Alternative Energy Watches and Pioneering Consumer Electronics

Watches have been at the forefront of consumer electronics development for the last 100 years. From the traditional pocket watch to Citizen’s Eco-Drive these handheld marvels continue to push the limits of technology. Watches are also fashion statement and can communicate without words wealth and sophistication.

Seiko twenty years ago created the first watch [...]

Lytro offers a Revolutionary new approach to Digital Photography

I’m not a camera expert but I do like many of us know how to gauge lighting to some extent, point and shoot. When taking a picture from my digital or phone camera the images can look good but sometimes either the foreground or background can be blurry. I’ve also noticed natural light is best [...]

Compostable Mushroom Packaging Materials to the Rescue

Mushrooms are now being used in Compostable Packaging – This will decrease the need for plastic or Styrofoam computer packaging materials:

In 2011, Paul Stamets predicted that fungi would become vital to the environmental sustainability of the modern consumer world. Now it is 2012 and was Mr. Stamets correct with his predictions? It turns [...]

Online Privacy is the latest Oxymoron of the Internet

Online Privacy is becoming an Oxymoron:

Online Privacy, it’s the most popular subject on the internet to discuss with strangers. And now it’s coming directly to your desktop…because the two major social media outlets have changed their Online Privacy Policies. Specifically, Facebook and Google (which encompasses Google + and YouTube as well) now track [...]

DIY Charger for USB devices Using a 9 Volt battery

SmallFishBigOcean from YouTube shows us how to make a USB charger:

Do It Yourself (DIY) projects are a growing trend on social media and video sites such as YouTube.com. More people are building innovative technology solutions out of found and recycled items. One such person is the YouTube user, “SmallFishBigOcean” who details instructions on [...]

Laser Interactivity meets Gaming in Wall of Pong

Wall of Pong is the opposite of the Microsoft XBOX Kinect – Gamers interact directly with a laser as the virtual "ball"

Unlike Microsoft’s XBOX Kinect hardware which optically scans gamers whom interact with a onscreen characters, the “Wall of Pong” does the complete opposite. Students at the Cornell University School of Electrical and [...]

Youth of today use Second Life to Solve Real World Social Problems

Second Life used in an experiment to help young people solve social issues:

Second Life is a virtual environment where gamers can be anything from a king to a prisoner. Although it has received controversial reviews for how participants can carry out life-like erotic fantasies with strangers, it is also being evaluated for social [...]

How Technologically Advanced is Iran?

Iran has held a Quantum Technology symposium in 2010:

Iran is working on developing nuclear energy technology. The question is whether or not Iran is attempting to use this technology for military purposes. In the United States, our major media outlets have been portraying Iran in an ambiguous light. On one side, we see [...]

Impressive New Night Flight Video for the F35

A new F35 Night Flight Video has been recently released by Lockheed Martin:

The F-35 has been noted for its extreme production costs. A price tag of over $300 billion dollars comes with these powerful multi-role fighters. Many skeptics don’t see the need for more United States air superiority. On YouTube, several comments surfaced [...]

Slow Typers are more vulnerable to Keyboard Based security threats

Keyloggers used to be the primary Keyboard Security Threat – But now there is another threat which directly affects slow typers:

People who type slowly are now much more vulnerable to keyboard based security threats than their quick-typing counterparts. In the past, keyloggers were the primary method of the clandestine acquisition of keyboard data [...]