Jacob Siegal spends a vast majority of his time surrounded with and invested in technology and media, so he decided he may as well start writing about it. You can find more of his writing at Game Rant and his topical tweets @JacobSiegal.
When we were kids, we were told that flying cars would signify that we had truly reached the future. Although flying cars might still be at least a few years away, a group of Czech companies demonstrated a prototype of a flying electric bicycle in Prague earlier this week.
According to the Associated Press, the bike weighs 209 pounds and has five battery-powered propellers, and it successfully flew around the room for five minutes before landing safely. For the test flight, the design team placed a dummy on the seat of the bike. Milan Duchek, technical director of Duratec,` says more powerful batteries will be necessary in order to carry a human.
So what are we waiting for? Let’s get those powerful batteries ASAP!
Amber covers lifestyle and mobile tech, including fit tech, mHealth, travel, home automation and more. In her non-tech time she takes too many pictures of her cats, watches zombie movies, crochets, and plans out her next tattoos. More by Amber Bouman
There are…. a shockingly large amount of cat-related apps available: There are photo effect apps that will superimpose cats onto your photos, apps that run games for cats to play, and games about cats like Catcrafter or Battle Cats. There are apps about famous cats (Nyan Cat, Cat in the Hat), cat sounds apps, apps that provide you with an interactive cat friend... I could go on (and on, and on) but you’ve probably gotten the point. There are a damn lot of cat apps.
And now there’s an app that will take selfies of your cat, Snapcat. Much like the popular (and similarly named) app Snapchat, Snapcat is a photo app that is “for cats, by cats.” It is, in fact, the first social photo sharing app just for cats.
Kevin is a small-time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know-at-least-something of all things geeky hailing from New York. More by Kevin Lee
The lo-fi film lovers at Lomography have really outdone themselves this time with a 35-millimeter SLR camera called the Konstruktor that you have to assemble yourself. No, this isn’t some kind of half-baked camera product. The idea here is to have fun building your own personal shooter while learning how the mechanical bits in a camera actually work.
For $35, you get a box filled with everything you need to put the DIY camera together, including a 50-millimeter lens, a film holder, a top-down viewfinder, and the camera body itself. So you really are basically building the camera from scratch.
Evan lives in Brooklyn, NY and enjoys writing about what future may hold and taking long romantic walks on the beach. More by Evan Dashevsky
As the virtual world seeps out into reality, we also find ourselves getting more immersed in the digital domain. Gesture controls continue to be at the forefront of user interfaces (UI), and Israel-based PointGrab believes their software-based approach may be the key to bringing ubiquitous gesture control to the masses.
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“Gesture is not a gimmick. It’s an input mechanism,” PointGrab’s VP of marketing and product, Assaf Gad, told TechHive. “And the best solution will be the one that is unified.” Gesture control is nothing new, but it’s something that no one has been able to get right—yet. Remember the excitement around Nintendo Wii or even the controller-less Kinect? How many Xboxers use the Kinect to navigate the system today?
Chris Brandrick is a freelance writer with an interest in all things tech, gadgets, and gaming. More by Chris Brandrick
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Huggies has developed a set of belts that allow soon-to-be fathers to get a feel for what baby-kicking action really feels like. The belts detects all the motion going on in an expectant mother's womb, kicks included, and mirrors it across to the father's belt.
The belt, which just so happens to make future Dad's look a little like a 1994 Schwarzenegger cosplayer, will probably not make it on to store shelves—this one is just a concept for now.
Jacob Siegal spends a vast majority of his time surrounded with and invested in technology and media, so he decided he may as well start writing about it. You can find more of his writing at Game Rant and his topical tweets @JacobSiegal.
You know those paintings that show up in nearly every episode of Scooby Doo that follow the gang with suspiciously active eyes as they pass by? How would you like to create your own animatronic eyes and be basically the best neighbor on the block this October?
Thanks to Instructables member LGProspects, you can do just that with the help of his guide and a little Arduino wizardry. Unfortunately, the builder did not give instructions on how to construct a suitable mask for your new remote-controlled eyes, but it’s important to take these scary projects on one body part at a time.
Kevin is a small-time tech hound, amateur photographer, and a general know-at-least-something of all things geeky hailing from New York. More by Kevin Lee
Throwing the first pitch at a big-league baseball game is something most of us can only dream about. But thanks to technology, one 13-year-old boy named Nick LeGrande will throw out the first pitch for a Major League Baseball game from 1800 miles away. It will be the first time that someone has remotely thrown a pitch via a telepresence robot.
Nick will throw the first pitch of Wednesday night's game at the O.co Coliseum between the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees from his home in Kansas City, Missouri, thanks to telerobotic pitching machine connected through Google Fiber.
Recently, Nick’s big-league dreams were put on hold after he was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening blood disorder known as Aplastic Anemia. Oakland A’s reliever Ryan Cook, who will catch the pitch, worked with Google to give Nick this awesome opportunity after learning that Nick’s plight stopped him from playing baseball games.
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