‘Star Trek and Star Wars’ Tractor Beam Invented!

November 3, 2015

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Eat your heart out Captain Kirk – tractor beam that uses SOUND can hold, move and even rotate objects without physical contact. We’ve all seen tractor beams in science fiction films from Star Trek to Star Wars to pull in smaller ships, but now a UK based team has developed an actual tractor beam that works. A sonic tractor beam Researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Sussex, in collaboration with Ultrahaptics, put together 64 miniature loudspeakers to create high-pitch…

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Halloween: 7 Strange Photos From Google Maps

October 28, 2015

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To mark Halloween, we trawled the internet and found these odd images from pigeon masked people and more sourced from Google Maps, Street View and Google Earth! I want to beak free… you might want to hurry along this path if you saw this group of pigeon haired people. This image is from Japan. The field of scarecrows… this might keep the birds away. Image from Kainuu in Finland. Shaping up in the desert with this odd triangle in Arizona, US.…

Is Technology Killing The Road Map?

October 27, 2015

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Millions of people in the UK are clueless when it comes to using a road map instead preferring to rely on technology. And the switch has been partially blamed for leaving huge numbers of people simply unable to identify where some of the country’s most famous landmarks are, such as Big Ben in London, according to new research. More than one in 10 (15 per cent) UK adults have never used a road map and 2.5 million of those wouldn’t…

007 Spectre-acular Gadgets To Delight Any Spy

October 22, 2015

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From 7dayshop.com with love, we present a rundown of 7 Quality gadgets essential for any everyday mission! 1. Memory Stick Keep all those top files and data securely stored and with you at all times. USB flash drives are compact, easy to use and can 256GB storage capacity. That’s a lot of storage for photos, movies, files, music and more. To see the full range now available at 7dayshop.com, click here or on the photo below. 2. In Car Camera Record all…

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Back To The Future Day: October 21 – The Day Marty McFly Arrived In 2015

October 20, 2015

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Great Scott! Here’s 7 things that Back To The Future II correctly and wrongly predicted about 2015! Starring Michael J Fox as Marty McFly, the Back To The Future film franchise about a time travelling teenager has to be one of the 20th century’s most iconic films. It has spawned an army of fans and even it’s own official website and hashtag #BTTF2015! But just what did it get right when it imagined what life would look like in 2015 when…

Can’t Remember Phone Numbers – Blame The Internet!

October 7, 2015

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Many of us have to look up phone numbers that we might once have remembered and it’s the internet’s fault, says a new study. Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab surveyed 6,000 consumers agred 16 and above in six European countries and found that more than half of adults (up to 60 percent) could recall their home phone number from when they were aged 10. But they couldn’t remember their children’s numbers (53 percent) or work (51 percent) without looking up the number…

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Computers Set To Get A Lot Faster – Here’s Why

October 6, 2015

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Quantum computing breakthrough could could help pave the way to artificial intelligence and other transformative developments, some people believe Researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have used affordable silicon, the material already used in chips for our smartphones, computers and tablets. The news is important because regular computers read data as binary bits – 0 or 1 – but quantum computing allows for a quantum bit – a qubit – to exist in both states at once thanks to…

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How To Use Electricity In The Air To Power Devices

October 1, 2015

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Way of harvesting energy in the air from wireless and broadcast networks to power low energy devices unveiled. The ‘Freevolt’ technology collects radio frequency energy from networks such as 4G, WiFi and digital TV to power devices such as wearables and sensors that form part of the “internet of things” without needing to plug them in, according to the British entrepreneur who recently demonstrated the system. “It doesn’t require any extra infrastructure. It doesn’t require us to transmit any extra…

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Apple Sells Over 13 MILLION New iPhone 6s & 6s Plus In Just 3 DAYS

September 29, 2015

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Wow! Record sales of latest iPhone models beat previous first weekend sale results by millions of units. Apple boss Tim Cook hailed the figures as “phenomenal” after beating last year’s 10 million unit sales record by more than three million, although several reports have pointed out that the comparison is somewhat distorted by the fact that China was not included in the initial rollout of the iPhone 6. Have You Bought A New Iphone 6S or 6S Plus? Mr Cook…

5 ‘Incredible’ Science Discoveries That Will Make You Laugh And Then Think!

September 21, 2015

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Discovery of the word found in every human language, how to partially un-boil an egg, where the worst place to be stung by a bee and more amazing research is recognised in annual awards. The Ig Nobel Prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual and honour the imaginative and fire people’s interest in science, medicine and technology. The 2015 awards include the literature prize for a team that discovered that the word “huh” or its equivalent seems to exist in every…

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