Food has an agenda. It wants you to eat it, and it wants you to eat it now.

If you dilly-dally around Food, trying to photograph it instead of eating it, its defense mechanism kicks in. It immediately looks terrible in pictures, forcing you to give up, put down your camera, and eat the Food.[Read More]

Here’s yet another idea that helps you save water – the Washup concept features a washing machine that is placed right on top of a porcelain throne, recycling waste water from the clothes washing cycle to flush down whatever logs you just laid. Pretty interesting, but will such an idea hold up? [Read More]

Transcend has just announced its newest USB flash drive that carries a whopping 32GB of storage space wherever you go, thanks to the JetFlash V60. It measures roughly the size of an AA battery and comes complete with a suite of tools[Read More]

Everyone knows that computer motherboards tend to generate a whole lot of heat, so why not harness all the heat generated to push coolers which will then keep the system cool for better performance?

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Did you know you don’t have to be “on Youtube” to watch a Youtube movie?

Instead, you can download the video stream to your computer, keep it there as a “normal” video file and watch it whenever you like. Nothing is illegal or fishy about it, it is simply another way of consuming the data. [Read More]

Increasingly autonomous, gun-totting robots developed for warfare could easily fall into the hands of terrorists and may one day unleash a robot arms race, a top expert on artificial intelligence told AFP.

“They pose a threat to humanity,” said University of Sheffield professor Noel Sharkey ahead of a keynote address Wednesday before Britain’s Royal United Services Institute.

Intelligent machines deployed on battlefields around the world from mobile grenade launchers to rocket-firing drones can already identify and lock onto targets without human help.

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Oil prices hit new record highs Tuesday as a Texas refinery fire and fears of an OPEC production cut pushed crude to settle at over $100 a barrel for the first time ever.

U.S. crude for March delivery jumped $4.51 to settle at $100.01 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, topping the previous settlement record of $99.62 set Jan. 2.

Oil also hit a new all-time trading high of $100.10 a barrel, besting the previous high of $100.9 set Jan. 3.

A weekend refinery explosion in Texas and the possibility that OPEC will cut production next month are driving prices higher, although analysts say there isn’t a single factor to explain the move. [Read More]

A knee brace that generates enough electricity to power 10 cellphones was demonstrated by scientists recently. The brace harvests the energy of a person’s knee braking after taking a step, similar to the way hybrid car brakes collect energy to charge their batteries.
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Railguns use electromagnetic energy to launch projectiles long distances more than 200 nautical miles. Because the railgun uses electricity and not gunpowder to fire projectiles, it eliminates the possibility of explosions on ships. This futuristic weapon can fire solid projectiles at speeds up to Mach 5 or 3,700 mph…[Read More]

Light pollution, also known as photo pollution or luminous pollution, is excess or obtrusive light created by humans. Among other effects, it disrupts ecosystems, can cause adverse health effects, obscures the stars for city dwellers, and interferes with astronomical observatories. Light pollution is a side effect of industrial civilization. [Read More]

Check out this stunning underwater sculpture park created by artist Jason Taylor in Grenada.

The sculptures are 2-8 meters underwater, which makes them ideally suited for scuba divers and snorkelers.

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True or False: We need more water than we currently have to grow more food.

The answer is FALSE

According to the WWF, it’s not the total amount of water that is the problem – it’s how we are using it.

Currently the world is drawing on 54 percent of the world’s accessible freshwater, says WWF, with 70 percent of that used by the global agriculture sector. But 60 percent of the water the sector uses, or 1,500 trillion liters, is “wasted through inefficient irrigation methods”, it says
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Is it a car or is it a plane? Well, uhm, it’s actually both. The flying concept car is easy to handle and can do high speed horizontal flight and vertical take off and landing.

Is everyone going mad or wed better start getting out more? I mean, after earlier today we presented the diving car, heres another crazy concept car. The Cell Craft G440 is a flying concept car, designed by Dr. Paul Moller and Gino dIgnazio Gizio from Cell Craft. With this car sporting seven seats, I can only imagine the discussions: “So, when did you get your driving uhm flying license? – Well, two months ago. – Hmm, thanks, but I walk!

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This modular USB device concept has a very interesting design.

It is meant to be a USB drive, but one that can receive multiple modules, each of which would be a flash drive. Now you could imagine all kind of crazy RAID 8 configurations, but that seems a little overkill.[Read More]