Mobile

How To Set Up A Fully Automated App And Settings Backup On Your Jailbroken iDevice

Wouldn’t it be great if iOS fully backed up your data, and did so wirelessly and automatically, without requiring you to plug in and sync? As with many features iOS is lacking by default, you can achieve this goal by jailbreaking. Here’s how to set up a fully automated, wireless backup on your jailbroken iDevice.


March 4, 2011
Gadgets

Automatically Launch Android’s Music Player When You Plug In Your Headphones (and More)

Android: Want to start your music app every time you plug in your headphones? Want to start tethering as soon as you hook up the USB cable? Plug In Launcher will auto-start any app you want whenever you plug something in.


January 1, 2011
Gadgets

Sushi Restaurant Uses Sushi Robots And Control Centers To Cut Costs

Kura, a sushi chain, focuses on efficiency and turning a profit. So much so that they’ve eschewed traditional sushi chefs for sushi robots, a large staff of waiters for conveyor belts and restaurant managers for a control centre with video link.


December 4, 2010
Software

How To Set Up Android For Automated Wi-Fi Syncing With doubleTwist

The AirSync upgrade to doubleTwist and its Android app is really cool — press a button, and music, pictures, and videos sync across Wi-Fi. You can move past the button, though, and have your Android sync everything wirelessly on a regular schedule.


October 10, 2010
Cars

Google Is Road Testing Cars That Drive Themselves

This is not a Google Street View truck. It’s actually a self-driving car. The car is part of a new research initiative that Google’s been road resting: Artificially intelligent cars that drive themselves.


September 8, 2010
Software

Mute Your Mac From An iOS Device

Your Mac or MacBook’s in the next room, and the speakers are still up. You know this because its dings and squawks wake you up. You can silence your Mac from any iOS device in one click with this setup.


August 14, 2010
Gadgets

Humankind Reaches New Low With Auto Channel Changer

Granting us a view of our dystopian future, tinkerer Randy Sarafan combined engineering ingenuity and what looks like extreme depression to make “The Most Useful Machine”, an automated channel-surfing aid. One step closer to being completely immobile!


May 2, 2010

Salami Sorting Robot: Automation At Its Most Delicious

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Usually, when I watch these sorts of videos, I’m mesmerised by the dazzling, superhuman movements of the robots. This time, I can’t take my eyes off the stuff they’re moving. ALL. THAT. SALAMI. Things really get mouthwatering at 1:00


March 8, 2010
Cars

Road Train Autopilot Saves Money, Would Mercifully Restore Driving-While-Texting

It was only a matter of time before some compulsive texter found a way to get text messaging and driving together again. Called the Road Train, it’s mean to save fuel, but we know it’s true purpose, don’t we? [BBC]


May 27, 2009

Automatic Dice Machine Records 1.3 Million Rolls a Day

And now, an ingenious solution to a problem that you didn’t know existed: the Dice-o-Matic can make over a million dice rolls a day, supplying genuinely random results for an email-based card and strategy gaming service.