Wouldn’t the world of gaming be a lot better if it included a bit more sand? Sure, you might never have thought of this before but once you do you’ll see that it makes sense. In fact, a new arcade machine made by the famous Japanese company Sega promises to bring sand to the gaming experience right now. You don’t even need to go the beach to play it. Sega has released...
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The success of the Uber taxi and private hire app had led to the firm starting to offer a grocery delivery service. At the moment, the Corner Store facility is only available in the US. It is an option on the main Uber smartphone app and allows customers to choose from 100 different grocery items. The pricing on the service is said to be competitive and there is no delivery...
You have seen at some point how football team have used cardboard cuts outs of spectators to make the stadium look fuller than it really it is. It looks kind of naff, doesn’t it? Why don’t they just use robots instead? That is exactly what some genius behind the Hanwha Eagles baseball team in Korea came up with. It seems that the team is struggling to get a good level...
A controversial and secret Facebook experiment has led to criticism of the social media giant. The psychology experiment by Facebook involved them manipulating news items, which were then seen by close to 700,000 people who didn’t know that they were seeing a news feed that had been tampered with. The idea behind this experiment was to see if “exposure to emotions”...
Do you think that you could design a video game that would sweep the world and become a favourite of millions of games? Yeah? You want to go to Dundee then. No, really. The Scottish city is currently home to an international competition called Dare to be Digital. This is an opportunity for students to design a new video game that will beat off the hundreds of other entrants. The...
We all know by now that 3D printing has got a lot of benefits to offer the world. From human limbs to Braille phones, the number of useful things can be printed out in this way seems almost limitless. Of course, what we really want to use this cutting edge technology for is to print off models of our favourite Sesame Street characters. Isn’t it? The people at 3D printing...
A new style of robot arm which can carry out incredibly delicate and complex operations have been approved by the medical authorities in the US. The Deka Arm uses fingers that act very much like real fingers to help the user do all of the tricky things which most of us take for granted. It is expected that it will help amputees do things like use keys, put on their clothes...
You’re waiting for the Apple iPhone 6 to make an appearance, are you? Maybe your wait is just about to end. Or maybe not. Who knows the actual fabled release date? A few leaks have appeared recently which promised to show us tantalising images or inform us of titillating details of the new version of the phone. First off, some schematics were leaked. These suggested...
If there is one thing lacking from most pairs of jeans it is, frankly, a minty smell. After all, everything in life is better with a bit of mint, isn’t it? Well, your longing for that fresh smell on your denims is about to end very soon. This is because the nice people at Naked & Famous have come up with an idea which might just catch on; scratch & sniff jeans....
Inventors have been trying to find an improvement on the standard lithium-ion battery for some time now but few people could have expected a fruit would have given them the possible solution. Silicon has long seen as a possible material, because of the huge amount of energy it can store. However, there are some problems with the material which no –one had been able...