Have you ever wanted to improve your vision? Well now you can by playing a game on your smartphone for 25 minutes a day for 30 days with can lead to a visual improvement of up to 31%. You’re probably reading this thinking it can’t be true, but it’s been scientifically researched and tested on baseball players whom saw significant improvement.
Ultimeyes doesn’t improve your eyes physically, but rather teaches your brain to process the data your eyes see more efficiently which allows you to see further, with fast moving objects less blurred and more visible. These are important factors for baseball players to excel at which is why they made ideal test subjects when they did this study on the UC Riverside baseball team. They found that it Read More »
At the University of Southern California, professor Behrokhn Khoshnevis has developed a 3D printer capable of printing a house in just 24 hours. The method used to create this is called ‘Contour Crafting’, it is a layered fabrication technology which has the capability to automate the construction of whole buildings.
Contour Crafting would allow any shape of house to be printed straight away. The houses would be designed on a computer using CAD software then the machine would ‘build’ it by printing the parts. When the printing is started, the machine slowly prints the cement in straight lines to build up layers to create the wall. Read More »
At CES 2014 valve unveiled their partnership with various different companies including: Alienware, Alternate, Cyberpower, Digital Storm, Falcon Northwest, Gigabyte, iBuyPower, Materiel, Next, Origin, Scan, Webhallen and Zotac.
All of these different partnerships mean that their version of the Steam Machine will come in different sizes, shapes and hardware specifications. This is a plus point for the Steam Machine as it will lead to a wide range of specifications at different price points, with one that should be a great fit whatever your budget. This is much more flexible than consoles, as they stick to one fixed system specification that limits developers on graphics and performance of games. Although the Steam Machine is not designed to replace consoles, it’s a possible competitor. Read More »
The Google Chromecast was announced a recently and it looks like a neat little gadget, allowing you to stream movies, TV shows, music, and more from Netflix, YouTube, Google Play, and Chrome straight to your HDTV. It connects to your WIFI to do this, and is billed as the solution to huddling around monitors, tablets and smartphones. The question is do we really need another way to do this… People can already do this via their smart TV, their smart blu-ray player, sky or virgin media box, games console, laptop or media centre! With so many ways to view online content through the TV already, surely another one isn’t needed?
We’ve all seen adverts whilst on the move. Be it billboards, posters on the sides of buses, taxis and in train stations but how about a voice in your head? A lot of people would write you off as a little crazy if you said you’d been hearing adverts for television subscriptions in your head but if you live in Germany and regularly travel by train, it could be soon “the norm”. That’s right, German company Audiva have developed an advertising platform that is integrated into the windows of train carriages to pass messages to passengers leaning their heads against the window.
Mobile providers make some impressive claims about the capabilities of their networks. EE says it has the “biggest, fastest network”, O2 boasts it invests £1.5 million every day and Vodafone is proud of its focus on performance rather than “spreading signal over the widest area”.
But anyone who’s ever owned a mobile device knows that this doesn’t always translate to a great service in real life. We’ve all experienced not-spots, dropped calls and text messages that just won’t send.
Things get particularly tricky when it comes to net access. A short loss of signal is enough to cancel a download, and dropping back to 2G is like returning to the days of 28.8k dial-up modems. Read More »
