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How to Make a Kaleidoscope
Ever looked through a kaleidoscope? It’s beautiful, isn’t it? The sunlight bounces off the colored beads and glass and is reflected in the mirrors to create beautiful patterns which you can see when...
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Geek Trivia: Some Plants Use Chemical Signals To Call What To Their Defense?
Some Plants Use Chemical Signals To Call What To Their Defense? Wasps Giraffes Moles Birds Think you know the answer? Link: Geek Trivia: Some Plants Use Chemical Signals To Call What To Their Defense?
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Ford’s Fusion Hybrid research car will explore our driverless future
Ford is convinced that autonomous cars are the future, and it’s putting its money where its mouth is by unveiling a Fusion Hybrid variant built solely for researching driverless-car technology. The...
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Scientists combine magnets with bull semen to create ‘spermbots’ (yes, really)
Oliver Schmidt’s team at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Germany has created a controllable spermbot. Not a word we’d ever think we’d be writing either. After adding cone-shaped...
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FCC FTW: wireless telcos agree to more consumer-friendly phone unlocking...
About a month ago, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler gave the U.S. wireless industry an ultimatum: choose to get on board with unlocking people’s phones or face regulatory action forcing it to do so. Today,...
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IFTTT now lets iOS users automate their location
IFTTT (If This Then That) is a handy online service capable of connecting various apps and devices together and running automated tasks (or “recipes”) that you’d normally find mundane and...
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Microsoft joins the FIDO Alliance to put an end to passwords
The FIDO Alliance is on a roll: It already has support from heavyweights like Google and Lenovo in its quest to eliminate password-based sign-ins, and it’s now bringing Microsoft into the fold. The...
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Aereo chief: ‘We have decided not to oppose the broadcasters’ petition before...
Big media may have thought its deep pockets and love of ceaseless litigation would break Aereo’s bank and spirit, but the cloud-based DVR company’s striking back at its broadcast rivals with a...
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Borderlands 2 mobile app turns QR codes into absurd in-game armaments...
Borderlands 2 is attempting the Herculean task of exciting people about QR codes. With its new LootTheWorld mobile app, Gearbox Software (Borderlands, Brothers in Arms and, er, Aliens: Colonial...
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Ford Gives a Demo of Its Model T of Driverless Cars
Different view: Ford activated the car’s lidar at the press event, showing the event from the vehicle’s view. Ford demonstrated its first self-driving research vehicle today, and in doing it so gave a...
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Why Do Some Network Plugs Have Covers and Some Are Naked?
Hang around an office long enough and you’ll see a distinct trend in network cabling. Some cables have a covered plug and some cables are naked. What’s the purpose of the little plug cover? Today’s...
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Moving Illusions
What do you think of images that appear to have moving parts, but actually do not? Ever wonder how these optical illusions work? YouTube channel Vsauce has the answer to that question, awesome...
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How to Securely Transfer Files to Someone Else with SFTP
We’ve previously written about hosting your own FTP server, but data is transferred in cleartext, making it unsuitable for confidential file transfers. In this guide we’ll go over the secure version...
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Bing broadens Snapshot to include TED Talks, famous speeches and more...
How do you improve adoption of a search engine? You make it so users never have to leave the results page, or so Microsoft’s latest Bing enhancements would suggest. With the bevy of new features...
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PMD’s Nimble UX platform gives computers super accurate touchless gesture...
Most of us are familiar with touchless gesture controls, thanks to the efforts of Leap Motion, SoftKinetic, PrimeSense and others. PMD, however, is a name you may not be familiar with, despite the...
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PlayStation 4 on top in November next-gen console sales according to NPD
Confirming what we already suspected, sales tracking firm NPD reports that the PlayStation 4 outsold the Xbox One in North America during November. As of latest numbers, the Playstation 4 is in 2.1...
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Razer Comms for Android keeps in-game chat alive when you leave your PC
It can be tough to leave in-game voice chats — step away to walk the dog and you may miss an important strategy session. You’ll stay in the loop with Razer’s new Comms for Android, though. The free...
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Daily Roundup: Jawbone Up24 review, Instagram Direct announced, Aereo...
You might say the day is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workday, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Daily Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the...
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Qualcomm COO reportedly added to Microsoft’s list of potential Ballmer...
There are plenty of of high profile names currently being bandied about as potential successors to Steve Ballmer’s Redmond throne. Stephen Elop’s name has been on the tip of a lot of tongues, thanks...
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Stephen Hawking’s first official app teaches the basics of the universe
Stephen Hawking has gone to great lengths to promote science through books and videos, but he has been conspicuously absent in the software world — until now, that is. The astrophysicist has just...
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