GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	Chicken Feathers Could Have a Big Impact on Plastic, and A Lot of Other Things
	We eat billions of chickens every year. What happens to the all those chicken feathers? Some entrepreneurs are saying that chicken feathers could the future of plastic. It's not only used as a duster! USDA researcher Walter Schmidt tried a lot of th...
	120 Science Journal Papers were Pulled for Being Total Gibberish
	Not every study or science journal is real. Don't believe everything you read. There's a chance it could be 100 percent, bullshit. And if they are B.S., they get pulled. That's what happened this week. Nature revealed that scientific journal publish...
	Make a Cheap Water Filter Out of a Tree Part
	Scientists at MIT have found a way to make cheap water filters, made from the sapwood of white pine trees. It can filter out 99 percent of E.Coli from contaminated water. Sapwood is simply the part of a tree where sap flows. It has millions of pores...
	You Can View (and Erase) Your Facebook Search History
	Your search terms on Facebook get stored in your Activity log, and here's how you can view it and erase it if you want to. Your Activity Log is only viewable by you, and it is pretty easy to find. Just click the gear icon on the upper-right-hand cor...
	Open Offices Might Make Us Sick, According to Science
	The trend of offices these days seem to evolve around the open office concept. But there are a lot of reasons to hate this plan. For one, it is loud. And it makes it hard to focus. Now, new research is saying that they might make us sick too. A stud...
	Is Microsoft Considering a Free Version of Windows 8.1?
	According to rumors, Microsoft is thinking of giving away its new OS for free - Windows 8.1. ZDNet and Verge are saying that Microsoft is going to trial something called Windows 8.1 with Bing. The version of the OS will be bundled with "key Microsof...
	Futuristic Concept will Help You Predict and Control the Future
	Israeli designer Dor Tal created a concept called Future Control: a wristband and pico projector that can tell the future. The video below demonstrates the project, represented as a tiny projector on a tiny tripod or a tiny projector embedded in ...
	Fujitsu's New Touchscreen Can Make You Feel Different Textures
	Fujitsu debuted a new project at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, that could potentially change the way we use our gadgets - specifically the way we touch our gadgets, by giving touch screens a flexible texture.Fujitsu's prototype uses air: Ultra...
	Consumer Psychology and Ecommerce Checkouts That Influence The Success of Your Site
	There are a lot of factors that contribute to the success of e-commerce sites. It's not just what you sell, but rather the entire operation behind it all. This infographic here from Vouchercloud sums it all up from site speed to design, to how many ...
	Obama: US Army is Building a Real Iron Man [VIDEO]
	President Obama met with top engineers and Pentagon people last Tuesday and he publicly said: "Basically, I'm here to announce that we're building Iron Man [...] Not really. Maybe. It's classified." It may be funny, but it isn't a joke. They are bu...

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