NASA’s Oldest Landsat Satellite Turns 40 Happy 40th birthday, ERTS-1. You're officially over the hill. The ERTS-1, the first Landsat satellite, was launched into space on July 23, 1972 by NASA for global observation purposes and has since become t... Continued
Google Maps Adds Panoramic Street View to Antarctica While it might not be easy to move to Antarctica, it just got a lot easier to explore the icy southern continent now that Google has added a collection 360-panoramic images to street view for your perusing ... Continued
Windows 8 Launch Date Set for October 26 We've known for a while now that Microsoft was going to release Windows 8 some time this fall. That still left the Redmond, Washington company with some wiggle room, but they've finally nailed it down to a ... Continued
Apple Forced to Admit Samsung Didn’t Copy Them A little over a week ago, UK Judge Colin Birss found that Samsung did not copy the iPad with their Galaxy Tab, as Apple claims. It wasn't entirely bad for Apple, though, as the judge actually said that the ... Continued
Man Assaulted for Wearing Augmented Reality Headset This incident might seem a little funny if not for the fact that it actually happened. Let's just hope it's not indicative of things to come. Dr. Steve Mann invented what could be seen as a precursor to... Continued
Best Buy’s College Innovator Fund Looking for Ideas Electronics retailer Best Buy doesn't just want your money. They also want your ideas on new products or services that could change the way people interact with each other... and they're willing to pay you ... Continued
Made in America Skillets Might Not Be Practical, But They Sure Are Neat! I would never claim to be a professional chef, or even a cook. But I do thoroughly enjoy cooking, and by all accounts I'm pretty good at it. By association, I have this fascination with kitchen gadgets and ... Continued
From the You Can’t Make This Up Files: Rhinestone Keyboard and Mouse Let me start by saying when I clicked on the link to view this, I actually snorted. And then giggled. And then snorted some more. And then I thought...if it was available in other colours, and if I still ha... Continued
Olympus Announces Arrival in Wearable Display Market with MEG4.0 Google isn't the only one looking to develop augmented reality headgear. Olympus, who has been looking to develop wearable displays for upwards of 20 years, is finally ready to enter the market with the 30g... Continued
The News: Time Warp Edition How many of you now have the song stuck in your head? I know I do. But really...I could have sworn I did a post earlier today, so I didn't worry about it when I headed out with my sister for our weekly "dat... Continued
New Drone Navigation System Could Do Away With GPS After the story that some Texas scientists hijacked a US government drone by spoofing its GPS system, this is certainly good news. A military sub-contractor has come up with a positioning system that doesn'... Continued
Texas Scientists Hack Drone Using Less Than $1,000 Much to the displeasure of the masses, unmanned flying drones are quite popular with the US Department of Homeland Security and the number of drones in use in United States airspace is only going to increas... Continued
