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A Portland man is on pace to break a Kickstarter record for the most lucrative crowdfunding campaign ever. Ryan Grepper has reeled in $3.4 million in just five days for his geeked-out cooler that features a built-in bluetooth speaker, USB charger, blender, cutting board, bottle opener, and of course
The age-old rivalry between Sega and Nintendo may be all but over, but that doesn’t mean the two companies are sharing everything with each other. Case in point: the distinct lack of Sega games on the Wii U Virtual Console. Case in sad point: that situation may not change anytime soon, if ever
One World Trade Center is just settling into New York’s skyline, but a number of competing supertall structures, including the tallest residential building in the world, will soon pop up in midtown. One of those skyscrapers, Nordstrom Tower, will top out at 1,775 feet, according to plans leake
In a single move, North American panoramic imaging innovator, ImmerVision, has made distorted fish-eye views and camera accessories obsolete and enabled every mobile and wearable device in the world to deliver an unprecedented 360° user experience. ImmerVision’s new 3.8 mm panomorph lens is the worl
Samsung is be planning to introduce retinal scanning tech for its future mobile gadgets, judging by a tweet send out by the company on Saturday. The improved security was hinted within a post from the Samsung Exynos Twitter account and promised features “unique to us,” accompanied by a p
Models, you’ll never have to fear being photographed in bad lighting again. Researchers at MIT and Cornell University are looking to give modern photographers a helping hand by designing a series of autonomous drones that can help light photo shoots. The helicopter robots are equipped with a continu
If it was good enough for Captain Picard, it ought to be good enough for Captain Sullenberger. Airbus, one of the largest manufacturers of large passenger jets, has patented a new cockpit design that could both increase a pilot’s situational awareness and highlight the diminishing necessity of physi
How do you hit a target if you have bad aim? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is known for developing some of the country’s most futuristic technologies, has developed a high-tech sniper-bullet system to solve that problem. DARPA recently conducted its first successful live
Tech startup SoundSight will unveil a limited run of its video-recording headphones this month, well in advance of the pre-order run set for a pre-Christmas release, Twice reports. The Bluetooth-enabled headphones are able to simultaneously record audio and video with the help of a rotating, 5-megap
Planning to make it big in the music industry by releasing a hit album? Dream On. A long forgotten PC Mag article resurfaced this week to remind us that the music industry had changed drastically over the last decade. According to Activision chief Bobby Kotick circa 2008, Guitar Hero: Aerosmith R
Bell Labs has announced it set a record for broadband by transmitting data over traditional copper telephone lines at a speed of 10 gigabits-per-second. The research subsidiary of Alcatel-Lucent describes this as a “major breakthrough for copper broadband” as it could mean high-speed Int
The jump from Sony’s Xperia Z1 to the Xperia Z2 was relatively minor, so don’t be surprised if this familiar-looking leak turns out to be legit. According to a Baidu Tieba user from China, we’re looking at a prototype of Sony’s upcoming Xperia Z3 which is, surprise surprise,
