How Facebook's Chief Geek Will Meld Reality With the Oculus
• WiredAfter so many years of unfulfilled promise, virtual reality--and its cousin, augmented reality--are finally moving towards the mainstream.
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Twitter's Periscope App Lets You Livestream Your World
• http://www.wired.comOn Monday morning, I watched the Today Show. Not on TV, though, and not standing and screaming alongside middle-aged Texans in the vicious cold outside the show's Rockefeller Center digs.
Father-Son Team Resurrects a Strange, Forgotten Concept Car
• http://www.wired.comWhen car designer Preston Tucker first imagined the Torpedo, back in the 1940s, it seemed to belong in some fanciful future: butterfly-style doors, fuel injection, an airplane-like engine, and pivoting headlights that turn to light the curved road ah
What if We Could Design Wearables Right on Our Skin?
• http://www.wired.comScan the crowded wearables market, and you'll find a wild buffet of options. There are gizmos that wean you off cigarettes and monitor your sun exposure.
Twitter's Periscope App Lets You Livestream Your World
• Wired.ComIn a week of beta-testing Periscope, the live-streaming app that Twitter bought for a reported $100 million early this year and is officially launching today, I've seen a lot of crazy things.
The Galaxy S6 Edge Is Totally Beautiful--And Pointless
• Wired.ComThe Galaxy S6 and S6 edge are two of the most anticipated, most important devices of the year. They represent an entirely new design direction from Samsung, with glass and carefully machined aluminum where there was once dimpled plastic that looked a
Nuvo's Ritmo Beats and PregSense wearables provide continuous pregnancy monitoring
• http://www.gizmag.comYou might remember Nuvo from its prenatal music system released back in 2010, but the company's latest efforts, known as the Ritmo Beats and PregSense, are decidedly more ambitious.
FAA loosens rules for commercial drone flight
• http://www.gizmag.comIf you want to operate your drone for commercial reasons in the US at the moment, there are considerable hoops you'll need to fly through first.
Adaptalux lighting system reaches out to macro fans with LED arms
• gizmag.comAdaptalux is a modular lighting system which features flexible spider-like LED arms to offer macro photographers and videographers adaptable and creative lighting options.
Blue Freedom: A mini hydropower plant for charging mobile devices
• gizmag.comThe all-new Blue Freedom kit offers yet another alternative to solar panels, fuel cells, muscle-powered dynamos, wind turbines, AC-charged back-up batteries and other portable power solutions.
Boeing patents 'Star Wars'-style force fields
• http://www.cnet.comAircraft and military manufacturer Boeing has been granted a patent on a system that is designed to prevent explosion shockwaves from harming a target.
Google Glass isn't dead, it's being 'made ready for users,' says Eric Schmidt
• http://www.theverge.com, By James VincentAfter Google stopped selling its wearable Glass device in January this year, many people speculated that the controversial gadget was on its way out for good.
Square Opens Cash to Businesses as Facebook's Shadow Looms
• http://www.wired.comSquare is trying to make spending money fun.
World's first plasmonic nanostructure recording could produce storage breakthrough
• http://www.gizmag.comThe use of optical sound-on-film recording on early movie films revolutionized the motion picture industry and remained the standard method of audio recording in that medium for more than 80 years.
7 Google Projects That Have World-Changing Potential
• http://mentalfloss.comGoogle, one of the world leaders in web services and mobile retail, is also developing a few high-profile projects through its Google X Labs that are advancing technology, clean energy, and fine art.
Personal Flamethrower Might Get Crowdfunding Approval
• PopsciViolate the Geneva Conventions in your own backyard!
Space Invaders Is More Fun With A Real Laser And Flaming Aliens
• PopsciTake one laser cutter, a few dozen paper aliens, and a dash of know-how.
SXSW 2015: Cuddly Drones Designed By Kids
• PopsciBirthday party drones are way more fun than the ones that just take photos
Chevy's Helping Parents Spy on Their Terrible Teen Drivers
• http://www.wired.comTeenagers are terrible drivers. It's why parents worry about handing over the keys to a brand new car to their brand new driver.
Ceekars 4D headphones are like Oculus Rift for your ear
• http://www.gizmag.comThe smart headphones are designed to bring a new level of immersion to virtual reality, gaming and other media through haptic feedback and a more immersive sound technology.
How a Circular Smartphone Could Help Us Rethink Tech
• http://www.wired.comScreens are rectangles. Even the 3-year-old playing with your iPad could tell you that. But what would the digital world look like through a different sort of frame?
Automated Car Set To Drive Itself From San Francisco To New York
• CBS New YorkA road trip from California to New York that starts on Sunday is about to make headlines.
Students are Building the World's Largest Telescope
• http://mentalfloss.comStudents around the world are building a giant telescope, but it doesn't look like what you'd imagine.
Google Just Fixed One of Wi-Fi's Biggest Annoyances
• WiredYou walk into a coffee shop, where your phone hungrily gloms onto the open Wi-Fi network--probably called something like Netgear, or AT&TWiFi--and promptly stops working.
Ceekars 4D headphones are like Oculus Rift for your ears
• GizmagThe smart headphones are designed to bring a new level of immersion to virtual reality, gaming and other media through haptic feedback and a more immersive sound technology.
Hot glue gun becomes handheld 3D printer with some help from Lego
• GizmagGiven some biodegradable 3D printing filament and tasked with doing something creative with it, Vimal Patel built an extruder using Lego, attached it to a rather ordinary hot glue gun and ended up with a pretty funky 3D printing pen ?" a DIY 3Doodl
Live Agent Connectivity
• http://ericpetersautos.com, by ericUsually, that somewhere is a backwater of some kind; only a few people are involved and the majority either are unaware it's happening at all or they don't care because hey, it's not happening to them.
Cutting the cable cord might not save you as much as you think
• https://www.yahoo.comAfter years of complaining about being locked into expensive pay TV plans, the American viewer is now being bombarded with choices, as media companies and gadget makers invite them to "cut the cord" and go "over the top" by pulling in more
After Terminator Arm, DARPA Wants Implantable Hard Drive for the Brain
• Military.ComAn experimental Pentagon program has already developed two types of a highly advanced, Terminator-like prosthetic arm.
New Startups Are Allowing Satellites to 'Rideshare' All the Way to Space
• http://motherboard.vice.com, Jason Koebler?The sharing economy is hitting spaceflight. A slew of new companies are trying to democratize space access using the mantra that, if you're all going to the same place, why not go together?
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