Here’s a funny one from the Tokyo Motor Show. Daihatsu’s squarish concept EV van, dubbed the FC ShowCase, is basically a spacious four-seater packing plenty of goodies: a giant wing door, some blue lights on the wheels, an LED panel on the left skirt, side-view cameras instead of mirrors, a funky touch panel steering wheel, [...]
A cheaper version of iPhone 4, sporting only 8 GB of memory, is slated to hit the market within several weeks, Reuters reports citing two unnamed industry sources. Currently, the iPhone 4 is available with either 16 or 32 GB of storage space. Although details are scarce, this report seems to be different from rumors [...]
it is now official that google has agreed to buy motorola mobility for $12.5 billion. Seems like monile war growing stronger after Microsoft and Nokia agreed to work together.
Inviting your friends to Google+ just got a lot easier, thanks to a subtle change that Google+ has rolled out to its users. The update gives you the ability to share Google+ invites by simply sharing a link. By sharing your unique link with your friends, up to 150 of them can instantly sign up for Google’s [...]
Since the dawn of time, man has dreamed of soaring through the clouds, without invasive TSA security checks and having the guy next to him fall asleep on his shoulder, drooling. FlyNano debuted three new planes at last week’s Aero 2011 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany, which it hopes will deliver that very dream. Thanks to [...]
You may think that the ATM you’re using is perfectly normal. After all, it may even be in the bank building. And you cover your hand while typing your PIN, anyway, just in case there’s a hidden camera. Well, think again.
An Indianapolis woman, Shemicka McVey, stabbed her boyfriend, Maurice Davenport, during an argument after he wouldn’t let her see his Facebook page. That takes Superpoking a step too far. Doesn’t he know he can just erase things from his wall?
Ah, batteries. They always die sooner than you think, right? Not this one! Called Karpen’s Pile, this battery has been working uninterrupted since the 1950′s. That’s 60 years of charge! The perpetual motion machine was built by Vasile Karpen and it should have stopped working decades ago. But when a Romanian newspaper went to check out [...]
I’ve never thought about this before, but when your hands are tied up and you need to hit the button to call the elevator, isn’t it smarter to kick the button instead of elbowing it? Those clever Japanese! Actually, if there was a kickable elevator button, I’d probably kick the thing every single time. It [...]
Peter Jalowiczor is a gas worker from South Yorkshire, England. He’s also the discoverer of four giant exoplanets, according to the University of California’s Lick-Carnegie Planet Search Team. But he’s not an astronomer and he doesn’t even have a telescope.