Super Great Toilet Keeper: The Toilet/Goalkeeper Capable Of Blocking 100mph Shots
A Japanese toilet, dubbed the Super Great Toilet Keeper, is capable of saving penalty shots as fast as 100mph. This pure innovation is making a splash in the as-of-yet unexplored area of toilet/football (soccer) convergence.
DARPA Creates Humanoid Robot That Jumps, Climbs And Avoids Obstacles With Ease
DARPA's most recent creation, the PET-PROTO Robot, has the capability to navigate such obstacles as climbing, jumping, and traversing a wall-to-wall hole in the floor. The company says it's designed to perform complex tasks in "dangerous, degraded, human-engineered environments;" but the possibilities of outrunning Skynet are now lower than ever.
Now Carphone Warehouse Has Leaked Google’s Nexus 4 Phone
Oh how we look back on more innocent times when the announcement of every long-awaited product under the sun wasn’t preceded with a long line of leaks. Yesterday, we saw the manual of the Samsung-built Nexus 10 show up on a Korean news site. Now, Google has had another of its products otherwise held back for the Android event on Monday leaked by none other than UK retailer Carphone Warehouse.
Tim Cook Says Microsoft Surface Is "A Fairly Compromised, Confusing Product"
Tim Cook was asked for his thoughts on Microsoft's new Surface tablet during Apple's Q4 2012 results conference call, to which his response, while noted he hadn't tried one for himself yet, was that the device is "a fairly compromised confusing product."
Top Ten Weirdest Mobile Phone Insurance Claims
Mobile phone insurance providers 'MobileInsurance.co.uk' have released data about ten of the strangest mobile phone insurance claims they've received in the previous 12 months; including a farmer whose mobile ended up inside a cow and a lady who baked her phone into a Victoria Sponge.
Google Nexus 10 Confirmed By Leaked Manual
The Google Nexus 10 is coming; this much we can pretty much guarantee, with as many leaks coming from Google HQ and beyond as is becoming annoyingly customary with a modern-day product launch. Going under the name ‘Codename Manta’, we already understand the successor to the immensely-popular Nexus 7 (the best-selling Android tablet) will likely be running Android 4.2 Jellybean and will purportedly boast a truly staggering, Retina-smashing resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels (16:10), but now we might just have the first clues of what it will look like.
iPad 3 Vs. iPad 4. What's Changed Exactly?
Last night must have been a bit of a blur for Apple fans the world over. Not only did Tim Cook and co. take to the stage to unveil the long-mooted iPad Mini, but the company revealed new upgrades to the iMac (calling it “the most beautiful iMac we have ever made”), Mac Mini and lifted the curtains on a 13-inch ‘Retina’ MacBook Pro. But there was yet one more announcement, and that was for the iPad 4.
'Magic Finger' Turns Any Surface Into A Touchscreen
Alternative control methods are one thing we keep coming back to here on NRM; whether it's interacting with a videogame using EMG sensors placed all over the body, or controlling on-screen actions through gestures sensed through a wrist-mounted device. The 'Magic Finger', a research project from Autodesk Research in collaboration with the University of Toronto and the University of Alberta, is just the very latest to catch our eye.
iPad Mini Announced
After years of rumours, Phil Schiller has taken to the stage again at the California Theatre and announced the iPad Mini, officially entering the Cupertino-based company into direct competition with Google and Amazon this holiday season.
‘World’s Smallest Wearable Camera’ Lets Users Record Their Daily Lives
Our lives may not always be super exciting, but even so, life experiences come and go without a moments notice. Once special moments are consigned to memory, and later often forgotten completely. And this is where a new Kickstarter project comes in.
13" Macbook Pro With Retina Display Announced
Phil Schiller has taken to the stage at the California Theatre and announced an upgraded 13" Macbook Pro with Retina Display.
EE Announces 4G Price Tarriffs
Ahead of its official UK launch on October 30th, EE have revealed their variety of phone, SIM only and mobile broadband price plans for its 4G LTE network.
Smartphone prices available at launch along with contract tarriffs are as follow
Needlessly Sexist? Fujitsu Unveils Laptop 'Designed By Women, For Women'
In Fujitsu’s latest line-up of Windows 8 laptops, an obscurity stuck out like a sore thumb. For one featured within the line-up was called 'Floral Kiss', which the company itself now describes as being built under the direction of its female employees. Tailored to the female audience, forget 'Inspired by nature, built for humans', this really is a case of designed by women, for women.
"Patent Trolls" Are Killing The Tech Industry
Research conducted by The US Government Accountability Office shows that the infamous trend of "Patent Wars" in the technology industry are holding back innovation from the market, with a rising number of "Patent Trolls" making some easy money out of companies through the courts or via settlement.
James Dyson Award Finalists Revealed. A Bright Future For Design Technology
Fifteen project finalists the design-focussed James Dyson Award have been shortlisted by a panel of high-profile designers, engineers, academics and journalists. They will now be judged by the aforementioned Founder and designer of the iconic Dyson vacuum cleaner, where a winner and two runners-up will be selected.
Beer Can Keyboard Created Using Raspberry Pi And Arduino
Robofun Create have built a universal keyboard using 44 Staropramen beer cans as the keys, proving that potential uses for the likes of Arduino and Raspberry Pi are only limited by the creativity of those who use them...or their livers in this particular example.
US Navy's Humanoid Robot Dances Gangnam Style
The CHARLI-2 Humanoid, created by Virginia Tech and used for US Naval Research to become a potential future war machine, has continually demonstrated amazing stability and speed in walking. And now, giving an entirely new meaning to a 'warrior dance,' he also dances Gangnam Style.
Is Pheed The New Twitter?
Hand-picking features from a wide-range of the most popular social networks across the web (from Facebook, Tumblr, SoundCloud, to of course Twitter), ‘Pheed’ is all set to become the new Internet darling; having already picked up over 250,000 unique users and celebrities alike in just days, with Paris Hilton, David Guetta, Miley Cyrus and Chris Brown a few noteworthy names.
Apple Appeal Fails, Ordered To Run Samsung ‘Apology’ Ads
In the latest verdict in a long line of patent disputes between the two technology giants, a UK judge has sided in favour of Samsung in an ongoing case over design patents relating to the iPad. With it, Apple will be ordered to run advertisements in British newspapers and magazines, as well as its website, stating that Samsung did not infringe Apple’s design patents.
Has Microsoft's Surface Been Priced Out Of The Market?
'Tablet talk' is becoming ever-more regular around these parts. Sleek, black, slate-like tablet PC's seem to be everywhere these days. From the top-end range featuring Apple's iPad and Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 all the way down to the likes of ASUS's lovingly-refined Nexus 7 and Amazon's up and coming Kindle Fire HD, there's not a consumer electronic in sight that has appeared to have such an explosive arrival onto the scene.