The new Star Wars hardware keeps trickling out. This is the new stormtrooper helmet, an updated model that looks way more modern but also less menacing than the original one. The left one is an actual unit in a warehouse. The right one is a render. They look nice but I have a question for all of you: Read more…
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Why did JJ Abrams make these new stormtrooper helmets for Star Wars?
Most of our devices run (not for long enough) on lithium ion batteries. But there could be a new, old kid on the block—in the shape of a solid-state battery that can hold twice the charge as li-on. Read more…
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Cheap Solid-State Batteries That Last Twice as Long as Li-On Are Coming
Way back in 1931, Albert Einstein visited the U.S. for three months. Inspired by meetings with Edwin Hubble, he began thinking about the Universe differently, writing a paper in four days to get down his thoughts—and now, those first scribblings have been translated into English for the first time . Read more…
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A Forgotten Einstein Model of the Universe Describes the Big Crunch
The FBI’s facial recognition initiative is big and getting bigger . And it’s just proved that it works too, by helping capture a fugitive who’s been on the run for 14 years, during testing in Asia. Read more…
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FBI Facial Recognition Caught a Fugitive on the Run For 14 Years
Flexible touch screens have been “just round the corner” for some time now. Heck, Samsung showed off a flexible screen at CES in January 2013. Sadly, it was just a prototype. The truth is that flexible displays just haven’t been durable enough for mass production. Until now. Read more…
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This New Technology Will Finally Bring Flexible Displays To Market
I’m still holding out hope for light sabers in the future but with our world’s technological limitations and silly allocation of resources, the most beautiful deadly sword-type weapon we can create without lasers might be this mashup of a lightsaber and katana made by Man At Arms: Reforged. Read more…
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A lightsaber katana is the closest we’ll get to Star Wars in real life
For more than a year, Intel’s 14-nanometer Broadwell chip, the successor to its Haswell microarchitecture, has been consistently delayed , due in part to early-stage manufacturing snafus. But today Intel gave a glimpse of this incredibly tiny powerhouse, and the computing future it will introduce in its wake. Read more…
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Intel’s Broadwell Chips Will Make Full-Fledged PCs as Tiny as Tablets
A specific number of variables need to be in place so I can shrug off procrastination and get some real work done. Chief among them is setting the right aural mood. Read more…
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Slip Into the Sweet, Ambient Sounds of Science Fiction
These looped GIFs by artist Erdal Inci are 50 percent surreal videoart, 50 percent performance art, 100 percent awesome—sometimes beautiful, sometimes creepy. Read more…
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Extraordinarily beautiful GIF loops like I’ve never seen before
There’s a very commonly held view that atoms can never touch: bring them together slowly, and you reach a point where they begin to repel. But in this video, Professor Philip Moriarty explains that really isn’t the case. Read more…
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Can Atoms Ever Touch?