Alright, so I understand the beautiful use of robotics in movie delivery, drone technology has an innumerable amount of applications that can be used to benefit humankind and make our lives just a little bit easier. However, why choose to deliver physical copies of movies with helicopters when for far less effort those same films
Put into the right context, science journalism is the most exciting reading anyone can find and science/nature documentaries are reaching incredible new heights in popularity. We’re slowly coming back into an era where scientists and educators are getting the recognition they deserve. We’re not quite at the stage where Neil DeGrass Tyson can crowdsurf after
When my Dad worked off-shore, he was friendly with the ROV guys. That’s Remote Operated (Underwater) Vehicle to you and I. As if operating a robot with a camera and a big flashlight on the bottom of the North Sea wasn’t a cool enough job, they added extra fun by attaching various toys and action
If a start-up created a database of things we oppose robots doing for us, I can imagine Google would pay millions to acquire them so that they can use it as a to-do list. Saying that, Luddites said the same thing about factory machinery and we look down on those people by using their name
Just like a child using paper cutting scissors made from plastic because real scissors are too dangerous, the only image manipulation tool I can use is Microsoft Paint, so all of the banner images on the site accompanying my articles are made in Photoshop by the bigger boys like Zeus and Jason. If I was
Giant lasers are the epitome of futuristic technology. Or evil geniuses, depending on the type of films you grew up watching. Try to imagine 192 giant lasers taking up the length of three football fields giving out 500 trillion watts of energy. That’s almost impossible for me to picture without remembering Hitler’s incredible plan for
Almost two weeks ago I lost a very close friend of mine in a car accident. It was traumatic and I’m still feeling the effects of it. I haven’t been sleeping well at all lately, I’ve been sleeping a lot it just isn’t a deep sleep. Mostly because I can’t get this image of him
The main problem with Google Glass is that you have to talk to your glasses. Think about that. I still know people who have a problem with speaking into their cell phones. Scratch that, I know people who have a problem speaking to people. Talking to your gadgets is most certainly the least efficient way
If there’s one thing that’s going to be the downfall of civilization it won’t be terrorism — it won’t be like we’re treating the Earth like an unwanted in-law. It will be because of 3D printing. We’re reaching a point now where you can nearly create anything that has a simple basic function with a
I live in a country where it’s very unlikely I’ll ever meet someone who owns a gun and I am glad of that fact. This means that I’ll most likely never be shot, and I’m glad of that fact too. Of course, if I wanted to be shot I could move to Albuquerque and live
North Korea is a crazy place. At least we think it is, because they won’t let us see. Although, I’m sure our perception is pretty spot on considering Kim Il-sung is considered a God and still holds the official title of president despite being dead for twenty years and the current leader of the country
Adam never argued with Eve until they ate of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and Eve realized that Adam always put the toilet roll on the wrong way, which is definitely considered evil in my household. Of course, that never actually happened because if it did then Noah also lived to be
What happens when Earth is a worn out husk and even the staunchest Conservatives agree that fracking was one of the more stupid ideas we’ve had? Where does the human race go from there? The sci-fi reading teenager in me immediately and emphatically answers “space!” and shouts “I told you so” at those Conservatives. Teenage
I’ve recently heard a few people bemoaning the real-life applicability of skills learned in school, and to an extent I agree. There are large swathes of information I “learned” at school which left my head after exams at speeds akin to last night’s Chinese food this morning. However, there are a lot of skills I
Possibly the best lawsuit ever has to be the one where a woman tried to sue a theater because she fell on the floor after her seat automatically folded up. It was thrown out because she had been there before and admitted that she knew that the chairs folded up, as they do in almost
About two weeks ago I was cooking bacon, eggs and toast at about 2 AM. I was fairly hungry as I had a relatively early dinner eating at 7 PM. So I cook my bacon, then I crack my eggs, put a knob of butter in there. Pro tip, don’t whisk the eggs beforehand or