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…
Just a few years ago, most of my online social activity revolved around Facebook. I was an active member of several Facebook groups, including one that helped me and others find apartments and sell used items. Another group was wonderful for organizing midnight movie screenings. And I used Facebook to stay up-to-date on the latest…
A restaurant owner in an Arab village outside of Jerusalem says he is on a mission to save culinary culture by making diners a simple offer: Turn off your cellphone and get a 50 per cent discount. Jawdat Ibrahim says smartphones have destroyed the modern dining experience. He hopes the generous discount will bring back…
AMAZING and UNKNOWN FACTS Ants never sleep ! When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never called his wife or mother; because they were both deaf. An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain. ‘I Am’ is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Babies are born without…
The line of clothing, which ranges from workout shorts to underwear, has indestructible material around the thighs, waist, and crotch. It is, in essence, a modern day chastity belt. But only the woman wearing it has the key. She can lock and unlock it by positioning the hands of a tiny clock on the front…