Who doesn’t love Wikipedia? How about some great music? What if we told you that there is a website, similar to that of Wikipedia, that will take any YouTube video and stream the guitar chords in real time so that you can learn to play along? The folks at youtab.me READ MORE >
Do you ever just have the kind of day at work when even walking to the printer takes up too much time? Well worry no more! Thanks to Fuji and Xerox there is a robot printer that is currently being tested in Tokyo. The printer/robot has the ability to come READ MORE >
“Disobedient Objects” is a new exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on the role of objects in social movements since the late 1970s. The exhibition features a variety of objects from movements from around the world, including banners, defaced currency, and experimental activist-bicycles. As part of the READ MORE >
So by now we’ve all been exposed one way or another to the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. While some videos are ridiculous (check out Homer Simpson’s) others are touching and shed some light on the truth behind why this ‘challenge’ was created (like Anthony Carbajal’s. No matter the video you READ MORE >
What about 2.6 million pictures? We’ll soon find out! Kalev Leetaru, an American academic from Georgetown University, has been working tirelessly on creating an accessible database of over 2.6 million historic pictures. Some of the images date back as far as the sixteenth century and until now there has been READ MORE >
The technological revolution is upon us! In the short Video, Humans Need Not Apply, our world is exposed to that of the robot. The video sheds light on the fact that robots can do many of the things that us earthlings do – with better precision and accuracy, for a READ MORE >
Here’s some spellbinding news! Our friends at Harvard have developed a real life spell to make objects levitate. Well, maybe not a spell and maybe not ‘real’ levitation but they are certainly on their way. Scientists in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology have started to use magnetic levitation READ MORE >
What’s a struggling baseball team do to keep the energy up in less than packed stadiums? Robots of course! The Hanwha Eagles have suffered more than 400 losses in the past five years, so fans are few and far between until now. By introducing a rowdy section of robots the READ MORE >
As folks who spend their day figuring out how to catch someone’s attention, our interest was piqued when we read that there might be a way to quantify the quick social judgments we make based on a stranger’s face. Researchers at the University of York have measured small differences in READ MORE >
When we think of robots we often think Star Wars and machines like C3P0, who can figure out what to do if their leg gets blown-off by Storm Troopers, but in reality, most robots remain stationary in factories and when they break, they shut down. Currently companies like Boston Dynamics READ MORE >