live vicariously through Christen, who gets to tool around behind the wheel of as many of them as he can. From high-end to low-end…self-powered to solar-powered, we ha...
Android
10 of the Best Products To Prevent a Hangover (list)
Why does a fun Saturday of whiskey and margaritas mean a painful Sunday in bed? Hangovers have been one of humankind’s most despised afflictions for thousands of years – and we’re still not very good at preven...
News Stories
BigBelly Solar Powered Smart Waste & Recycling System
We like to think Green here at GR, and that was before skyrocketing energy costs, although that did little to sway us. Only with such infused noble intentions could one grin ear-to-ear over waste management. But that’s ju...
Clothing
Necomimi Cat Ears Monitor Your Brain, Wiggle and Move When You’re Excited Like a Cat (video)
Up until this point we took all those brain controlled games with a grain of salt. First, it was the Mattel Mindflex, which apparently will work with or without a user, and then there was the Star Wars Force Trainer. But thos...
Science
AquaDom: the World’s Largest Cylindrical Aquarium
What your’e looking at is the AquaDom. Though it’s part of the Sea Life Berlin complex, it’s housed inside of the Radisson Blu Hotel in Berlin, Germany. So stay there and you’ll have a view like no othe...
Offbeat
Fake: Human Birds Wings (video)
Update: It’s fake, just as we thought. The hoaxsters came clean on Dutch TV. Sorry, but sooooo fake. The Human Birdwing project may have taken the Internet by storm, but we’re calling it BS. Before we get into w...
Science
Red Bull Stratos 71,000 Foot Test Jump (video)
The Red Bull Stratos project is moving ahead nicely as Austria’s Felix Baumgartner jumped out of a space capsule from an altitude of approximately 71,580 on March 15 in New Mexico. The 42-year-old pilot rode the space cap...
