Last year the German Aerospace Center developed Rollin' Justin, an articulated robot that was particularly adept at catching balls. But so he doesn't have to play catch alone, the DLR just finished building his clunky pitching teammate, Agile Justin.
Symantec’s Android scaremongering last week wasn’t all that justified it seems. Although the 13 apps that it pinpointed as malware aren’t all that great, it appears they’re actually slightly less vicious adware – something Windows users are horribly familiar with.
We use polyurethane to make just about everything — garden hoses, furniture, the entirety of my local pound-store. It's easy to produce, durable, and dirt cheap. What it isn't is recyclable — there isn't a single natural process that breaks it down. That is until a newly-discovered Amazonian fungus takes a bite.
26-year-old Leigh Van Bryan and his friend Emily Bunting were cuffed and stuffed into jail cells upon landing in Los Angeles, thanks to joking about plans to "destroy America" in a simple tweet to a friend before leaving.
A helicopter's rotor design may allow for vertical takeoffs but that comes at a price — the backwards moving blade counteracts the helicopter's forward momentum, causing it to stall at high speeds. But one German firm believes that outfitting the blades with bumps inspired by the fins of humpback whales will speed whirly-bird flights significantly.
RIM’s desperately looking to keep BlackBerry users from switching to the wiles of Android, iOS and Windows Phone. It’s attempting to keep users locked to their BlackBerrys with a trade-in scheme that’ll give you up to £106 for your old BlackBerry.
Everyone who drives a car eventually comes into a close encounter with a lamp post. Backing up, trying to parallel park, hey, it happens to all of us. And that's totally okay. What's NOT okay is if you're a pilot and you crash your freaking plane into a lamp post. How does that even happen?
Part of why Special K — the drug, not the cereal — has become so massively popular on the club scene is because of its ability to instantly improve the user's mood. Now doctors in Texas are studying if that effect can help treat cases of severe depression.
One of the senior marketing staff of Microsoft's French Xbox division has put an end to rumours of any sort of 2012 launch of new Xbox hardware, saying: "What's certain is that there will be nothing new in 2012."
Rejoice! Lego has sent us all the official images of all the Lego Lord of the Rings minifigs. They include the first look of the awesome Gollum, the Ringwraiths, the Uruk-hais, Moria Orcs and the Mordor Orcs.
As well as that interesting PAYG streaming TV service it'll have ready during 2012, Sky has also announced plans to add a high-speed fibre product to its broadband options.
Sky has a very interesting new TV product lined up for 2012, which will allow those who don't currently subscribe to its satellite TV service to watch some of its more popular shows over the web on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Most screen protectors are just a thin layer of flexible plastic that do an adequate job at shrugging off scratches. But they're no where near as tough as Spigen's new GLAS.t which adds another layer of glass for maximum protection.
Nice password you got there! Super complicated, I love it. You know who else loves it? Computers! Because by carefully crafted a string of alphanumerical gibberish that you need tattooed on your palm to remember, you've made a password much easier to crack than, say, four simple unrelated words.
I, like the Canadian animator Joel Furtado, would like to see Nintendo do an HD sequel to The Wind Waker. Sadly it’s never going to happen. But unlike me, Joel has talent, so decided to make his own awesome “The Legend of Zelda: The Lost Oracle” trailer.
