There are plenty of robot arms out there, but what about robot skin to cover them in? A new kind of piezotronic transistor mesh could make for robotic skin that's as soft supple sensitive as your own is, covered in thousands of tiny mechanical hairs...
Researchers at the University of Wyoming have discovered a new lithium reserve that could radically alter where the US sources a key component of the li-ion batteries used in consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and other technology. Currently the United States imports a vast majority of its lithium, but the newly-unearthed reserve — located at Rock Springs, Wyoming — could transform the US from "a significant lithium importer to an independent lithium producer" according to experts at the university's Carbon Management Institute...
Say goodbye to tax-free shopping! Yesterday, the Senate voted for a bill that if legalized, will take away a nice perk we’ve all taken for granted while shopping online. This bill is called the Marketplace Fairness Act, which would force online retailers to tack on a sales tax for all online purchases. The bill will be voted on in the Senate for a final time on May 6.
The bill would change a 1992 law that didn’t require online-only retailers to pay a sales tax in states that require retailers to charge a sales tax unless this retailer had a brick and mortar store in the United States. Right now, how online shopping works is that if you’re shopping for something on BestBuy.com and Best Buy has a physical shop in your state, you’ve had to pay your state’s sales tax. However, if you bought something from Etsy, and the seller didn’t have a brick-and-mortar location, you didn’t have to pay the tax. If the proposed legislature passes, you will start paying that tax. With this bill, the state you live in will collect taxes for everything you buy online.
We're finding out about the new Xbox on May 21st. But that doesn't mean we have no idea what's coming. Here's a rundown of everything we know, or think we know, about the next Xbox.
Microsoft just announced that it's going to fill us in on the next Xbox, alias Durango, alias Nextbox, on May 21st. The event will take place at Microsoft's home base in Redmond, Washington, but streamed on Spike TV. Here's what we can expect.
The full lineup of games, according to a post on Xbox big wig Major Nelson's blog, will be announced 19 days later at E3...
Cornell's new graduate school of applied sciences is expected to fuel major growth in the New York City tech sector.
To help fuel that growth, Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs and his wife just donated $133 million to the school, Ariel Kaminer of The New York Times reports.
The new school, Cornell NYC Tech, is the result of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's contest to a create a new science school. It beat out top-notch schools like Columbia, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, and Stanford to open up a new graduate school focused on computer science.
The great thing about being a Web Designer & Developer is that it is a constantly changing field, full of bright minds that are also constantly changing and innovating. This has yielded not only a fun work environment for creatives, but a useful, informative, and fun web for everyone!
The first official trailer for the upcoming Thor 2: The Dark World is now online.
This full-length trailer shows Jane Foster in Asgard and reveals more about the plot, which includes a new, ominous threat and, perhaps, an unlikely new companion for Thor.
Destruction and battle scenes abound and, as is customary in superhero sequels, Thor and his love for Foster seem to be tested to their limits.
Yahoo! acquired startup Summly for somewhere around $30 million just one month ago, but it’s already bearing fruit. First, there was the Summly summarized version of its Q1 2013 earnings last week, and now there’s a brand new flagship Yahoo! iOS application out today (for U.S. users only for now) with Summly summaries built right in.
The Summly acquisition attracted a lot of attention, in part because it was helmed by 17-year old Nick D’Aloisio, and because part of its technology was based on a licensing arrangement with SRI, the same company that originally spawned Siri, Apple’s virtual voice-powered assistant software. It’s been speculated that gaining access to that license in part motivated the acquisition.
Photo manipulation is an art evolving collaboration between photography and photoshop. Because the manipulation of a photo gives a realistic view of an unreal picture, you have to have creative ideas when making touch. Every photo manipulation tells a different story that somehow, reflects the artists level of imagination and creativity. Here are 30 fantastic examples of Photo manipulated images from extremely talented Photoshop artists that you will make thing again.
You might not have noticed, but Facebook has rolled out a new main logo and refreshed the design of other icons for the first time in years.
Facebook's logo no longer includes the faint blue line at the bottom of its "F" icon. The letter is also pulled closer to the edge of the box...
