PayPal’s ‘Wearable Wallet’ Lets You Buy Stuff from Your Smartwatch

Paypal has teamed up with the Starbucks located on its corporate campus in order to test a new technology utilizing beacons and wearable devices. The ‘wearable wallet’ integrates with smartwatches and upon entering Starbucks, the…

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Researchers Develop Artificial Blood Cells for Human Transfusions

Researchers in the UK and Ireland have produced artificial red blood cells that are fit for transfusion. Scientists, led by the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service (SNBTS), developed the fake blood using stem cells and…

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Artist Upcycles Trash into Tiny Houses for the Homeless

Greg Kloehn is an artist based out of Oakland, California, who recently discovered that what some people consider trash truly can be another person’s treasure. After making a small house out of scraps and garbage…

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Omnidirectional Mobile Manipulation Platforms? Ask Mr. Robot.

Coolest Robot in the World Mr. Robot of “World of Warcraft” fame not only likes playing games, but likes helping humans play games better. Now Mr. Robot is helping manufacturers play better too with mobile…

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Can Your Job Be Done By Robots? This Data Is Scary BUT Intriguing!

Predictions are that by 2049, a $1,000 computer will exceed the computational capabilities of the entire human species. If this is true, and technological innovation continues to occur at the current pace in hardware, sensors…

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Live Stream For The 2014 Annular Solar Eclipse, AKA The “Ring Of Fire”… Don’t Miss It!

We got to experience the “Blood Moon” recently and now we have the 2014 Annular Solar Eclipse coming up. The moon will block out everything but a bright ring around the sun next week, commonly…

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President Obama’s Soccer Buddy is None Other Than Honda’s Robot Asimo

On his recent visit to Japan, President Obama had the pleasure of meeting Honda’s humanoid robot Asimo at Tokyo’s Miraikan science museum. Obama and Asimo talked briefly before the robot got a chance to show…

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No Way… U.S. Navy Scientists Convert Sea-Water Into Fuel!

Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the Material Science and Technology Division have discovered a way to convert sea-water from the Gulf of Mexico into a fuel resource. The technology used is…

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After Traveling 2,600 Miles Across India, The iglide Car Enters China On It’s World Tour!

Two months ago, we wrote a story on how igus stripped a smart car and installed 56 of their iglide bearings in preparation for a 65,000 mile world tour. You can check out that story…

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Sailing Drones Ready to Save the World’s Oceans

The world has come to know drones as aerial vehicles operated remotely, sometimes from thousands of miles away. Now various types of above and below water drones are in use or in development, including the Saildrone,…

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