We've seen people attempt invisibility cloaks for ages, mostly failing miserably, even in films. But how about hiding something with darkness. That's what researchers using carbon nanotube forests are attempting to do.
Had I been subjected to the same nightmarish labyrinth featured in the Portal games, I would have preferred a more substantial reward than cake at the end anyway. Like these adorable light and sound keychains.
Those crazy Japanese. Never sated, always pushing for the next big thing, and I love them for it. If you thought 4G running at up to 100Mbps or Wi-Fi peaking at 600Mbps was fast, think again. How does wireless 30Gbps without fibre sound?
Engadget's got the scoop on a 5-inch Lenovo tablet. One of the words in that sentence makes me want to vomit bile, and I'll let you guess! OK. 5-inches. A 5-inch tablet is an asinine thing that should not exist.
Not to be out-done by the likes of Comet; PC World and Currys are holding a three-day sale from 3pm on Thursday 24th through till midnight on "Cyber" Monday 28th November. Apparently over £1m worth of products will be discounted.
Google Street View's brought us still frames from all sorts of weird and wonderful happenings in life. There've been car thieves caught in action, murders and phallic projections; but now you can relive your favourite location-based album covers.
Cloud storage is all the rage these days, but do any of us know what we’re actually doing when we blindly send our data up into the cloudosphere, or whatever the hell they call it?
An antitrust case over Windows 95 has just hit the US courts, with judges about to resolve the confusing mystery of Windows 95 and the missing WordPerfect software.
As NASA prepares to launch the Curiosity rover to explore Mars at the end of the month, a small fleet of Wave Gliders, autonomous sea-faring vehicles, have set sail on an equally audacious journey—swimming unassisted across of the Pacific Ocean.
UK mobile network Three has beefed up that 97 per cent mobile data claim, proudly boasting about pushing 137TB of data to mobiles every day. That is more than a few albums and quite a lot of books.
Love it or hate it, Apple's pretty popular in the UK. Everyone and their Mums seem to have an iPhone or an iPod. But you might be surprised to learn that Apple is Britain's second most visited online retailer after Amazon.
Clearly envious of the masses of coverage gained by the US Black Friday retail sales, UK electrical chain Comet is having a sale of its own. It's Five Day Frenzy is offering different discounted electric things every day. [Comet]
Micaël Reynaud, a French animator, turned photographer Michael Jang's black & white head shot series into a fluid animation that merges different people's faces, mixes other people's features and trips the hell out of you. It looks like a gentle, rippling pond of changing faces.
The days of traditional screens could be numbered if the news coming out of Washington University is anything to go by. It's testing contact lenses that could project information into the wearers eyes and initial safety tests look promising.
A group of Italian scientists have questioned those faster-than-light neutrino test results, claiming that anything moving that fast should lose energy -- but that's not what the original tests showed.
Even after spending years solving countless placemat mazes at restaurants around the world, I'm still no match for this robotic micromouse that races through this giant maze in just 3.921 seconds, shaving a full second off the previous record.
