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An Iranian Scientist Has Invented A Time Machine (So He Says)
Ali Razeghi, an Iranian scientist who is the managing director of Iran’s Centre for Strategic Inventions, has done something only the great Doc Brown has done: he’s created a time machine. But unlike Doc’s DeLorean, Razeghi’s “The Aryayek Time travelling Machine” can only take you to the future. What are we waiting for? Let’s go!
This Is The Exact Date When Our Computer World Ends
The world didn’t end last Friday just like the world didn’t end in the year 2000, with failing computers deleting bank accounts and crashing aeroplanes. That doesn’t mean the world isn’t going to end. It will. And if we keep our current operating systems, this is the exact date when all goes poof: 15:30:08 UTC on December 4th of the Year of Our Lord 292,277,026,596.
Lytro Founder On The Ultimate Question: When Will Smartphones Have Light-Field?
Rarely am I given the opportunity to interview a genius. Someone who has really shaken up the tech world. So, when the opportunity to interview the founder and inventor of Lytro Cameras, Dr Ren Ng, presented itself I leapt at the chance. One thing is for sure: the man — like his iconic camera — does not disappoint. His is a story that will change the way you take photos. Pull focus with us.
How Science Fiction Is Influencing Smartphones Of The Future
It has been said that a circle has no end, but where did it begin? Take the circle of art and technology, for example: which one influences the other more, and which one came first? Is it just one big feedback loop where science fiction will always conceptualise technology, or do technologists and developers dramatise art in their own creations? Will a visual effects studio ever be contracted to create the next version of Android, iOS or Windows? So many beautiful interfaces are spied in films, but what are the chances of the next big thing being something from a movie?
Our Dystopian Future Looks Kind Of Awesome
Pleix (you know, the same group responsible for that dog vid) was asked to put together its visions of the future. What it produced was nothing short of frightening: Non existent beaches, never-ending traffic, human-animal hybrids, pink slime, green slime, red slime, raspberry slime, and screens! SO MANY SCREENS!!!
Celluon Magic Cube Laser Keyboard Review: You’re Ruining The Future For Everyone
When I was a kid, I was promised a future loaded with flying cars, holographic movies, interactive billboards and crazy new ways of engaging with super-powered computers. A few of those I’m still yet to receive, but one of them landed on my desk the other week for review: a laser projection keyboard. Little did I realise that it was just another broken promise waiting to happen. Let me explain.
The Nexus Q Is Also A Magic 8-Ball
Google’s Nexus Q is many thing to many people. A miniature Death Star, an alien being, necessary but overwrought or, umm, a media streamer. It also has an extra, hidden function: it works as a magic 8-ball.
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