GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	Figure Skaters Absorb 8x Their Own Body Weight [VIDEO]
	Figure skating doesn't look easy. Heck, it's not. It puts the body through a lot of strain and stress. So the researchers from Brigham Young University decided to design and build an unobtrusive skate sensor to measure the impact when a figure skat...
	Microsoft's Cortana Could Be Better than Siri and Google Now Combined
	Microsoft might be late to the digital assistant game, but the wait for it might be worth it. According to sources close to the project, some specifics about Microsoft's "Cortana" service have been revealed and it could be better than Siri and Googl...
	Google's Project Tango is an Experimental Android Phone to Map Your World in 3D [VIDEO]
	Google's new Project Tango is an experimental phone that will handed out to 200 developers next month. It will have a Kinect-like vision and a chipset that enables the phones to see the world in a whole different way. Project Tango comes out of th...
	Company Uses Recyclable Cardboard to Make Snowboards [VIDEO]
	Signal Snowboards's glass snowboards are surprisingly resilient on slopes, and their latest creation was made from recyclable corrugated cardboard. The boards was laminated using a store bought polyurethane, and it worked great. Check out how they...
	Prototype Condom Involves Some Electrodes on Your Man Junk [VIDEO]
	Remember how Bill Gates put out a $100,000 call for a better, high tech condom? We haven't had anything that will replace what we have today just yet, but Firaz Peer and Andrew Quitmeyer of Georgia Tech may have a potential solution.The only caveat...
	The Reason Ikea Is Discontinuing the Expedit Shelf
	25 percent of Ikea wood is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council. Last year they pledged to increase the number to 50 percent within five years. If they can cut a centimeter of wood on each of their products it would save them a whole lot of...
	You Might Be Able to Turn Pain On or Off Using Light [VIDEO]
	Imagine if you could deal with pain by just using light. According to research from Stanford's futuristic Bio-X lab, it might just be possible! A team of researchers developed a way to turn pain on and off using light. They used a technique called ...
	Study Finds Striking Similarities in Human and Dog Brains
	Guess what? You and your dog are pretty similar. But you already sort of knew that already right? Except, now there's scientific evidence to show that they could be just like us - according to brain scans that is. According to a new study from Eötvö...
	YouTube is Looking More of The Same on Mobile and on Your Browser
	YouTube is now looking the same on mobile and on your computer. The changes are pretty subtle at first, but the first thing you may notice is that everything is shifting over to be center-aligned. YouTube is also placing a heavier emphasis on playli...
	Researchers Make Muscle From Fishing Wire That's 100x Stronger Than Yours [VIDEO]
	A team of researchers from the University of Texas led by Professor Ray Baughman have just made some wicked strong artificial muscle fibers from nothing more than fishing wire. According to the paper, the research team showed how twisting fishing w...

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