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Circuit Scribe, a Kickstarter project aiming to make it easier to prototype electronics, has designed a rollerball pen with conductive silver ink inside that lets you doodle circuit designs on a piece of paper. After the super slick Ex1 circuit board 3D printer, say hello to Circuit Scribe: another
A company called Synetiq is using crowdsourced neuromarketing to show brands how customers will react to their next ad. By tracking neural activity, the company can identify exactly when testers are feeling engaged, excited, attentive or frustrated. Every company wishes that they could test their ad
Most modern governments seem to be incapable of allowing sensible exceptions to their rules even in instances where the implementation of those rules would be silly unneeded. In one such case, Sweden’s National Housing Board is insisting that a hotel made entirely of ice install fire alarms in
New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón have been pushing for a ‘kill switch’ that would render smartphones inoperable after they are stolen to be installed into smartphones. Mobile carriers have rejected the idea claiming that it
Several smartphones have been announced or released that offer things like full HD display, curved screens, or flexible screens but the YotaPhone is the only one that offers dual screens. The smartphone’s second e-ink screen shows notifications and recent information and it’s always on,
Trimming your beard has always been a guessing game about evenness, and more often than not there are noticeable mistakes made. Fortunately, the new Philips Norelco Beardtrimmer Series 9000 projects a laser onto your face for precision beard trimming. Here’s a trick to see if you’ve trimmed your sid
Winamp was originally popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, thanks to its small download size and flexibility, and this is why AOL acquired Winamp’s parent company, Nullsoft, in 1999 for $80 million. AOL will be shutting down Winamp on December 20th, after operating for 15 years. AOL, whi
Just 15 days after CEO and Chairman JT Wang stepped down, the man set to replace him, Jim Wong, has also left the business. Acer announces that its Board of Directors has elected the company founder, Stan Shih, as Chairman and interim Corporate President with immediate effect. Shih shall serve as Ac
The Inspiration Mars project, which is led by multimillionaire Dennis Tito, wants to partner with NASA in order to use the space-agency’s equipment and expertise as well as a bit of federal money to get off the launch pad by early January 2018. A nonprofit space exploration group revealed toda
Statista, an online statistics portal, has created a chart using data from PeerReach that shows which countries Twitter’s active users live in. With “active users” being defined as those who tweet, it seems that one fourth of Twitter’s active users live in the U.S. while anot
The University of Glasgow has finished a study of 11,000 kids that focused on whether TV or video games could be associated with attention disorder, anger, or other emotional problems. The results of the massive study have shown that video games have no negative impact on children. A study
Valve has announced several new features for Steam in the past few months in celebration of the software’s 10th anniversary. One of the announcements was Steam In-Home Streaming, a new way to stream games from one PC to any other in the house. Inofrmation about the experiment has been scarce b
