GADGETS - TECH NEWS

	This Table Will Never Topple Over, Despite How It Looks
	Here's a table that looks seemingly impossible. Does it deny physics? Apparently not. Designer Toni Grilo's gravity-defying looking coffee table does look like it is going to fall over, but it won't. Dubbed the Lithos Table, it is actually very hard...
	Study Reveals Just How Much We Are Swearing on Twitter
	Ever wondered just how many cuss words people are saying on Twitter? FastCo reports the work of some researchers from Wright State University who just analyzed some 51 million tweets by 14 million English language users to figure just how exactly pe...
	This App Will Train Your Brain to Help You See Much Farther [VIDEO]
	Wished you had better vision than you currently have? A new app is promising to help you attain it. Called UltimEyes, it was designed by neuroscientists who were thinking of ways to help baseball players see better. The scientists recruited 19 p...
	Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp for $16 Billion
	$3 billion is nothing compared to this. Facebook just entered into an agreement to buy Whatsapp for a whopping $16 billion. The messaging app recently passed the milestone of 450 million active monthly users.The purchase price is $4 billion in cash ...
	Google Explains How Not to Be a Glasshole
	Planning on wearing Glass when it's available for all? Here are the do’s and don’ts of wearing the tech on your face. Basically, it's about how not to be a Glasshole. This is from Google. According to one of the don'ts - you're not supposed to stand...
	This Chip Will Give Doctors a 3D View From Inside The Heart
	This little chip here will provide a real-time 3D view of the heart and blood vessels. Created by the team over at Georgia Tech, it packs 56 ultrasound transmitters and 48 receivers on a 1.5mm wide chip.The chip is placed at the end of a cardiac cat...
	This App That Lets Strangers Listen to Your Phone Calls
	Think the government listening in on your phone calls is worrying? How about strangers instead? Software developer Lauren McCarthy made an app called Crowdpilot. It lets everybody spy on you.The basic idea behind the app is to let people listen in o...
	The First Supersonic Private Jet Replaces Windows with Screens
	Why bother with windows when you can use screens instead? They add a lot of weight for airplanes, and they generally slow them down. The new Spike S-512 Supersonic Jet won't have any of that because they will be using real time, panoramic video scre...
	Researchers Have Finally Built the First Stretchy, Bendy Light Circuit
	The future is laden with stretchable circuits to pave the way for better wearable tech. It was at first hard to create, but in under two years, scientists have nailed the stretchable electronic circuitry. Now, Belgian researchers have come up with a...
	The Crazy Physics Behind Figure Skating [VIDEO]
	How do you explain figure skating using science? This latest video from AsapSCIENCE breaks down what happens to the human body during all those dizzy 360 and sometimes 720 spin. [AsapSCIENCE]

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