Forget about all the company’s work on its incredibly durable Gorilla Glass . No one’s going to care if their smartphone’s screen gets scratched when Corning’s other major innovation hits consumers. Because when their device is covered in Fibrance , a fiber-optic thread-like material that glows in any color and looks like a prop straight out of the TRON universe, they’ll be too distracted to care. Read more…
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TRONify Anything With This New Colorful Glowing Thread
With roughly 12, 383 miles of coastline, the US has plenty of potential installation sites for offshore wind farms. Floating data collection centers like the one shown above will help energy companies and government agencies alike find the windiest, and most effective locations along America’s shores. Read more…
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A Million-Dollar Buoy Will Spot the Best Sites for Wind Farms
After 6 years and over one billion dollars in development, the FBI has just announced that its sinister new biometric facial recognition software system is finally complete. Meaning that, starting soon, photos of your face along with tens of millions of others’ will be uploaded to the national system on a daily basis . Read more…
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The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System
Hell hath no fury like an iTunes user with a free U2 album. For all the haters who despise the very concept of Songs of Innocence casually rubbing up against their curated iTunes collection, Apple just published a very quick one-click fix to rid your life of the Irish menace forever. Read more…
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Apple Just Made It Easier To Delete That Free U2 Album It Gave You
On Tuesday, Apple announced a nifty iPhone feature called Wi-Fi calling, which allows you to make calls off a known wireless network instead of off your carrier’s towers. But at launch, only T-Mobile customers have access to the feature. Turns out AT&T will be getting the service next year too. Read more…
A team of researchers from Princeton University has started doing some very strange things with light. Instead of letting it zip by at incredibly high speed, they’re stopping it dead: freezing it into crystal . Read more…
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Physicists are Making Solid Light
What’s the sound of one atom moving? That might sound a bit like a silly philosophical question, but actually it’s a scientific puzzle that’s now been solved . Read more…
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Scientists Have Recorded the Sound of a Single Atom
As they make their way up and down the field chasing the ball, the players on this new soccer pitch in Rio de Janeiro are actually helping to keep the lights powered when the sun sets. Because underneath the artificial turf are 200 special tiles that work like tiny generators to harness the kinetic energy of the players and turn it into electricity. Read more…
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Players Help Power the Lights on This Soccer Field Just by Running
I learned to love Aphex Twin in college, not too long after Drukqs melted everyone’s ears off. It’s been a decade and a half since then. I’m getting older. Aphex Twin appears to be getting younger. Read more…
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Aphex Twin’s First New Song in Almost 15 Years Is Sick
The bigger a portable charger you carry, the longer your gadgets can run while away from a power outlet. But backup batteries are heavy, so it’s a tradeoff between capacity and what’s comfortable to stash in your pocket. Unless you throw a bag like the Phorce over your shoulder, which makes it easy to haul around your toys, a laptop, and 26, 000 mAh of extra power Read more…
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There’s a Massive 26,000 mAh Battery Hidden Inside This Briefcase