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You Can Now Drink Whisky in Space With This Glass!
Ballantine’s is infamous for its blended Scotch whiskies which date back to 1827 and have won various accolades over the years. As one of the finest purveyors of Scotch Whisky, the company enlisted the help of Open Space Agency’s James Parr, to manufacture the first whisky glass for zero-gravity. The final design…
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Glass 3D Printing Technique Is Stunning
Recent years have seen the technique of 3D printing evolve from a niche concept to a mainstream phenomenon, which in turn has opened up a whole new horizon for product manufacturing. If you thought this was exciting, then be prepared to be blown away as a new development centres on…
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Google Glass Might Face Heavy Competition in the Enterprise Market
We haven’t heard much about Google’s Glass Project in a while, but not because it is dying, but more that it is now focusing on the enterprise side of things. Everyone went nuts when Google cancelled the Explorer program earlier this year, thinking that it was the end of Google…
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Watch: Solar-Powered Ray Can Melt Metal
Kevin Moore and Grant Reynolds from the Science Channel looked at one of their favourite childhood pastimes – burning things with the rays from a magnifying glass – and wanted to magnify it. They wanted to magnify the ray so much so that it could melt metal. So how do you get that much heat?…
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Corning ‘Project Phire’ – Screens With Similar Scratch Resistance to Sapphire
Corning, the makers of the famous Gorilla Glass that covers most major smartphones, has announced their latest product – ‘Project Phire’, their attempt to make a form of Gorilla Glass that has a scratch resistance “approaching sapphire”. Corning Glass president James Clappin revealed the new product during an investors meeting, declaring the…
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Microsoft HoloLens: Everything You Need to Know
Yesterday Microsoft had their massive Windows 10 event. In it they announced a great deal about Windows 10 and a great deal about many things we weren’t expecting. One of those things was the HoloLens – a crazy mix of Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality. These goggles essentially provide the virtual…
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Apple’s Phil Schiller: Nobody “Normal” Will Wear Google Glass
Apple has never said very much about Google’s wearable efforts with Glass. Apart from Tim Cook’s quip a few years back at the All Things D conference, the company has been quiet about whether it would ever be interested in such a product. That is until now. Apparently, the founder…
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Google Kills Glass Explorer Programme
Google has pulled the plug on the Glass Explorer programme, but insists the product isn’t dead. Google is ending support for the device “in its current form”. Glass will no longer be managed under the extravagant “blue sky” Google X group, but instead will have its own division within Google. That division…
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Toshiba to Unveil Wide Range of Next-Generation Innovations at CES
Toshiba will celebrate their 50th anniversary in the US market next year, and they’re starting that out with showcasing their newest products and vision for the future at the Consumers Electronics Show (CES), January 6th to 9th 2015. There will be a wide variety of storage solution on display, but…
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iPhone to Protect Itself from Falls by Shifting Weight
According to the International Business Times, Apple has filed a patent that uses the vibration motor inside an iPhone to shift the device’s weight when falling – saving it from serious damage. “A patent awarded to Apple by the US Patent and Trademark Office this week, describes a “protective mechanism for an…
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Google Glass to Use Intel Processor
The Wall Street Journal reports that the next version of Google Glass will use Intel Processors. The Journal says that Google has formed a deal with the chip maker, meaning Google’s yet-to-be widely released wearable will be powered by Intel. It’s not yet clear exactly how Glass will use Intel’s…
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Corning Announces Gorilla Glass 4
Corning has announced its next ‘version’ of Gorilla Glass that supposedly “survives up to 80 percent of the time”. The new glass is touted to be 2 times stronger than any other competing glass product, and has been designed with intention of saving your screen from a big drop. They…
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Why Didn’t The iPhone 6 Ship with a Sapphire Screen?
For those of you who follow the tech news heavily, you’ll remember that over a year ago Apple signed on an agreement with GT Advanced Technologies – who were at the time a niche sapphire glass manufacturer. Sapphire glass would finally put a true leap forward in mobile screen technology,…
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New Report Suggests Google Glass is Losing Support
Reuters reports that Google Glass, Google’s foray into wearables, is apparently losing the interest of developers, customers and even Google itself. Google revealed its Glass wearable device in 2012 as a prototype that was to eventually become a consumer product, using its optical head-mounted display to project images before the…
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$1,500 Google Glass Explorer Edition Now Available through Google Play
After a long run of invite-only availability for Google’s Glass – earlier this year Google started selling its Glass “Explorer Edition” to anyone who was willing to fork out $1,500 back in May. But now it now looks like the company is expanding availability for the wearable – as it’s…
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