Popular Science The site’s tagline reads – The Future Now. Popular Science brings new technology and science news as it is happening right now. Most of it is on the cutting edge. If it all sounds too serious, do a bit of crystal gazing on This Week in the Future. But their richest resource [...]

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Although a number of people learn to speak Chinese and Japanese, writing these languages is a different matter. Most people cannot properly differentiate between the characters of these languages. To help them write these languages better, Skritter was created.  Skritter is a web service that helps users learn to draw chinese Chinese and Japanese characters [...]

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Firefox: Some sites (like IMDB) prevent you from performing certain actions, like right clicking, on their pages. Firefox extension RightToClick disables these scripts, giving you the ability to right click, select text, or perform other actions forbidden by a given web site. After installing the add-on, you’ll notice a new green cursor icon in your [...]

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Once the How-To Geek got a hold of an Android phone, you had to know he’d get fiddly with it. He’s compiled a step-by-step guide to getting more battery life from any Android phone. The How-To Geek’s guide doesn’t involve many additional app installations, nor firmware rooting or algorithmic data schemes. It’s just a programmatic [...]

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Popular Science – August, 1925 The Wonder City You May Live to See How You May Live and Travel in the City of 1950 … The top level for pedestrians, the next level for slow motor traffic, the next for fast motor traffic, and the lowest for electric trains. Great blocks of terraced skyscrapers half a [...]

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Samsung have just run three nights of an amazing 3D projection mapping installation in Amsterdam to promote their new range of 3D LED TVs.

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If you are looking for ultimate control over the quality, origin, and nutritional value of your foods, MIT’s Digital Food Printer is your ideal choice. Called ‘The Cornucopia’, you can use this 3-D printer concept to store, cook, mix and deposit ingredients to create healthy meals, with no wastage at all. The process begins when [...]

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Looks cool. Get it? Refrigerator joke! Anyway, this is Yuriy Dmitriev’s conceptual fridge of the future. OMG it’s made out of Slimer. So, what is that stuff? The Electrolux blog — which lists Dmitriev’s concept as one of 25 semifinalists for this year’s Electrolux Design Lab contest — describes it as a “biopolymer gel,” or [...]

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Travel search site Kayak launched a new feature earlier this week called Kayak Explore, a visual search engine that starts with the basic question of, “I have X amount of money to spend. Where can I go?” The map interface of Explore lets you select a price range, a time of year to travel (this [...]

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The major cool new feature is aimed at folks who like to go adventuring and take a GPS navigation handheld along. Google is unleashing a new version of Google Earth, version 5.2, today. It’s the biggest update since Earth 5.0 added the oceans and Mars in February of 2009–and while it’s not that big, it’s [...]

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