Category: Technology
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The musical road in the Netherlands that sings Frisian national anthem
There’s a road in the Netherlands that starts to sing the Frisian Folk Song when cars hit the right speed of 60 kph/40 mph limit. The musical road resides in the village of Jelsum in the north part of Holland. The structure of the strategically laid “rumble strips” was built in 2018 to celebrate the…
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Pablo Picasso’s “light drawings”
“Everything you can imagine is real,” said the legendary painter Pablo Picasso. In 1949, photographer Gjon Mili captured the painter using a small electric light in a dark room to paint the artist’s iconic centaurs, bulls and greek figurines. The chaotic images vanished as soon as they were created but thanks to Mili’s two separate…
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RIP Gary Starkweather, inventor of the laser printer
The inventor of the laser printer at Xerox, Gary Starkweather, has died at the age of 81. When Starkweather first proposed the idea of a laser printer to his boss at Xerox, they shut his idea down. But curious and determined, Starkweather persisted because he was convinced of the possibility of making precise copies. Starkweather…
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A robot designed to take care of your plants
For $949, you could own a robot that chases the sun to keep your plants alive. Technology company Vincross created the spider-like HEXA as a multi-functional robot. It turns out one of those functions is for the six-legged robot to take care of your plants for you. With blueprints downloaded from the Vincross website, any…
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The floating un-Christmas tree
Are you looking to think outside the box this Christmas? Look no further than the levitating un-Christmas tree, which features all the aspects of the traditional Christmas tree minus the pine tree itself. Whether by virtual reality or a Harry Potter magic wand, the ability to minimize a Christmas tree into nakedness is a…
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Google achieves “quantum supremacy” with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor
Google confirmed that it has officially achieved achieved quantum supremacy with the 54-qubit Sycamore processor. Writes Engineering Director Hartmut Neven on Google’s blog: Today, the scientific journal Nature has published the results of Google’s efforts to build a quantum computer that can perform a task no classical computer can; this is known in the field…
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The cake server by Joseph’s Machines
Brooklyn-based inventor Joseph’s Machines makes comical DIY contraptions. His latest video shows a chain-reaction machine deliver him a piece of cake. It also includes a baby poking an iPhone, a string of melting butter, and a chandelier. The video took 3 months to make. Piece a cake! Joseph’s gadgets are inspired by the cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg…
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Meet the flying train, a hybrid train and plane
While Elon Musk is helping to combine hyperloops and space travel, the Russian architecture firm Dahir Insaat wants to build a hybrid train and plane that transports 2,000 people at a time. The flying trains reach speeds up to 300mph, not much faster than the speediest train in the world, the 267 mph Shanghai Maglev.…
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Connecting human brains to computers
“You could just think your query and download the relevant knowledge directly in your mind.” Forget Ritalin. Forget Google and Evernote acting as our second brains holding all the information we can’t. And instead, prepare for brain implants where the mind melds with machines. We don’t even have to type, click, or touch anything. We…