With thousands of skyscrapers around the world, and many more under construction, the new generation of mega-buildings calls for effective firefighting and rescue methods to keep tenants safe and away from danger.
One innovative evacuation solution is now provided by Israeli startup SkySaver, whose brand new emergency backpack is designed to help residents escape from high-rises. This lifesaving kit comes equipped with a cable cord that, in case of an emergency, is attached to a pre-installed anchor located near a window. When fire breaks out, the emergency device is strapped on with buckles that wrap around the waist and between the legs. Then, the individual starts rappelling down the side of the building. Yep, just like Spiderman. - nocamels.com
U.S. officials want tech companies to help battle ISIS. But in the wake of Edward Snowden's spying revelations, many worry about what that would mean for privacy...
"... a child born today, may never know about cash or credit cards. I mean what are they gonna steal from their mom's purse? Like... cigarettes... that's about it." Ain't that the truth! Kids just don't know how good they have it sometimes as Ellen demonstrates in her comical way by introducing kids to some oldies like the very first cellphone... yikes! Did we really use that? Lol...
iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S III, when will it end? Are there any 'normal' phones left where you can just call someone? Lol.
Intuitive, innovative, and stylish, the Galaxy S III is The Next Big Thing—and it's already here. Learn more and join the community at http://facebook.com/SamsungMobileUSA.
New iPhone 5, New iPad & iPad Mini come together in this iPhone 5 concept must see video. This CG iPhone 5 has a longer iPhone design, iPhone 5 new larger home screen, iOS 6, fingerprint scan, iPhone's new notification center with siri updates and stretchable or rubberband electronics.
Prior to the release of the iPhone 5 official video or the iPhone 5 review, this concept iPhone 5 commercial is set to entertain iPhone and technology enthusiasts globally.
We do hope you enjoy this CG iPhone 5 video whose features significantly leapfrog today's iPhone 4S with Siri, iPhone 4 or iPhone 3gs.
Happy iPhone 5 unboxing post the iPhone 5 release!
Ok, so it's faster than Usain, but who would you rather running after you? lol.
Cheetah Robot is a fast-running quadruped developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA. It just blazed past its previous speed record, getting up to 28.3 mph, about 0.5 mph faster than Usain Bolt's fastest 20 meter split. This version of the Cheetah Robot runs on a treadmill with offboard power. Testing on an untethered outdoor version starts early next year.
As the title stated: a video showing a hard drive working in slow motion, lol.
Here is a previously unreleased video which was shot almost 2 years ago for our
original trailer. Inside a hard drive. Plus a bit of unnecessary
destruction. Shot at 1000fps.
Talk about saving you money! This should make any wasting of that hard-to-reach ketchup a thing of the past!
Any ketchup fan will tell you: Getting that last dollop of the red stuff out of
the bottle is a headache - and it normally just ends up in the bin.
But
now, a radical new bottle design could spell the end of that problem
forever.
The MIT university team came up with LiquiGlide, a
'super-slippery' coating which makes the insides of the bottle so frictionless
that the sludgy goo inside just slides out like water.
The results are
astonishing - and any burger and chips fan out there should prepare to be
amazed.
MIT PhD candidate Dave Smith and his team of mechanical engineers
and nano-technologists at the Varanasi Research Group spent two months devising
a solution.
Burger fan Smith said: 'We were really interested in - and
still are - using this coating for anti-icing, or for preventing clogs that form
in oil and gas lines, or for non-wetting applications like, say, on
windshields.
'Somehow this sparked the idea of putting it in food bottles
- it could be great just for its slippery properties.
'Plus, most of
these other applications have a much longer time to market - we realised we
could make this coating for bottles that is pretty much ready. I mean, it is
ready, as you can see.
'We had a limited amount of materials to pick from
- I can't say what they are, but we've patented the hell out of
it.'
Naturally, the team had to research their market before getting to
work.
Smith, who is is pursuing a PhD in mechanical engineering and a
minor in entrepreneurship, and already holds nine patents, told the FastCo
website: 'It was never really a personal pain point for me, but I do hate
struggling to get sauce out of the bottles.
'I didn't know about the
tapping of the '57' until I started looking into this. It was all news to
me.
'We have all types of sauces, jellies, and jams everywhere in our lab
- It's like a closet full of condiments.'
So why did the team pick sauces
for their award-winning product?
Dave said: 'It's funny: Everyone is
always like, "Why bottles? What's the big deal?"
'But then you tell them
the market for bottles - just the sauces alone is a $17billion
market.
'And if all those bottles had our coating, we estimate that we
could save about one million tons of food from being thrown out every
year.'
The secret ingredient to the liquid coating is a heavily-guarded
secret, but the team promise it is non-toxic and will be FDA approved.
This sounds great an all but we're just wondering about the poor arms and how they will feel after a good 3-4 hour 'workout', lol. Oh well, at least we'll have an excuse to use those hand gestures and look just like they do on the Godfather...
Leap represents an entirely new way to interact with your
computers. It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more
sensitive than a touchscreen. For the first time, you can control a computer in
three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements.
