Toyota teams with Segway inventor to revive innovative iBot wheelchair
Dean Kamen, the man who gave us the Segway, has teamed up with Toyota to bring back another one of his most fascinating transportation devices: the iBot. The iBot debuted back in the late '90s as an innovative multi-wheel chair that gave wheelchair-bound users the ability to travel up steep stairways, elevate themselves to the height of a standing person and even traverse rough, outside terrain. However, with a cost of about $25,000 per unit, the device simply didn't find enough users to stick..>> view originalReview: Jaybird Freedom
Josh Valcarcel/WIRED A few months ago, we told you about the imminent arrival of Sine, the new compact on-ear headphones from Audeze. They use planar magnetic drivers, not the dynamic drivers found in most headphones. Dynamic drivers are the familiar cone-shaped variety you’ve seen a million times—look inside the stereo speakers in your living room and you’ll see them. Within each earcup of a planar magnetic headphone, however, is a thin, flat (hence “planar”) membrane with conductive material ..>> view originalThe “Made in India” space shuttle has just passed its first big test
On paper, it was just a short test flight. But for India’s dreams of building an indigenous space shuttle, the narrow plume of smoke in the skies above Sriharikota was a big deal. At 7 AM on May 23, a prototype of India’s Re-usable Launch Vehicle (RLV)—a reusable space shuttle designed to put satellites into orbit—blasted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal in southern India. Within 20 minutes of lift off, the Indian Space Research Organisatio..>> view originalOculus Kills App That Let Vive Owners Play Rift Exclusives
Last month we reported on Revive, a proof-of-concept compatibility layer that allowed games exclusive to the Oculus Rift to be played using the HTC Vive headset. This week’s Oculus app update took steps to ensure that trick doesn’t work anymore. Revive basically bypassed code checks that tethered games like the delightful Lucky’s Tale to the Oculus Rift hardware. Games still had to be acquired legally through the Oculus Home storefront. Revive just allowed those purchased games to run on somet..>> view originalASUS, Gigabyte tease their aftermarket GTX 1080 designs
ASUS, Gigabyte tease their aftermarket GTX 1080 designs Posted By Alessandro Barbosa on May 23, 2016 | 17 comments The GTX 1080 is hitting shelves this Friday, but sadly in only one flavour. The anticipated entry into consumer Pascal cards is coming exclusively from Nvidia for the first wave, with the more expensive Founders Edition looking likely to be the only card on sale for a considerable time. The likes of ASUS and Gigabyte (as well as many other manufacturers) are expected to launch the..>> view originaliPhone 7 case leak indicates a total of 4 speaker grilles, new larger rear camera and flash design
An unusual iPhone 7 leak is making the rounds today, showing some changes that have not be seen before. An Italian case manufacturer is showing a potential chassis design that features ‘four speakers’ and new layout for the rear camera and flash, including a hole for a larger aperture (via NowhereElse). As pictured, there are two speaker grilles cut into the top of the case and another two grilles on the bottom side. This is not corroborating with previous leaks, that showed an iPhone 7 design ..>> view originalJapanese startup seeks to create artificial meteor shower
A Japanese company is looking to combine atmospheric study and entertainment with its Sky Canvas Project, which it hopes can generate a satellite-based artificial meteor shower for the 2020 Summer Olympics, held in Tokyo.Star-ALE, the developer of the Sky Canvas light show proposed for the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games, hopes its artificial shooting stars will support future astronomical projects in Japan.“This type of project is new in the sense in that it mixes astronomy and the ent..>> view originalPending NASA's Approval, New Horizons Will Explore MU69 in Kuiper Belt
Pending NASA’s approval, expected to come sometime this summer, the New Horizons spacecraft will continue on past its Pluto mission to explore an object in the Kuiper Belt, called MU69 or 2014 MU69, which is one of many Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs), located beyond Pluto. The New Horizons team of scientists are hopeful NASA will grant its approval, as the continuation of the current mission could provide them with a great deal of information about how the solar system was like in its earlier day,..>> view originalGoogle's new app lets users conduct scientific research on their phones
Google's new Android app revamps the clipboard for scientific field experiments. The app, called Science Journal, measures and records data in real time, and then converts that data into easily readable graphs and charts. Users can store several projects in the app, and use tools like an accelerometer, plus light and sound meters, in order to gather information for their projects. For example, a user could record their running pace everyday for a week, and then chart their progress on a line gr..>> view original
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