Author: Morgan
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The drone has landed – Thanks to the Eagle
With the exponential rise in drones over the last couple of years, Marty’s view of the future above would probably not surprise many of us now. Move swiftly forward to 2016 and drones are being used in all kinds of ways; Amazon delivery, couriering contraband into prisons, aerial photography, high speed racing, military actions, to…
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3D printing – Improving lives
One of the most heard criticisms of 3D printing is that it just creates more plastic waste in our lives. More so in the case of failed printings that have to be redone, and that there aren’t enough ways to use recycled materials in the process. Although this is a downside, obviously, there are many…
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How to Protect Your RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) and Personal Data
In this day and age, we seem to be constantly hearing about data being lost, sold, traded and worst of all, stolen. Unfortunately due to our wishes to be more connected (iot) all of the time, it makes the job for thieves a little easier. Now, if you are not security/technically savvy, then you probably…
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GoPro up Periscope!
The camera maker GoPro is doing its best to gain traction after having to lay off seven percent of its workforce. The layoffs probably came about because most consumers, once they have bought a GoPro, will not purchase the next best model mainly due to the fact that it is a good product and once…
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The Feel Bracelet – Hack happiness
The year was 2016… The time was, unknown. The wearable market had been steadily beginning to grow over the previous two years, nobody knew where it was going to end up until the Feel Bracelet was designed and sent out to the masses. At this moment, everyone instantly knew what they were feeling and could…
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Intel Compute Stick gains needed upgrade!
The compute stick by Intel could have, should have, and would have been a great idea if it had been executed properly when first released. Unfortunately the original stick was an Intel Atom based processor and any system based on this cpu is going to be a tad slow. This could be forgiven if the…
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The PINE A64 – 64bit SBC
Since the advent of the smartphone in 2007, people have been clamouring to get the fastest pocket power possible. Now, pocket power is all well and good, but without connectability it’s a little lacking, unless you are happy with everything wireless of course. Not entirely small enough for comfortable pocket use, but, definitely packing a…
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Fairphone 2 – Repair Your Own Modular Smartphone
Fairphone is a small Dutch company startup that has big plans to change the way phones are built, not only in design but also through the resources involved in production, notably free from conflict minerals. Fairphone has managed to be the first company to ship a fully modular smart phone. The Fairphone 2 is the…
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Eve: Valkyrie teams up with Oculus
CCP Games (the developers of Eve:Valkyrie) and Oculus have announced that all pre-orders of Rift will ship with a free copy of this game. This is great news to anybody who has already played the demo in VR and it is quite an impressive game. EVE: Valkyrie is a team-based science fiction first person multiplayer…
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Plant power – A new way to capture electricity
Although the science behind it has been studied for a while, a group of researchers at Peru’s university of Technology and Engineering (UTEC) have come up with their own way of harnessing the power of Geobacters. Geobacters harness their energy from reducing ferric iron to Magnetite through oxidisation of organic compounds. Research on Geobacters has…