It looks like it’s full speed ahead at Nest: Just a few days after putting its Protect smoke and CO alarm back on the market, the company announced it will acquire Dropcam for $555 million. What could Nest (or Google) want with a surveillance camera company? Exactly what you’d expect. Read more…
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Nest Just Bought Security Camera Company Dropcam For $555 Million
Starfish can re-grow arms; lizards can sprout fresh legs; and hell, flatworms can essentially rematerialize from barely nothing. So why can’t humans do the same? Read more…
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Why Humans Can’t Re-Grow Limbs (Yet)
A product’s packaging is usually nothing but the last obstacle between you and a shiny new gadget, but often there’s as much thought that goes into the design of a cardboard box as the device inside. For instance, LG put a remarkable amount of design effort into the box its OLED TVs ship in, and most consumers will never even notice. Read more…
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LG’s Glueless Packaging Is Almost as Impressive as the OLED TV Inside
On Monday, the internet was all kinds of excited over the fact that hundreds of new emoji were soon to arrive . Now, the Unicode Consortium has published a chart which shows us what they’ll actually look like. Read more…
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Here’s What All Those New Emoji Actually Look Like
Rectangular screens are so square. Which is presumably why Sharp has announced a new technology called Free-Form Display—that could allow screens to come in any space, and reduce bezel size to almost zero. Read more…
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Sharp’s Free-Form Display Make Bezels Super-Thin, Screens Any Shape
It’s almost impossible to think of a time when you had to wrangle a long cord while working with power tools. But as convenient as cordless tools are, they’re useless if their batteries are dead. So this fall, Bosch will be introducing batteries with inductive charging that simply need to be placed on a base station for the power to flow. Read more…
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These Inductive Batteries Keep Your Power Tools Perpetually Charged
Perfecting your artistic technique using a stylus is about to get a whole lot more refined. With the introduction of iOS 8 , your screen will be sensitive to the relative width of whatever’s running across its surface. That’s great news for folks who prefer Paper and other drawing apps to, well, paper. Read more…
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iOS 8 Will Make Drawing on Your Devices Way More Intuitive
At 2, 165 feet, Shenzhen’s Ping An Finance Center is about to become the tallest building in China and the second-tallest in the world. And it’s getting there very quickly: According to a new report from DesignBoom , workers are finishing a new floor of the 115-story building every four days . Read more…
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China’s New Tallest Building Adds a Floor Every 96 Hours
As the number and variety of air, space, and surface-based threats to our naval fleets continue to proliferate, defending against them all is getting harder and harder. But equipped with this new unified threat detection system from Raytheon, our Arleigh Burke-class destroyers will know what’s coming from 30 times farther away. Read more…
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Raytheon’s Modular Missile Defense Snaps Together Like Lego Bricks
Coming fresh on the heels of the news that scientists are successfully 3D printing live, working, mini human kidneys, a new report in Nature is giving another burst of hope to the future of organ transplants. For the very first time, a research team has been able to grow human heart tissue that beats totally autonomously in its petri dish home. Read more…
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Scientists Just Grew Human Heart Tissue That Beats With Total Autonomy