The Tesla Model X is the safest SUV ever built
The American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has just given the Tesla Model X its highest-ever rating for any SUV style vehicle. In fact, the Model X, the biggest vehicle in the Tesla stable, scored 5/5 stars in every category evaluated by the Administration. Even more impressive is that the Model X is the second […]
World’s first passenger drone to operate over Dubai this summer!
It was just last year (2016) when intelligent aerial vehicle company, Ehang, unveiled its human-sized, single-rider drone to the industry in Las Vegas. Known as the Ehang 184, the quadcopter was built with the goal of “providing [a] medium-short distance communication and transportation solution” in the future. It can carry one passenger weighing up to 220 pounds (100 kg) and a small […]
Point and Blink with Smart Contact Lenses
We’ve seen it in James Bond, X-Men and spy movies like Mission Impossible. The heroes get to use the most advanced and futuristic technology to record and steal ‘the baddie’s’ data. And we are fascinated, mainly because such brilliant concepts take us to a FantasyLand of the impossible. Well, it’s mission impossible no more for us, mere mortals. […]
The Secret Garage Door: Smart Home Solutions in 9 Steps
The government said he is not allowed to build a garage door, so he didn’t. Or at least that’s what they think! Erik Vekeman, a villager from Zegelsem in Belgium, wanted to convert part of his wife’s former grocery store into a garage. But because the village is being protected and preserved, the local municipality denied him the permit to install […]
Blind Mum-to-be gets to ‘See’ Unborn Son
Tatiana listens to her unborn son’s heartbeat during her ultrasound procedure. Love is blind. This is especially true for blind mum-to-be, Tatiana Guerra. Arriving for her ultrasound procedure, Tatiana expected only to hear the heartbeat of her unborn son, Murilo. Despite not being able to see an image of him in her womb as sighted mothers would, […]
Tesla’s Model X rewrites more than the SUV rule book!
The tech revolution is in full force in the automotive industry, but Tesla remains at the bleeding edge. In fact, at the Model X release, CEO Elon Musk stated: “If we had known the true engineering costs and complexity, we would have done fewer things.” Released in late 2015, two years later than planned, the […]
How to store 360 terabytes for around 14 billion years!
OK, right now, most of us may not need to store 360 terabytes of data. And the tax office here in Australia only requires you to keep your files for a maximum of seven years. But this technology may just find a use in your home regardless. Imagine having an inter-generational record of people and events […]
The future of PC’s
PC sales, both desktop and laptop, are in decline. There’s good reason… that tablet you’re using and your smartphone are already more powerful than the PC you bought just three or four years ago. And they’re a fraction of the size, cheaper, more robust yet offer resolutions that make many desktops and laptops look very […]
3D printed prosthetics have arrived… and they’re affordable!
Close to three years ago I wrote a post about one man’s quest to print a working 3D prosthetic hand. It was basic but it worked and definitely fell into the category of a miracle (in my humble opinion). It looked like this: Basic perhaps, but life changing for the recipient! In the three years since, 3D […]
What will humans look like in 3015?
Anyone paying attention would have known that October 21st, 2015 was “Back to the Future’ day for a young Marty McFly. He only saw what life would be like 26 years hence (the movie was made in 1989). What about a thousand years from now? Looking to the past, we know that we’ve come a long […]