They’ve already cloned sheep, now they want to clone a Beatle. Not just any Beatle though, the most famous of the lot – John Lennon. Dr Michael Zuk, dentist and owner of John Lennon’s rotten tooth from the 1960s, hopes to sequence Lennoon’s DNA from the tooth and use “technology” to clone the Beatles’ frontman.
Are you having a hard time envisioning Elon Musk’s Hyperloop? An American company, WhiteClouds, wants to help you on the visualisation front. They have created a 3D printed interpretation of the ground breaking vehicle, and get this, they did it all in 24 hours. This video will help you wrap your mind around the awesomeness […]
A few months ago Google said they will be working towards providing internet connectivity to parts of the world that don’t have it via WiFi-broadcasting balloons. The project bears the appropriate moniker, ‘Project Loon’. On Tuesday, Mark Zuckerberg announced that together with Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Samsung and Qualcomm, they will be founding Internet.org. This project […]
Two local 20-something entrepreneurs have developed a bona-fide smart phone ideally suited to our local context where smartphones are expensive to buy, and data isn’t cheap. Dream Mobile tackles both of those problems.
Meanwhile in Russia, a 550-ton military hovercraft lands on a beach full of people… and everyone’s chilled. The craft in question one of the world’s largest hovercrafts, the Zubr. It can carry tanks and up to 400 troops when its fully loaded. But what it was doing on a crowded and apparently public beach, no […]
These photos will put your selfies to shame. Check out these insane photos from some of the 2013 award winners of the iPhone Photography Awards. [SOURCE: iPhone Photography Awards]
If you live in Joburg, you may want to pay attention. The City of Joburg (CoJ) has come under scrutiny because of a massive security flaw that shows your municipal invoices to anyone with an internet connection. These invoices include names, addresses, account numbers, PIN codes and financial details. MyBroadband was made aware by a […]
Sick of your shoe collection? Print another pair. Yes, people, the future has arrived. Let’s welcome it in and have a cup of tea. You can now print your own shoes – If you have a CubeX 3D printer.
Cell C for yourself, the power is in your hands! Or not. Cell C’s promises don’t seem to be worth the paper they’re written on. The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa’s most recent assessment of service quality has found that Cell C has the worst rate of dropped calls of all cellphone operators in Johannesburg.
What’s the most you’ve ever spent on an app? We’ve all dabbled in the purchase of $0,99 apps, sometimes even venturing to buy a newly released, $9,99 app on special occasions. Want to know what the 16 most expensive apps are? They will put your $9,99 purchase to shame.
Remember when we told you about the Ubuntu Edge, the super-smart phone Mark Shuttleworth plans to release that will be more powerful than a desktop computer? No? Well here it is. Anyway, Mark may have set the record for the largest crowdfunding project ever!
Dread Pirate Roberts, creator and owner of the Silk Road online drug-buying portal has completed an anonymous interview with Forbes about his growing enterprise. The Silk Road is a website where one can acquire heroin, methamphetamine, crack, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and an insane number of marijuana varieties. Payment is possible via BitCoin.
With the press event due to kick off on 10 September, specification speculation for the iPhone 5S is going mental. But the long-awaited finger print technology is looking more and more like a certainty with every new report.
Tshwane will be the first metro in Africa to be fully covered by wifi within three years – at least, that’s what they say.
From the billionaire who wants to build an 80,000 person colony on mars, create auto-pilot cars, and envisions the a steel tube that will get 28 passengers from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes, comes this awesome video. Check out Elon Musk’s out of this world rocket skills.
Surf videos just got even more gnarly than before. Surfers are being shot from whole new angles using drones. Check out the fresh new perpective in this video.
Apparently, most of you girls out there are wearing the wrong bra-size. Whether its the wrong cup-size, or lack of material around the back, its happening. The okes at ThirdLove aren’t standing for this, so, with a R56 million budget, they have developed an app that can measure your exact bra size from a couple of photos taken of you in a tank top.
CNN has just announced that they will be revamping their website, to the tune of $15 million (around R140 million). Sound familiar? In March, the Free State government announced they would be spending the same amount of money on their website. Weird that a provincial website would cost the same as a global news network’s […]
The man responsible for Facebook chat, News Feeds and the layout of Facebook as you know it is taking his creative “genius” to Instagram. Star product manager, Peter Deng, has joined Instagram as its first director of product, and sees a lot of the same issues with Instagram that Facebook experienced in 2007.
Everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting for the new iPhone 5S to be released. But what will be new? What will be changed? Will it be better than what you have now? These are all good and fair questions. Here’s a list of features rumoured to be included in the latest edition […]
Missing an ear? Not a problem. Not in China, anyway. Researchers in China are using 3D-printers to print ear cartilage samples made from real tissue. And they’re not stopping at the ears – why would they?
It’s that time of the year again. The Earth has passed through the orbital path of the Swift-Tuttle comet, and we are still alive! Big sigh of relief. This has been happening for almost 2,000 years, and we still haven’t come in contact with the comet. In fact, it’s estimated that we won’t come into contact until 3044. Shame, future descendants.
You need headphones that can block out the associated noise of a busy office, namely background chatter, keyboard clattering, the whirring of computer fans, and the endless static from your building’s air conditioner. Why? Because your productivity is suffering. And don’t even get me started on travel
Social media giant, Facebook announced their plans earlier this year to move their offices to the Big Apple. Their headquarters relocation will be refreshing change for staff from their current location in Bank Of America Tower, especially as Frank Gehry will be designing the space.
Is Vine restricting your creative expression? Do you often find yourself thinking, if I could only use my own editing suite, and recording device, and create to the ability that only I know I’m capable of, my Vine video could blow the minds of many? If you want to move beyond shooting and editing your 6 second masterpieces within the app, maybe you should try hacking your Vine app.
LG decided to release 100 helium balloons in an outdoor park in Seoul, each containing a voucher for a free LG G2 smartphone, which sells at full retail for about R8,500. What they didn’t plan for though, was a surge of people (think World War Z) with BB guns and knives on sticks trying to pop the balloons to get their hands on a voucher.
Jetpack received a flying permit which means test flights can begin and the flying machine could be in stores soon. And yes it has been designed for the general public, but with a hefty price tag
Billionaire and chairman of Icahn Enterprises, Carl Icahn was the man behind Apple’s share price increase. Icahn didn’t make a huge announcement, neither did Apple. All it took was a message that contained 140 or less characters of positive news.
German director Werner Herzog directed this chilling documentary which details stories of people who are living with the effects of texting and driving.
North Korean leader Kim Jung-un reportedly toured the factory of the countries ‘homemade’ smartphone, the Arirang. According to the state run news agency KCNA Kim is very impressed with the factory employees. While others think this may be a farce.