Tech stuff
The Australian consumer program “The Checkout”explains in this video in a very nice and comical way how it is with batteries. From the incomprehensible marketing language on the packaging to the battery that is best for your wallet and the environment: after seeing this you are a battery expert.Hopefully from now on you know exactly what…
The technology of floating water with sound waves is many years old, so the design studio Simplistyk seemed to be making a design variant for your desk. The so-called LeviZen lets droplets of water float into the air thanks to acoustic levitation, a technique that you do not hear but you see the water float….
In this video from Guinness World Records we see the most advanced fidget spinner so far: a team of 50 people at Mitshubishi has worked for months on a spinner that keeps running for more than 24 minutes.This special toy, which can be bought for about 400 euros later this year, was developed using technology…
Check if you have an account that has been compromised in a data breach. This database is growing more and more with every new find. Add the moment March 25 2018 the number of entries are: 273 pwned websites 4,950,953,658 pwned accounts 65,881 pastes 72,666,764 paste accounts So take a look if your account has…
For a Gatorade advertising campaign, British studio Machine Shop developed a 3D printer that uses water droplets to display objects. With extreme precision, drops are positioned in such a way that they can display a person, among other things. See the commercial and how they made it. The commercial: The making off:
In this traditional Japanese inn, guests are scared when they see the slippers roll through the room.No sorcery or anything but a clever stunt from Nissan! And it is not only with the slippers …
It sounds like future music, but it really will not be long before we can download a house and then have it built with a 3D printer.For example, there is a Texas start-up that has developed a method to erect a 60-square-meter house within 24 hours.The best thing is also the price, as it should…
In the American city of Phoenix, Waymo’s cars have been around for quite a few months, the branch of Google that works on autonomous means of transport.Recently some lucky birds got the chance to take a ride in the self-driving car, with the video below as a result.It is striking to see that the subjects…
In this video of Great Big Story we meet David Aguilar, a teenager from Andorra who is now better known as Hand Solo.With the help of LEGO parts he built an arm prosthesis that enables him to pick up objects, open doors and perform all kinds of other actions.Although he initially looked strange at school…
This 3-D printed electric car costs €7700 and took three days to make.The mass production of 3-D printed cars is coming soon. The first will be from start-up XEV and Polymaker, a developer of 3-D printing materials. The €7700 car, called LSEV, only took three days to make according to the company.All of the components…
If you buy Lego boxes with plants and trees later this year, chances are they are made of sugar cane.The green elements are technically the same as their plastic counterparts, but are produced in an environmentally responsible way.The intention is that all Lego parts will be made in this way in 2030, so that the…
It is beginning to dawn more and more that we have to be a lot more economical with regards to the way we deal with our planet.GE Renewable Energy contributes a bit with the Haliade-X, an unreal large windturbine for use in offshore wind farms.The windturbine has a height of no less than 260 meters…
The Swedish industrial designer Love Hultèn has made it his job to provide devices with a retro jacket and sell them for a lot of money as design items.A good example is his Commodore PET 2001, a variation on a computer that came out in 1977.The modern Commodore PET is equipped with a modern computer,…
Although modern televisions are regularly very tightly designed, it remains ugly to hang such a black hole on your wall. The high-end QLED TVs from Samsung change this thanks to the so-called Ambient Mode. With the help of sensors, the surface of the wall on which the television hangs is imitated, so that the device…
The Trash Robot launched on Kickstarter is a brilliant way to make polluted rivers cleaner: it can be controlled remotely by every internet user, where points are obtained if trash is fished out of the river. You log on to a page, after which you gain control over the robot. Then you send the Trash…
A few years ago we reported here about Miniatur Wunderland, Hamburg’s largest model train track in the world.With a length of more than 15 kilometers and a total distance of over 10 million kilometers covered by the trains, it is absolutely a highlight.The video in which this world record was unveiled brings the model train…
On the image above you see 64 motherboards with 128 computers – a great achievement from IBM that breaks the record of the smallest computer in the world.
In this video from the YouTubers from DD Electro Tech, they show you how to turn glasses into smart glasses for a very small price.The combination of an OLED display, a Bluetooth module, a small Arduino and an hour of your time are all you need.
