It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a flying car. Terrafugia has been working on its Transition flying car for a few years and now it’s ready for takeoff. In development since 2006, the flying car is the finished product of a team of MIT engineers who have labored for years to gain the necessary…
“Facebook is so annoying.” How many times have you heard that sentiment this past year? We bet a lot, because more and more people seem to be getting tired of the social media platform, especially young people. We’ve noticed a nationwide annoyance with Facebook over 2013. The company even admitted in October that younger teens…
Men’s slim fit shirts are currently the height of fashion for work wear, dinner and evening wear and even for more casual outing such as a party or visiting friends. Unfortunately, being fashionable doesn’t mean they are easy to pick out or to wear. Men’s slim fit shirts are narrower in the shoulders and chest…
I remember a particular neighbor of mine, many years ago, was trying to get a son and in that effort, produced 6 baby girls in a row. Fortunately, for the mother, who was tired of 6 continuous pregnancies, the seventh one was a baby boy. I remember because the celebrations in that house continued for…
In what is being touted as the world’s first case of ‘robot suicide’, a house bot fed up of its tedious job of cleaning has ended its life by climbing onto a kitchen hotplate and destroying itself in a blaze. The android in an Austrian household had to clean up some spilt cereal when it…
Imagine a world where all you had to do to receive a free cup of delicious, steaming hot.This is a coffee vending machine at the O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg. It was created for a marketing campaign by Dutch coffee company Douwe Egberts and South African ad agency Direct. The machine contains a camera…
Thanks to Singapore-based startup U2opia Mobile, users of low-cost phones in areas devoid of a mobile data connection will be able to access a stripped-down version of the social network. Twitter, the leading social messaging platform, has tied up with U2opia Mobile, a Singapore-based startup to make its service available to users with basic smartphones…
We’ve all made paper planes as kids, and sometimes even as adults when there’s just nothing better to do. The fun part about making a paper plane is not only trying to make it look cool, but also trying to design it in such a way that it will fly straight and true, as opposed…
Germany’s aviation company e- Volo on 17 November 2013 successfully tested the first helicopter which is noiseless and emission-free named- Volocopter. The Volocopter is an environmentally friendly and emission-free private helicopter. About the Green Helicopter The helicopter, named Volocopter, developed by the German company e-volo, two seat prototype made it earlier voage in kalsruhe, Germany.…
The famous media player Winamp will shut down next month, over 15 years after its initial release. Though Winamp eventually lost popularity, in the late ’90s and early 2000s it was one of the go-to media players for listening to local music or radio…