Curious Technology Category - Page 3

Ford MyKey has been quite the tool for parents controlling their children when it comes to driving their cars. Now a new tool will even allow parents to control what Sirius radio stations their children can listen to.

Sometimes with all the technological advances we have made over the last half century we forget all the wondrous things that surround in nature. Most recently an X-Ray camera recorded what a lightning strike looks like when captured by a camera shooting 10 million frames per second.

Researchers at IBM’s Almaden research center located in San Jose, California says that mobile calling technology will advance farther than it ever has before over the next few years.

Talk about creepy. Wieden+Kennedy of Amsterdam has setup a dinner table, which users can reserve in 15 minute time slots to “dine” with family members across the globe. Yes, creepy, but apparently a success!

Free speech? There’s no such thing if we’re talking about obscenities or nasty remarks. What to do? Why, censor these of course. There are the standard BLEEPs, black boxes, and blurred portions of videos. And we’re not talking about state-run television, but the iPhone.

Researchers in Australia are about to bring a new kind of implantable chip that would cancel the pain signals from the spine to the brain into human trials. This chip would be geared towards chronic pain sufferers and the researchers are confident that once human trials have begun the chip [...]

Move over 007. Seems like the London Police beat you to it when they arrested Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks editor has all the makings of a Bond villain, complete with underground lair powered by two engines from German U-boats.

If you don’t know what a railgun is, you probably haven’t watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, where one was used to blast away gigantic Decepticon Devastator. But if you think this kind of weapon is only the realm of science fiction, think again. The US Navy has actually been [...]

If driving like you are on the Autobahn even when you are cruising through rural Nebraska is more important to you than saving some serious cash, than it appears that just the tool for you has recently hit the market.

Love means spending enough quality time with your partner, spouse, kids, or just about anyone you want to show affection to. Unfortunately, with today’s connected lifestyles, quality time often gets interrupted by phone calls, texts and whatnot. If you want to make a statement, you’d make sure you’re not interrupted [...]