Developed with the aid of NASA and private company SkyTran, a new “sky pod” transit system — suitably known as skyTran — is set to be constructed in Tel Aviv, Israel. It will be the first magnetically levit...
Google Play Store downloads have for the first time ever surpassed Apple’s App Store downloads according to a report by App Annie. However, it seems that Apple still has the upper hand in terms of revenue with iOS apps gener...
I’m sure we can agree that Samsung makes some excellent smartphones, especially the much hyped Galaxy S4 which has some rather impressive specifications. Recent news has come to light, however, indicating that Samsung may ha...
Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, has recently been putting forward an effort to explore ways in which they can personalize the web browsing experience without users having to sacrifice privacy. One of their latest endeavors is a p...
An open source airplane is being developed in Canada and it could possibly cost as little as $15,000. The Maker Plane team plans to develop an airplane classified as a light sport aircraft which, in addition to being affordable, w...
Meet Supertoy Teddy, a natural talking teddy bear. I can’t believe I just said that. Teddy makes use of a robotic voice box which will operate in sync with the words coming out of the teddy bear’s mouth and will be abl...
This may seem both awesome and slightly bizarre to you but Discovery Channel and Volkswagen have teamed up to build a shark cage which has a similar form factor to that of Volkswagen’s 2013 Beetle convertible car. This thing...
The vehicle in the above picture is the i-H2GO by Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies and Corgi International. It is a remote-controlled car which is powered by a hydrogen fuel cell… meaning it is indirectly powered by water. Sim...
A startup company by the name of Veebot is currently testing a prototype of a robot which is capable of drawing blood. The robot has the potential to choose the best vein at a higher rate than an experienced phlebotomist — t...
Meet Carl, a humanoid robot who also happens to be a part time bartender at the Robots Bar and Lounge in Ilmenau, Germany. Ben Schaefer, a mechatronics engineer of 23 years, constructed Carl using unused industrial robots acquired...
In a recent development, security engineers from Indiana have hacked into the software of the 2010 models of both the Toyota Prius and the Ford Escape using laptops which were connected to the cars’ electronic systems. This ...
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which is essentially the research arm for US armed forces, is currently planning to build what they are calling a drone mothership. The agency has recently announced several d...
RHex (pronounced “Rex”) stands for robot hexapod. RHex is a six-legged robot which is capable of negotiating all types of terrain and the researchers working on this project at the University of Pennsylvania hope one d...
Here on dotTech we have already covered best free cloud storage services, services that can be used not only to backup and remotely access or share files but also for the purposes of syncing files and folders across multiple compu...
The industrial mixing robot displayed in the video below is quite remarkable. Developed by OMC, it is a multi-axis, multi-directional robot which rotates a container along 2 axes thus mixing and stirring much more quickly than con...
