Arduino Explained – Hobbyist Electronics to Earth Orbit
Have you thought about acquiring your own Arduino set up, but wanted to know more about it before making a final decision? Then you will definitely enjoy this video from YouTube channel Computerphile,...
View ArticleHow to Get Your Puppy to Stop Biting
Has your puppy been biting everyone or everything lately? Puppies learn how to play softly and bite gingerly by playing with other puppies or people. If they don’t get the right responses to their...
View ArticleGeek Trivia: Prior To The Early 19th Century, You Wouldn’t Experience What On...
Prior To The Early 19th Century, You Wouldn’t Experience What On Christmas? Candy Canes Santa Caroling Egg Nog Think you know the answer? Source: Geek Trivia: Prior To The Early 19th Century, You...
View ArticleEvernote for BlackBerry 10 updated with sharing, offline notebooks and more
Yearning for more from BlackBerry 10′s Evernote experience? You got it. The service just updated its native BB10 app with improved performance, more security and a small collection of overdue...
View ArticlePut a box to good use with ShoeboxCNC
Oh, the lowly box. It spends most of the year being broken down, stashed away and pulped, but one day a year, it gets its moment to shine (at least in the UK and various Commonwealth Nations)....
View ArticleHow to Make an Origami Lamp
Origami lamps are a simple yet beautiful way to produce illuminated party decorations. They’re easy to make and when combined with the energy efficient and low-heat emitting LED lights, they’re a safe...
View ArticleNASA shows off a squishy robot rover that could land on Titan (video)
NASA likes to pack light for extraterrestrial visits, so it has been developing a tensegrity rover — a rod-based robot that uses cable tension to absorb blows and roll around, rather than a bulky...
View ArticleBest of 2013: World’s First Digital Laser Designed and Built in Africa
Lasers are one of the emblematic technologies of the modern world. The chances are that most readers will be less than a metre away from a laser of some kind as they read this. Lasers fill our world....
View Article2013: The Year in Internet Stories
By Rachel Metz The Internet of Things has long been on the rise. But in 2013 it soared in prominence, with the release of several devices whose functions were augmented by online connectivity. These...
View ArticleLG’s HomeChat will let you command its latest smart appliances via SMS
LG really, really wants you to have a good chat with your washer/dryer and robotic vacuum cleaner. It just announced you’ll soon be able to use the Line messaging app and a new service called HomeChat...
View ArticleHow to Get Rid of a Stiff Neck
A stiff neck isn’t usually an indication of a serious medical problem, but it can impede your daily activities and make it hard to get to sleep. Although most often caused by poor posture at work, a...
View ArticleCES 2014 preview: Tablets and laptops
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View ArticleTCL’s $330 Idol X+ boasts 2GHz octa-core chip, Bluetooth activity tracker
While some of us are still recovering from holiday, the TCL folks in China — whose products are better known under the Alcatel brand in many other countries — have gone ahead and launched a new phone....
View ArticleLG mum on smarwatch rumors but confirms that a wearable device is coming
Amidst rumors of 2K displays and octa-core CPUs for the LG G3, the Korea Herald has just added another: the upcoming smartphone will come with a G-Arch smartwatch and G-Health fitness band. The...
View ArticleDigitally simulated worm wriggles for the first time (video)
It’s relatively easy to simulate life in an abstract sense, but it’s tricky to do that cell-by-cell — just ask the OpenWorm Project, which has spent months recreating a nematode in software. However,...
View ArticleHow to Turn Your Kindle Fire Into a Totally Kid-Friendly Tablet with FreeTime
Kindle FreeTime is, hands down, the most sophisticated and easy to use parental-control tool available in the tablet market. Read on as we show you how to set it up, access the vast FreeTime Unlimited...
View ArticleSamsung’s latest developer kit lets you control appliances from your TV
Ever wish you could turn on the air conditioning without leaving the couch? Samsung’s new Smart TV SDK 5.0 will give you the luxury of being that lazy. The programming kit gives the TV control over...
View ArticleTegra Note 7 gets updated with Android 4.3 and camera enhancements
A few things were missing from NVIDIA’s Tegra Note 7 when it launched a month and a half ago, but the company promised that users would get a timely update that filled in some of the holes. That...
View ArticleLG mum on smartwatch rumors but confirms that a wearable device is coming
Amidst rumors of 2K displays and octa-core CPUs for the LG G3, the Korea Herald has just added another: the upcoming smartphone will come with a G-Arch smartwatch and G-Health fitness band. The...
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