But of course, this is exactly what we’ve been missing. I was definitely talking about this exact problem with the guys at the bar last night. “Why can’t we charge our phones with fire, guys?” Why, indeed, Simon. Turns out you actually can. And as with all things in the world, there’s a video of it on the internet machine.
Local YouTube phemon, Anne Hirsch has been causing quite a stink (a nice stink) lately, and her success has begged the question: Is the future of South African comedy online? Watch the clip, and find out. Catch Tech Report every Thursday evening at 21h30 on eNCA Africa DSTV channel 403. Check out their YouTube channel, here. Follow […]
Robots’ natural enemies are stairs. Climbing up and down stairs is something we as humans have pretty much mastered, but robots are finding it a touch more difficult. These M-Blocks, created by the brainiacs at MIT, would have no problem with stairs though. These modular robots can jump though the air, catch onto each other, spin and roll around to form new shapes, all with no external moving parts.
Fox News has just unveiled its ridiculous new newsroom – it’s clear they’re big fans of Minority Report. Their new studio comes complete with giant 55-inch touchscreen tablets (or BATs – Big Area Touchscreens), an 11,5 meter video wall full of tweets and journalists furiously touching, flicking and swiping through apps with potential news stories.
Samsung have dropped two very clever ads for their recently-released Galaxy Gear smartwatch. While the watch itself has disappointed pundits with its limited battery life, and the fact that it can only work in conjunction with the Galaxy Note, Samsung may have regained some ground in the field of public perception with these two great TV spots for the product.
A Hyde Park High School teacher has been arrested after he sent a picture of himself naked in the bath. This image formed part of a Whatsapp chat with a 16-year-old kid. Unfortunately for him, it was actually the kid’s mother..
Say hello to WildCat, the quadrupedal Cheetah robot created by the collective brains at Boston Dynamics. See WildCat run. Imagine WildCat running after you. The robot can reach speeds of close to 26km/hr, which is without a doubt faster than I can run on a Monday morning.
Are you a car salesman? Know someone who is? This next story might just change your life… In this segment, Seth finds out about a new niche app that makes selling cars that much easier. It’s called JustCapture.It.
Apple have taken a step into the world of architecture with their latest patent – an all-glass spiral staircase wrapped around a cylinder. They have patented the design, method of construction and materials used for the staircase, which leads patrons up to their Shanghai store.
Apple’s $147 billion pile of cash monies now accounts for just under 10% of all corporate cash held by nonfinancial companies in the United States. But it’s not like they haven’t been trying to get rid of it. Apple has almost 10% more cash than it did last year, despite dividend payouts and buybacks.
The next generation Mini is not only keeping up with the times, its taking giant leaps ahead of them and going big on technology. Take the “Driving Experience Control” switch for instance, with a flick of this switch you can turn your already pimping car into a party-mobile by changing the entire cabin’s colours and turing the footwells into a ‘Mini Disco floor.’
The menial job of brushing your teeth just got a whole lot more interesting. Combining the technologies of 3D-scanning and 3D-printing, we bring you the Blizzident Toothbrush. A toothbrush, of sorts, that is moulded to your own personal set of chompers so no one will steal it. A toothbrush that doesn’t even require any arm movement, just bite and grind. A toothbrush for the future.
Ev Williams is the founder of Twitter. And according to the his presentation at the XOXO conference in Portland, Oregon, he has a foolproof method of getting rich via the net.
How the mighty have fallen. Coca-Cola, for so long the unassailable icon of global capitalism, is no longer the most powerful brand in the world. Although, the newly-crowned king of brand awareness isn’t exactly surprising.
It’s one thing running into functional adults born in the 90s, but what about the other side of the spectrum? Try get your head around the fact that Johanna Ramatse was born in 1883. That makes her older than Riaan Cruywagen. What’s more, her daughter is 91!
John McAfee presented his latest project at the C2SV Technology Conference and Music Festival this last Saturday. Dubbed the ‘Decentral’, McAfee’s device will cost less than $100, and will create decentralized, floating and moving local networks for smartphones, tablets and laptops that can’t be penetrated by government spy agencies.
Star Wars fans rejoice, you’re one step closer to becoming a Jedi Knight. Scientists at Harvard and MIT have discovered a way to bind protons together to form a new state of matter that behaves like Luke Skywalker’s weapon of choice, the lightsaber.
Could this redefine console gaming? Valve, the company behind Half-Life, Portal and the Steam digital gaming service is totally re-inventing the game pad. Valve’s new controller, the Steam Controller, will be based around “super-precise haptic feedback,” and will allow keyboard and mouse gamers to move their gaming onto a television to get the ‘living room’ experience.
Apple’s product leak problems aren’t going away. A chinese parts supplier has posted this video, allegedly comparing the body shapes of the fourth-gen iPad and the iPad Mini with the forthcoming fifth-gen iPad. Apple is set to unveil the new iPad in October. Still, one can’t help but feel Stevo would never have stood for this.
71-year-old Professor Stephen Hawking was at the Cambridge Film Festival to chat about the biopic detailing his life. While speaking about the film, Hawking spoke about the possibility of preserving brains on hard drives. He was asked if he thought a person’s consciousness could live on after death. His response:
Bill Gates has finally admited something we’ve known for a long time: control-alt-delete was a mistake. At a Harvard fundraising campaign, he was asked: “When I want to turn on my computer and software why do I have to have three fingers, Ctrl, Alt, Delete?[…] Who’s idea was that?”
Just when you thought the Curiosity Rover was just digging up dirt up in vain up on the red planet, it’s gone and struck gold – well, water, actually. That’s right, believe it or not, there’s water on Mars.
By now you either love or hate the iPhone’s new operating system. Whether you belong to group A or group B, we have some tips for you that are going to make your friends think you are a wizard, and at the end of the day you will be more at peace with your brand spanking new iOS7 operating system.
What’s the problem with ordering a cab in South Africa? Everything. If by some miracle you manage to communicate clearly with the hellfire of ambient noise that is the taxi cab call centre, you can count yourself among the lucky and privileged few who don’t have their cab stolen by loitering students. Why? Because there’s no way to tell when your cab will arrive. But there is now, thanks to Zapacab.
A deaf seven-year-old Guatemalan boy can now hear thanks to missionary, Erin Van Oordt, who brought him to America for a life changing cochlear implant operation. Advanced Bionics donated equipment totalling close to R400,000 so that the operation could be performed to allow this boy to hear. Look at his face as his life changes forever as […]
Have you ever broken up with someone via SMS? Shame on you. If you have, you can count yourself lucky you didn’t do it 26-year-old Quin Woodward Pu, or this might’ve happened to you.
Designers listen up – we have some inspiration for you. After a beautiful braai day yesterday, it is understandable that you might be suffering something of a creative mental block this fine Wednesday afternoon. Luckily we have your back. Check out these 15 quotes from some of the world’s greatest designers!
In 1983, at an International Design Conference in Aspen, a young Steve Jobs (28 at the time) gave a tech talk and afterwards, added some historical gems to a time capsule planned to be unearthed in the year 2000. The time capsule was “lost” for 13 years because of the landscape changing before being unearthed by National Geographic Channel’s team from the TV Show, “Diggers”.
Watch the first take off, fly around and landing of the airborne death-machine sans pilot. The plane carried out its take-off sequence, a series of simulated manoeuvres, supersonic flight, and landing procedures all controlled by two test pilots sitting safely on the ground in Florida.
South Africa is entering the space realm. The Denel Group is creating a high resolution, Earth observing satellite. The satellite will be called the EO-Sat1, and will be monitored by the South African National Space Agency.