Watch the Slow-Mo guys fire handguns underwater, at 1000x slower speed than real life [Video]
No, they didn't actually fire at 1000x slower speed than real life; they fired handguns underwater, recorded it in a video, then slowed the video. Duh.
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German scientists froze light for an entire minute, time travel here we come
Scientists and science, combine them all and what do you get? Oh, nothing much, just light freezing for an entire minute that’s all. This breakthrough in science and technology was made possible by German researchers who believe i...
Meet RHex, a robot that can do double jumps, flips, pullups, and more
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...
Can’t wait to see your baby? Japanese company will give you a 3D print of your unborn child
Tokyo-based company Fasotec has partnered with Japanese clinics to give parents the chance to touch their baby’s face — before they’re born. The company is using a technology called BioTexture, which generates 3...
This robot takes care of laboratory mice
A robot being developed by a Nikko Technos and Yaskawa Electric is capable of circumventing human interaction in order to take care of up to 300, 000 lab mice. In addition to saving researchers tons of hours it will be much less l...
Researchers discover new technology that allows for disc that holds up to 360 TB data
Researchers have made a breakthrough in storage technology that could potentially make way for a disc that puts the highest capacity dual-layer Blu-ray disk we know of today to shame. What exactly are we talking about, you as? Try...
Scientists are working on using blood vessels in faces to identify people
Scientists at Jadavpur University in India have formulated a method of identifying a person based on scanning the blood vessels in their face. Many of us are familiar with existing facial recognition technology but this method is ...
What if you could close your window and still feel the wind blowing? Now you can.
This is one of the fundamental questions that I have asked myself on several occasions in the past. Outside is noisy but inside is hot — should I close the window or burn to death in an inferno? Luckily, according to a Gizmo...
Scientists are testing the use of nanobots for surgical procedures
Zurich scientists have been building and experimenting with super small robots that can be used to help perform incredibly delicate surgical procedures on humans. The body on these nanobots is just a quarter-millimeter in diameter...
Sometime in the future you may be able to replace your passwords with thoughts
If you are like me then at some point you have forgotten one(or more) of your passwords. Even if you didn’t forget, passwords can still be vulnerable if strong ones aren’t created. What if you could log in to your acco...
What if your smartphone’s screen could disinfect itself from dirt and germs
With the plethora of touch screen smartphones and the number of touches these screen receive each day, they are bound to be dirty and germy. However Corning — makers of the now well known Gorilla Glass — have developed...
New eye implant helps people with partial blindness to see
University Hospitals has recently announced a “bionic eye” which will assist persons suffering from an advanced stage of retinitis pigmentosa to see. (Retinitis pigmentosa is, according to Wikipedia, “an inherite...
Scientists look to fight cigarette addiction with new DNA-based vaccine
When it comes to smoking cigarettes, there’s nothing good about it as such practices are one of the leading cause of throat cancer, but who cares about that when the itch to have a smoke takes over the whole body. The world view s...
Researchers in North Carolina control cockroaches with Microsoft’s Kinect
A group of researchers in North Carolina State University have developed an electronic interface that they can use to remotely control cockroaches. To make things just a little more bizarre, they’re using Microsoft’s K...
Chinese researchers discover new method to store 1,024,000 GB in a single DVD
Most of us have probably moved on to using Blu-rays now, but the old DVD might have just received a big shot in the arm. And I mean big. A bunch of Chinese researchers have discovered a new method that could theoretically allow a ...