The Tesla Model X is the safest SUV ever built

The American National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has just given the Tesla Model X its highest-ever rating for any SUV style vehicle. In fact, the Model X, the biggest vehicle in the Tesla stable, scored 5/5 stars in every category evaluated by the Administration. Even more impressive is that the Model X is the second […]

World’s first passenger drone to operate over Dubai this summer!

Ehang 184

It was just last year (2016) when intelligent aerial vehicle company, Ehang, unveiled its human-sized, single-rider drone to the industry in Las Vegas. Known as the Ehang 184, the quadcopter was built with the goal of “providing [a] medium-short distance communication and transportation solution” in the future. It can carry one passenger weighing up to 220 pounds (100 kg) and a small […]

Point and Blink with Smart Contact Lenses

We’ve seen it in James Bond, X-Men and spy movies like Mission Impossible. The heroes get to use the most advanced and futuristic technology to record and steal ‘the baddie’s’ data. And we are fascinated, mainly because such brilliant concepts take us to a FantasyLand of the impossible. Well,  it’s mission impossible no more for us, mere mortals. […]

Blind Mum-to-be gets to ‘See’ Unborn Son

Tatiana listens to her unborn son’s heartbeat during her ultrasound procedure. Love is blind. This is especially true for blind mum-to-be, Tatiana Guerra. Arriving for her ultrasound procedure, Tatiana expected only to hear the heartbeat of her unborn son, Murilo. Despite not being able to see an image of him in her womb as sighted mothers would, […]

Tesla’s Model X rewrites more than the SUV rule book!

The tech revolution is in full force in the automotive industry, but Tesla remains at the bleeding edge. In fact, at the Model X release, CEO Elon Musk stated: “If we had known the true engineering costs and complexity, we would have done fewer things.” Released in late 2015, two years later than planned, the […]

How to store 360 terabytes for around 14 billion years!

360 terabytes stored in five dimensions!

OK, right now, most of us may not need to store 360 terabytes of data. And the tax office here in Australia only requires you to keep your files for a maximum of seven years. But this technology may just find a use in your home regardless. Imagine having an inter-generational record of people and events […]

True DSLR quality just got better, faster and much cheaper

Better, faster, cheaper! The ultimate DLSR camera from startup, Light

As any photographer will tell you, the biggest challenge with DSLR photography is bulk. The camera body is bulky but you then need to add the lens. And if you’re a serious photographer, you may have three or fours lenses. So now you have a camera bag to tote them all in. And then when […]

Self-Balancing Wheelchair That Climbs and Descends Stairs Automatically

Self-Balancing Wheelchair

It’s not the first ever developed wheelchair in history, but it definitely is the best answer to one of the disabled people’s major concerns. Stairs are the number one enemy of wheelchair users. And though ramps are made for them, not all places and buildings are equipped with it. Sometimes even, existing structures are built in a way that […]

Breakthrough creates a metal roof cooler than the surrounding air!

A roofing material that REDUCES temperatures!

One of the really big myths is that metal roofs make a house hotter than other roof types. Anyone who has spent time on a tile roof knows that every roof – with the exception of thatched and green roofs, gets hellishly hot. And that heat radiates straight into your roof space and then continues into […]

The future of PC’s

PC sales, both desktop and laptop, are in decline. There’s good reason… that tablet you’re using and your smartphone are already more powerful than the PC you bought just three or four years ago. And they’re a fraction of the size, cheaper, more robust yet offer resolutions that make many desktops and laptops look very […]