What If You Could Breathe Underwater? Could An Artificial Gill Ever Be Created?

Alaric Anderson
September 11, 2016
Filed in: Extreme Tech • Technology

If an idea alone would give you rights to an invention, I'd be rich. I remember thinking, why don't we just make an apparatus that has gills like the fish, so that we don't need oxygen tanks? I was 5 when I first came up the the idea. Throughout my childhood, I had many dreams where I could breathe underwater - and I was sad when I awakened to our world where humans... read more

The Oculus Rift Will Come At A Hefty Price. Is It Worth IT?

Brian Thornsburg
September 21, 2015
Filed in: Future Tech • Gear • Technology

While people around the world may be excited about the upcoming release of The Oculus Rift, they might lose a little bit of that excitement once they hear how much the device is rumored to cost. Nate Mitchell, Vice President of Oculus VR, stated in an interview during a TechCrunch disrupt event that the Oculus Rift will be considered high end and will cost more... read more

Virtual Reality Theme Park Coming In 2016

Brian Thornsburg
May 12, 2015
Filed in: Extreme Tech • Technology

If you build it, they will come. While that logic might have worked perfectly in the movie, The Field of Dream, it has yet to be seen if that same strategy will work in the case of a Virtual Reality Theme Park. The theme park in questions name is, The Void, and is being completely funded by a man in Utah. The Void is scheduled to be open sometime in 2016 in the... read more

Apple Gets Patent Approved That Allows For Easier GPS Directions For Users

Brian Thornsburg
May 9, 2015
Filed in: Big Data • Technology

Directions are about to get a little easier thanks to patent filed by Apple In 2013. The patent, which is entitled "Humanized Navigation instructions for mapping applications", was approved this week and will allow for more user friendly directions while traveling. For example. Instead of hearing the usual, "take a left in approximately 400 feet", the user will hear... read more

The Future of Autonomous Cars | How Driverless Cars Will Change Driving Forever

Patelli Paschal
March 8, 2015
Filed in: Auto Trends • Future Tech • Technology

Driverless cars will change driving forever in a myriad of ways. Assuming any kinks can be worked out with regard to the overall shift in societal thinking, legal issues and impact, and process and execution, one thing is for certain: driverless cars are no longer a thing of the future. A new study released Thursday by McKinsey & Company projected that widespread... read more

It Is Scientifically Possible To Physically See Back In Time, In Real Time

Alaric Anderson
February 2, 2015
Filed in: Extreme Tech • Technology

I thought of this a few years ago, although only now do I realize how it would be actually possible to implement. Back then I thought, if there was a glint of reflection of light, we could see into our own past. I'm jumping ahead of myself. Some years ago, I wrote this down: When we look out at the known universe, we are looking out into the past, essentially... read more

Faster than light speed travel? With new recent breakthroughs it may be in fact possible – in a way

Alaric Anderson
September 13, 2014
Filed in: Extreme Tech • Technology

In the year 2000, almost 15 years ago, scientists blew away the light speed record by making a laser travel at 300 TIMES the speed of light. Essentially, you can make one end of a light wave travel faster, as long as the other end travels equally slower, so that the total speed across the whole wave does not exceed the speed of light (300 million m/s). Thus, if you... read more

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