Your Personal information is Out There: The Largest Government Hack Ever!
July 21st, 2015
The Homido VR smartphone adapter is available for pre-order today for €69. The device, which mounts a smartphone into a head-mounted housing for use as a VR headset, will be delivered in October, according to the France-based company. Homido says their VR smartphone adapter is compatible with some 80 smartphones, including all Apple iOS smartphones… Continue Reading »
Let’s talk about layers. Traditional 3D printing involves a machine stacking layers of material to create a 3D object. This takes time and leaves ripples showing where those layers were laid down. Now, imagine you could grow an object out of a pool of liquid, much like Robert Patrick emerging as the T-1000 from a… Continue Reading »
Compassionate toddler gets adorably emotional while watching cartoon about lost baby penguin. When I noticed my young daughter getting emotionally absorbed in the cartoon she was watching, I set up a camera to record her. And the results are just adorable. [via youtube] Register for an account it’s free to participate in the discussion or share… Continue Reading »
In a little over a decade, ATM skimmers have gone from urban myth to a wildly complex, ever-evolving suite of technologies that has the potential to be the worst nightmare of anyone with a bank account. Here’s a look at how quickly skimmers have evolved—and why they’re increasingly impossible to spot. What is skimming? In… Continue Reading »
Most fitness trackers monitor the habits of relatively self-aware, healthy individuals — those looking to lose weight or hit a steps goal each day — but a new device intended for seniors keeps tabs on how they’re doing and alerts caregivers when something might be wrong. Tempo, by CarePredict, is a wristband tracker that doubles… Continue Reading »
Here to remind you how cute a parent-child Disney sing-along can be, little Taigan and her mom lip-sync Frozen’s “Love is an Open Door.” Of course, mom has to lip synch Hans. Kids, right? This is just the latest reminder that the Frozen soundtrack will be sticking around in minivan CD players around the world… Continue Reading »
Wearable technology has clear applications for healthcare, but it’s just one tool. To really find better treatments and cures for disease, the data from the wearable needs to reach beyond a single patient and become part of an aggregate, which medical researchers all over the world can access and analyze. In other words, it needs… Continue Reading »
Apple hasn’t even announced the iPhone 6 yet, but Samsung is already poised to attack it with a new smartphone design: the Galaxy Alpha. The Samsung Galaxy Alpha, which has been rumored for a while, has excellent specs as well as a new design that brandishes a chamfered metal edge, just like the current iPhone… Continue Reading »
The Manning brothers are back with more football. And fantasy. Mostly fantasy. As a followup to 2013’s “Football on Your Phone” video, Peyton and Eli promote DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket’s new Fantasy Zone channel with a bizarre rap video. If fantasy football also included space travel, a pegasus and footlong sandwiches, count us in. [via… Continue Reading »
Ebola hemorrhagic fever can be one of most terrifying diseases on the planet, and the current outbreak in West Africa is concerning for many reasons. But it’s also important to keep this outbreak in context, because there is a lot of information out there that can make Ebola sound much more dangerous than it is…. Continue Reading »