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
Back in February, the giant Chelyabinsk meteorite just about exploded over central Russia, serving as a rude awakening that these falling space rocks can do some serious damage. A week later, we got another reminder almost everywhere on our planet has been pelted by these falling alien stones.
If that was not enough to make you squirm in your seat, a data designer named Carlo Zapponi has created a new meteor-centric animation called Bolides, named after the fireball-lke nature of these falling space rocks. This interactive animation makes the sky look like it’s raining hellfire and brimstone as it creates a timeline of every recorded meteorite that humans have seen hit the Earth since 861 AD.
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
We’ve already got airborne drones to deliver piping hot treats like tacos and burritos. After munching away on all that tortilla-wrapped goodness, you're bound to be rather parched. Have no fear! This is where the beer-copter comes into save the day by airdropping cold brews to the thirsty masses.
In other words, it’s quite literally going to rain beer thanks to small flying robots.
Elizabeth Fish is a freelance writer who happens to run a hyperlocal news website in Lincoln, UK. She also covers all things geeky for TechHive. More by Elizabeth Fish
If you ever watched the action hero movie Thor, you may remember Mjolnir, his amazing electrified hammer. Who wouldn’t want a giant hammer that can summon lightning? As it happens, it is possible to make a really good replica with Tesla coils.
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.
Remember last month when Space Mountain at Disneyland closed down? The devastating aftermath of the ride’s closing can now come to an end: the Associated Press reports that Space Mountain has since reopened. I guess that means this This Week in Space's temporary hiatus is over as well. On to the space news!
Corey Tamas is a communications consultant, a father, and professional musician in Ottawa, Ontario. More by Corey Tamas
What if you could focus on one person's voice in a crowded shopping mall? Or focus on just the drummer at a concert? Students from the Royal College of Art developed a pair of head-mounted devices can do just that.
The gear, called "Eidos," can improve your selective perception and even augment basic human sight and hearing. It works by isolating visual and sonic information from extraneous input, and then enhancing it from there. For example, you can use it to highlight patterns in movement by setting the headgear to show trails behind moving objects.
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
On Monday, the Department of Energy’s advanced research facility at the Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico unveiled that it has had a functioning quantum Internet for more than two years—in a work-around sort of way.
Both engineers and super spies have long pined for a quantum Internet that utilizes strange properties of top shelf particle physics instead of conventional bytes to transmit information. Messages transmitted using this quantum cryptography are, in effect, 100 percent secure.
In a very dumbed down sort of way, a quantum message sends information that can only be translated at the other end. The very act of anyone listening into the message would render the information useless.
Cassandra Khaw is an entry-level audiophile, a street dancer, a person who writes about video games for a living, and someone who spends too much time on Twitter. More by Cassandra Khaw
When we're all one day replaced by perfect, digital versions of ourselves, this is what historians are going to point to as the start of the fall of mankind—an artificial roundworm simulator that can can feed itself, find a mate, and avoid predators.
Obligatory doomsaying aside, OpenWorm is a rather rad idea. The project is an open source, collaborative attempt to create a digital version of the microscopic Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) using a Java-based simulation.
