
Tag : light
Lytro Cinema Gives You The 40K Experiance
When we say 40K in this instance we aren’t talking about the Warhammer universe, instead, I am talking about the 40k resolution that the Lytro Cinema will give you. Lytro uses a “light field solution” to…
Sweep Looks to Bring LiDAR Technology to Everyone
LiDAR is a technology normally reserved for those with a lot of money, but a group has taken to Kickstarter to give you access to the technology for a minimal price. Sweep is an impressive device…
New York To Welcome World’s First Underground Park
Countries are defined by land, the same goes for cities and towns. So what do you do when you want to add a new park but are running out of space? James Ramsey and Dan Barasch…
Solar Cells So Small They Don’t Even Pop Bubbles
Solar panels are hardly small things, they are so big that some places even create large fields covered in just the devices, some laws even state that you either use them on your roof or you…
Excessive Computer Use Causes Burst Blood Vessels in Mans Eyes
We as humans are increasingly living in a dependent digital age whereby we are immersed in gadgets. Laptops, tablets and even that latest 60-inch television you thought would fit into your living room, it’s impossible to…
US Researchers Develop Light-Based CPU
A group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of technology have created a CPU that eschews electricity to transfer data in favour of light, which…
New Form of Carbon Creates Diamonds at Room Temperature
Diamonds. Known for being priceless stones and hard to scratch, they’ve been at the centre of jewellery for years due to their shine, price and resilience. This could all change soon though, thanks to Scientists from North…
Smaller & Cooler Night Vision Thanks To Graphene
Everyone knows that green hue of the night vision goggles, from TV or games you’ve seen them help police and search and rescue teams with spotting people from a distance or soldiers using them to gain…
See How the BMW EnLighten App May Help You in Traffic
Traffic lights could become a nightmare in heavy traffic, to the point where you never know if you can send a quick text or take a sip of your morning coffee before the light ahead changes.…

Siri Can Now Play a Helpful Role in Controlling Your Smart Homes
Apple seems to be focusing on making you upgrade your homes as well as your gadgets this year. After it first announced a release date for the first smart home devices, the company is now focusing…
LG’s OLED ‘Wallpaper’ TV Uses Magnets to Stick on Wall
LG’s branch LG Display has just made a breakthrough in the department of HD Televisions. They have shown off a detachable display panel so thin that it clocks at 0.97mm (0.04 inches ) and it weighs just…
The Light Phone – A New Phone Devolution?
With technology trying to grab our attention more and more nowadays, it’s refreshing to see a piece of technology surface that puts the interaction back into human gatherings. The Light Phone is a glorified piece of…
Tron: Legacy Motorcycle Replica Auctioned for $77,000
People pay a lot of money on things they like on the big screen. But fortunately, some of the things they buy are quire awesome. Take the bike from Tron: Legacy for example. Who wouldn’t want…
Meet the Camera That Uses Light to Power Itself
If you think solar panels are the only thing that use photons to produce power, you might need to read this. Scientists from Columbia University seem to have developed a camera that uses light to power…
Philips Unveils The Hue Go Wireless Light
Hot on the tails of the Hue programmable RGB LED lights by Philips the company has now pulled the veils off of the Hue Go. The Hue Go is a semi-translucent half of a sphere that…
GIGABYTE Unveils The Lightest 17.3” Gaming Laptop with GTX 980M Graphics
GIGABYTE announced their latest entry into the gaming laptops with the 17.3” P37X. The ultra light laptop only weighs 2.8kg and is just 22.5mm thin. Inside it packs a Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M graphics card and…
First Video of a Laser Beam Travelling Through The Air
Light travels fast. Very fast. So much so, that it just seems instant to us. But, for the first time ever, we can see for ourselves that it isn’t and that it does indeed travel. Researchers…
New Traffic Lights Let You Play Pong
Meet the ActiWait, the new product behind an Indiegogo campaign that promises to let you play Pong while waiting to cross the road. The concept is the result of work by 3 German design students that…

Fujitsu Creates System to Embed Data in RGB Light
Fujitsu Laboratories has created a new technology that allows them to send data through LED light, or any other light source with a variable RGB scale for that matter, while maintaining the same visual light. The…
Light-Based Computers Are Nearly Here
Within a generation, the conventional mode of computer processing – electron-based – could be thing of the past. The future is bright. Or, rather, light. Refining the electrical conductivity and refractive properties of glass could yield…
New ‘Super Black’ Material Developed By British Researchers
Hearing of a new material that can perform in ways that push the boundaries of what is actively known is typically heard from the heavily invested teams over at NASA, however a team from Surrey (not too…
High-Definition Holograms Might Hit The Market As Early As Next Year
When thinking about holograms, the first thought is about movies and science-fiction books where most have encountered the described technology for the first time, knowing it is just a fictional technological thought or concept. A startup…
Silverstone SST-PB03 AA Emergency Battery Pack Review
Introduction In our highly connected digital worlds, keeping on touch with everyone around us is virtually mandatory and as a result we find ourselves demanding more and more battery life from our mobile devices and smart…
Two Singapore Based Teams Create Heat Cloaking Device
Cloaking devices have always been a subject up for debate, either shape cloaking, thermal cloaking or any other type of cloaking device. Apparently, thermal cloaking has been a subject more people were interested in, and even…
Prototype MIT Project ‘Sensory Fiction’ Lets You Feel a Book’s Emotion
The movie theaters have seen all effects get enhanced, from audio and video, to 3D and special effects, but the plain old book has only seen its years weigh heavy on their pages as they get…
Smallest Label Printer For Android Handsets Revealed By Seiko Epson
Seiko Epson has announced their latest label printer for Android devices, the LW-600P. Coming in at only 24mm this is the smallest and lightest label printer that is on the market. Using Bluetooth the LW-600P can…
Spiders Webs Spark A Recall On 870,000 Toyotas
Toyota are making a recall on a number of vehicles from their 2012 and 2013 ranges due to a problem with a component in the air conditioning system that could lead to airbags deploying in the…