If you love LEGOs, you might have imagined building a real house from them. And with the surging popularity of 3D printers, such a dream seems well within reach. Nick Johnson, a spokesman for real estate blog Movoto, decided to find out what it would take to build a 3D-printed house. “Given that we’re due…
Beating your head against the wall trying to find a specific attachment in your overstuffed Gmail inbox? Google just made life easier for you with a newly added keyword search feature for Gmail attachments. Previously, the popular email client only allowed search within text files, but now users can search within files from several leading…
Right as the U.S. government shut down on Oct. 1, the new national health-care exchange went live at healthcare.gov. Intended for people who want to buy health insurance under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, the website failed from the start. It was unusable to hundreds of thousands of Americans who wanted to enroll.…
Power failures aren’t that common in the U.S., but they are more likely to happen in the summer, when people crank up the air conditioning. Back in August 2003 a blackout covering much of the northeast happened because the control systems for the grid system did exactly what they were designed to do — but…
Dropbox is the latest tech company to have fallen victim to a security breach, and there’s a good chance your account is at risk. But unlike recent hacks on sites such as Yahoo, LinkedIn and eHarmony, account names and passwords weren’t posted online, making it more difficult to check via a tool if yours was…
Quick! What’s the most commonly pirated PC application? If you said “Microsoft Word,” you might be right. But “Adobe Photoshop” wouldn’t be wrong, either. And despite Adobe’s best efforts to the contrary, that isn’t going to change any time soon. Within a day or two of the debut of Adobe’s new software subscription service earlier…
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGic9Ylcync?enablejsapi=1&] A lot of changes are coming to Apple products this year. Monday’s keynote at the Worldwide Developers Conference showed the future of the iPhone, iPad and Macs — and here are the top highlights to come from the event. 1. iOS 8: The announcement of iOS 8 drew heavy applause from the crowd.…
Update: This post was updated October 2013 to reflect current statistics and tools.Congratulations! All that time you’ve spent coaxing your HTML to transform your blank, white and Times New Roman font-filled web page to something that vaguely represents a design-worthy website is about to become completely and totally moot. Delete all those tags peppered at…
Alongside long security lineups and baggage fees, one of the biggest pet peeves associated with air travel is unpredictable temperatures on board planes. While the climate is freezing for her, it’s way too hot for him. To remedy this, researchers at Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP are developing an airplane seat that will…
Technology may move at the speed of electrons, but the law tends to slouch stubbornly along like — well, like an ass. For all the hubbub about the billion-dollar jury decision in the Apple-Samsung lawsuit (and despite Apple moving forward with a bid to ban eight specific mobile gadgets), we’re not even close to a…
Creating the perfect website for your small business is about much more than simply picking the right domain name and pictures. Companies must instead be able to include practical information about their business while also avoiding common mistakes that often plague websites. “Small businesses need to be represented in those consumer online searches even if…
You know how rock bands tour around in those huge, tricked-out buses? Imagine that same bus plastered with the logos of 26 tech startups, driving around the country from university to university looking for young, talented programmers. That’s the concept behind Hacker Tour 2012. Hacker Tour is the brainchild of ReadyForce, a startup in its…
If you’ve ever wanted to have your very own Doge, now is your chance. These fun figurines are primed and ready to jump off your News Feeds and onto your desks thanks to 3D printing. Shapeways is a marketplace that uses over 15,000 designers to produce a wide array of 3D-printed jewelry, home decor, gadgets,…
With so much speculation surrounding the next-generation iPhone event, a stunning new concept video has hit the web, touting features such as fingerprint scanning for enhanced security and rubberband electronics, which enables the device to stretch like a scrunchie. The video — created by Aatma Studio — begins with the iPhone 4S and the iPhone…
The digital rollout of Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., as the Republican vice-presidential candidate is hitting a few virtual speed bumps. The Obama team launched a Google advertising campaign keyed to searches on Ryan’s name that links to web pages with talking points criticizing Ryan’s budget proposal. The ad stood alone for a time on Monday,…
Any great hackathon requires plenty of coffee, energy drinks and lots of sugar, but for a purely distributed event, competitors need more than just a few jolts of caffeine. As hackathons grow in popularity, organizers and competitors alike are making use of a plethora of social media tools to plan, execute, promote and deliver new…
Throughout the last 10 years, the world of design — specifically architecture and engineering — has benefited greatly from major technological advances. Although it wasn’t too long ago that many infrastructure and object modeling required excellent hand-drafting and perceptibility skills (not to mention plenty of time and attention to detail), 3D software tools such as…