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Back in May, our friend and ex-NASA JPL engineer Mark Rober, figured out a way to shoot "bullet time" videos on the cheap , with a ceiling fan, a pair of flashlights, and a GoPro. Pretty damn creative, but the rig had it...

Almost a year after it made its debut, Syntellia's Fleksy keyboard for Android is finally out of beta. It actually arrived on Google Play six months ago, but was only available to those who joined the company's Google+ c...

The Autographer is a small and hands-free intelligent wearable camera that has a mind of its own. It's human nature to come up with incredibly bad facial expressions when someone is about to take your picture. The nervou...

HP's adding more Leap Motion to its PC arsenal. After refreshing its Envy 17 with inbuilt Leap Motion control, HP's now expanding that partnership to select products in its desktop and all-in-one lines. The 11 devices, w...

Supposing you’re in the mood for controlling your computer with a wisp of your hand this upcoming winter season, HP and Leap Motion have today suggested that you’re in luck. They’ve made clear that they’re bringi...

3D printing and additive manufacturing may be destined to change how we make and acquire objects forever. But it's also spurring a shadow revolution--one that focuses on how to stop us from replicating.

There’s an error appearing for users this afternoon for iDevices and desktop computers when they access iTunes or the App Store with the word “Fatal” in it. While we wouldn’t recommend panicking quite yet, you ca...

Check out this unbelievable storm photograph by Anne Goforth--her entry for the 2013 National Geographic Photo Contest. And check Sploid a selection of our top three favorite photos in each of the three categories: peopl...

When Mitsubishi's i-MiEV plug-in first arrived in late 2011, the ES model was priced at a whopping $27,990. After a few fluctuations on the sticker amount, that version of the compact automobile is now rolling out for $2...

The chances of you ever visiting Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are already pretty low. But the likelihood you'd manage to find your way into its specially designed, ultra-safe, and hyper-secure nuclear research ...

First of all: if you don't have a dog, please think hard before getting one these holidays. It's a huge responsibility. They are sentient, sensitive beings who will love you all their life, not toys. But if you're a true...

Valve's engineers may spend much of their time building practical hardware like gamepads and VR headsets, but they still have room to work on some intriguing side projects. Just ask the company's Ben Krasnow, who recentl...

It started life as another one of ThinkGeek's impressive April Fool's Day prank products, but like the Tauntaun sleeping bag before it, there was enough demand from the site's fans to make the Technomancer Digital Wizard...

They put up with you for 18 years, made you into a functioning human, and sent you on your merry way out into the world. Yup, they're your parents and you love them dearly. So they deserve some thoughtful gifts that show...

The Android version of the Google Music app has been updated this week to bring on several much-requested abilities to the masses. The first of these changes is the ability to download and save song files to your smartph...

You may think your current HDTV is bright enough, but Dolby disagrees. The company, which is known more for its audio tech than its imaging capabilities, has been putting a lot of effort into developing a new type of ima...

Ford's new Mustang, officially unveiled today, is a technological tour de force. Our friends at Jalopnik had an in-depth tour at what's under the hood , and came away duly impressed. But for a closer

For all the futuristic advancements packed into modern space-based telescopes, they all still rely on the same bulky, heavy glass optics that Galileo used centuries ago. But thanks to this DARPA project, future telescope...

This isn't the first we've seen of Saturn's six-sided jet stream, but NASA's calling the GIF after the break "the first hexagon movie of its kind." The "movie" is made from a compilation of images taken by the Cassini sp...

If you thought launching a drone from an aircraft carrier was impressive, you're going to be blown away by this: After six years of development, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory has successfully launched a drone from a...

According to Microsoft this will be "the world's first joint research center dedicated to studying and perfecting the social applications of NUI [natural user interfaces]." That's about as incredibly specific as these so...

This one's for the people who give you more reliable subway directions than HopStop, who can describe to you, in detail, the metro map in any given city, and who want to ride the bus "just because." These transportation-...