Beautiful and inspiring business cards design give great experience for corporate business. Today, the business card not only have your company name. The creative design also interact with customers.
A professionally designed business cards can effectively promote your business. There is a good chance that if the look and quality of your card is shoddy or unprofessional, it may be thrown into the trash. So for your corporate identity or business cards printing services choose best printing company...
WordPress is one of the most famous open source blogging tool and a dynamic content management system. The great advantage of WordPress themes is that they are easily customizable, whether you want to add them to your personal blog or a web site. Also there is a great amount of free themes on the web, so that you could peek the one that suits the best and customize it according to the style, content and the look of your project. We have gathered some fresh WordPress themes that might be handy to you.
Adobe just released a teaser video for their May 6th event where they will announce few new products and features. In this video they show one of their new tools for Photoshop – “Camera Shake Reduction”. This tool will allow photographers to save photos that were always considered as garbage – photos taken in a rush, or in low-light situations. The tool analyzes the photo, and deblur it to make it sharp.
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a new lithium-ion battery technology that is 2,000 times more powerful than comparable batteries. According to the researchers, this is not simply an evolutionary step in battery tech, “It’s a new enabling technology… it breaks the normal paradigms of energy sources. It’s allowing us to do different, new things.”
Currently, energy storage is all about trade-offs. You can have lots of power (watts), or lots of energy (watt-hours), but you can’t generally have both. Supercapacitors can release a massive amount of power, but only for a few seconds; fuel cells can store a vast amount of energy, but are limited in their peak power output. This a problem because most modern applications of bleeding-edge tech — smartphones, wearable computers, electric vehicles — require large amounts of power and energy. Lithium-ion batteries are currently the best solution for high-power-and-energy applications, but even the best li-ion battery designs demand that industrial designers and electronic engineers make serious trade-offs when creating a new device.
Are you ready for a barrage of Star Wars films? Disney hopes so: according to multiple outlets, the company has just announced at CinemaCon that it will be releasing a new film in the universe every summer, starting in 2015. We had previously heard that Episode VII was destined for a 2015 release, but with today's development plans have become much clearer.
The latest Man of Steel trailer to hit YouTube gives us our fullest look yet at the new Superman flick, and promises a sure-fire summer blockbuster.
It showcases plenty of emotional drama and tension, a narrative arc that'll suck you in, as well as jaw-dropping action and special effects. Embedded above, the new trailer will get you even more excited for Man of Steel's June 14 debut.
The latest Man of Steel trailer to hit YouTube gives us our fullest look yet at the new Superman flick, and promises a sure-fire summer blockbuster.
It showcases plenty of emotional drama and tension, a narrative arc that'll suck you in, as well as jaw-dropping action and special effects. Embedded above, the new trailer will get you even more excited for Man of Steel's June 14 debut.
As president of Microsoft’s server and tools division, a $19 billion-a-year business devoted to databases, servers and other software products, Satya Nadella has a predictable cast of competitors to worry about. There is Oracle, VMware, SAP and a bunch of other makers of highly technical products that make everyday services like banking and airline reservations work, even if the software running them is invisible to most consumers.
But one of Mr. Nadella’s competitors – Amazon – is not like the others.
The Internet retailer is beloved by consumers for its seemingly infinite online selection of merchandise available for one-click purchasing, speedy delivery and Kindle e-readers. Out of view of most of the public, though, it has transformed itself into a huge player in the field of cloud computing. By renting capacity on the industrial-strength servers and beefy Internet connections in its data centers to anyone willing to pay for it, Amazon has become the virtual landlord of choice for technology start-ups, including the likes of Instagram and Foursquare.
The number of resources for web designers and web developers that are launched every month is impressive, but if you consider how big this industry is, it seems quite normal to have over 40 new resources of high quality every month. Imagine that there are web designers and developers all over the world. Of these, a few create tools to help the community and set a high standard which leads to competitiveness which in turn leads to improvements and evolution.
Most of the resources that you will find in this article are based on jQuery which still is the favorite library that people use to create web design tools, but you will also find other tools which you can use and reduce your work time and increase your work quality.
