Online safety: You’re anything BUT invisible when using public Wi-Fi!
Where there’s a smartphone, there’s probably free Wi-Fi nearby as well. Free Wi-Fi is great for most of us – me included – as we don’t want to burn a hole through our data or our pockets. Nowadays, staying connected to the world through our smartphones, tablets and on-the-go gadgets has become our way of […]
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 […]
This WASP is making 3D printed houses from mud!
If you live in rural Australia, you know all about mud-dauber wasps. Incredibly industrious, they spend the summer months finding wet soil, clay or mud and then using it to make their egg sacs… all over your walls! The sacs are tough and protect the eggs from predators until they hatch. The WASP in this […]
Flying cars… science fact or science fiction?
We’ve done a few posts on autonomous vehicles, drones, flying ‘cars’ and even the world’s safest small airplane, exploring the future of transport. But what is the reality? Will any of these ever play a part in urban life? In this article, two leading academics from The Queensland University of Technology, one of the worlds great […]
Why Apple Should Buy Tesla and Make Elon Musk CEO
It may be true that there will only ever be one Steve Jobs. It may also turn out to be equally true that there will only ever be one Elon Musk. Jobs was and Musk is, a great innovator – both people who truly ‘think outside of the square’, who ask ‘why not’ when everyone […]
World’s first passenger drone to operate over Dubai this summer!
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 […]
The future is here and it’s not pretty for the car giants!
Car sales are booming globally. It’s as though the GFC never existed. The Chinese and Indian middle classes are swelling and they all want to be mobile. Americans and Australians are back in love with their SUV’s. Half the world aspires to own the latest Mercedes or BMW. So why should the big manufacturers be […]
We review the Lenovo K3 Note phablet
Summary: Outstanding 4G Android octa core performance with excellent cameras and true 1080P resolution at 401ppi on a 5.5″ retina screen. Over the years I’ve been a strong supporter of Lenovo products. Back when they were an IBM brand, the ThinkPad laptops, manufactured to IBM specs by Chinese company, Legend, were superbly built and equally robust. […]
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. […]
Maximise the life of your Li-ion battery with these four easy tips
Gone are the days when your mobile/cell phone was just that… a phone. We use them as our camera, GPS, weather station, chat tool, browser and, it seems, a zillion other things. The problem, of course, is that all this extraneous use means that when it comes to actually making a call, we may not […]
