Many scientists and experts have been fussing about trying to make a smart phone’s battery life longer. But StoreDot are approaching the battery problem from a different angle. Watch a smartphone battery charged from flat to full in 30 seconds.
Chemicals make the world run… well the entire world is made up of chemicals. If you had to deconstruct everyday food into its chemical makeup, you would be left with an extremely long grocery list of organic compounds that will take longer to read than to eat said food product. Here are some infographics from the blog Compound Interest, which teach you some of the science behind everyday food.
Mark Zuckerberg is now one of the biggest figures in the history of business. These days a speech by Facebook’s CEO fills auditoriums to the brim with tycoons worth millions and billions of dollars. But back in 2005 almost no one pitched up for the speech he gave at Harvard.
When it comes to aerial drones, DJI’s quadcopters are some of the more user friendly and advanced on the market. The company’s latest model features a built-in air traffic controller.
Ever wondered how many spam emails are sent every second? We have spent many a day pondering how many Nigerian princes are willing to share in their riches. Thanks to the site ‘The Content Explosion,’ we can now put this factoid to rest: over 1.3 million spam emails are sent every second.
Here’s something for all the 80s kids to drool over. Residents in Philadelphia, USA, were treated to some Tetris action, on an immense scale. To celebrate the start of the Philly Tech Week festival, a 29-storey building was turned into a massive screen for Tetris.
Who wouldn’t snap a selfie with Obama when the opportunity arises? But don’t try to use it for commercial purposes, you don’t want the White House on your back. Here is the selfie that has landed Samsung in trouble with the US government.
Bless. William Clinton chilled with Jimmy Kimmel this week. They spoke about a lot of things, including Bill’s belief in aliens. You can take a squizz at that, below.
The Universal Serial Bus is getting a redesign, kids! Yes, that’s right. You know how every time you try to plug a USB into a port, you put it in upside down? Yeah, you don’t have to deal with that problem anymore.
With more of us using the digital ether that is the Cloud platform, the technology is replacing physical storage of old (CDs, DVDs, magazines and floppy disks) and provides users with an invisible mainframe to maintain one’s digital life. But although the Cloud may seem intangible, somewhere in the world, massive servers are chowing through electricity.
Here’s a story for all the penguins who’ve ever inadvertently swum through an oil slick… or for anyone who’s helped clean up the beaches after a bad spill. Acublot is a new, very clever way of dealing with oil spills – and it’s the brainchild of an Upington hairdresser… True story. Catch Tech Report every Thursday […]
$19 Billion for a free messaging platform, with almost no revenue. $2 Billion for another revenue-less tech toy… Is Silicon Valley taking the piss, or do they enjoy blowing bubbles as much as a kindergartener? Ooh… bubbles.
When someone rips out a smartphone to take a picture, it’s kinda obvious. No private eye, sneaky paparazzi or sly photographer can snap a pic of their target, without a smartphone sized bullseye spooking their prey. This new light-bending iPhone 5 cover, COVR Photo, solves this tricky conundrum.
Many a planned party or event has suffered the wrath of ill weather. Meteorologists’ long-term predictions of weather patterns have until now been no better than flipping a coin. Finally – British scientists have announced that they have developed the world’s best long-term forecasting model.
We are a bit suspicious of this due to April Fools shenanigans, thus Apple junkies might have to wait for more conclusive evidence. But with the supposed iPhone 6 looking this sexy in leaked images, we hope this is the real deal.
Drones will launch over Gauteng today as part of a pilot programme to relay a live video feed of traffic conditions to news outlets. The project is a joint venture between Kagiso New Media and Jacaranda FM.
Sony has unveiled its new Digital Paper tablet. This Kindle-esque A4 sized tablet is only 7mm thick and uses the well-known E-ink technology. You might decide to stick with the old tried and true traditional paper, while you save up for its R11,600 digital brother.
The series ‘Mad Men’ paints a grande picture of working for a creative office in the 1950s. But was working in this era as glamorous as the series makes it out to be? According to a former receptionist for legendary architect and designer George Nelson, it was.
It’s a scary world out there, and if you have your eyes glued on your phone the whole time, you may butt heads with immovable objects frequently. In an effort to stop you from walking face first into a tree, a lamppost or fellow pedestrian while texting, Apple have filed a patent for ‘Transparent Texting.’
Africa’s booming tech industry is mainly dominated by males, but there are couple of women who have founded innovative tech companies, including these women.
MS Office has been the leader in word processor and spreadsheet program markets for ages, but it was only available to desktop or laptop users. Finally, Office has finally been released for the iPad. Here is a preview of it in action.
In an apocalyptic future, the remaining humans might look back on October 2016, as judgement day; or most likely the advent of the coolest new sporting games: Cybathlon. The Swiss National Competence Center of Research will be hosting a championship for “robot-assisted parathletes” during October 2016 in Zurich.
AND frikkin lasers. No really. I’ve never really trusted Mark Zuckerberg. He’s very pink, and he has inky black eyes that would be unnervingly shiny if they weren’t windows into an infinite chasm of evil. So I’m not surprised that he’s planning to use his multi-billion dollar company to launch a squadron of solar-powered drones, even if he says that he’ll use them to provide internet access to underdeveloped countries.
Twitter’s recent tweaks to their photo sharing experience allows tweeters to tag people in posted photos. So before you get your panties in a bunch about the tagging, here’s how you can disable the function if you want to.
Is dividing your attention between all your different social media accounts wearing your psyche thin? WeCam allows you to connect to all your Twitter, Facebook and Google+ friends using one app, and you can also talk to them face-to-face.
We often take the ability to hear for granted. Watch the moment when a 40-year-old woman, who has been deaf since birth, was able to hear for the first time.
Cell phone crashing is to loud phone calls what photobombing is to duck face selfies. Comedian Greg Benson has the solution for stopping people from having obnoxiously loud cell phone conversations in public.
A couple of weeks ago Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg started a campaign to ban the word ‘bossy.’ But there’s an alternative. Instead of removing a word from language entirely why not start an informed dialogue around how the use of the word? Listen to what these little girls have to say about the word ‘bossy.’
No doubt you’ll know by now that South African messaging platform, Mxit has expanded operations to India, where it hopes to tap in to a feature phone market of half a billion users. But with WhatsApp and WeChat angling aggressively for the same slice of pie, how much hope does our homegrown company have? Check it out.
Apparently the robots will kick off their revolution by stealing our jobs. If you hold one of these “easily computerizable” positions, it’s probably time to look at something like dance choreography, or the priesthood.