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Last Friday saw a major shot fired at overly-abstract tech patents as Google, Facebook, Zynga, and several other companies filed an amicus brief with the US Court of Appeals on the case CLS v Alice. One of the traditional problems plaguing the tech sector has been the ease with which patents can be acquired for fairly basic [...]

Again, it looks like the barriers between science fiction and real world science are blurring. I’ve just been reading up on several news stories about 3D printers being used to create, wait for it… human body parts. Source: jamesaltucher.com via Charles on Pinterest Yep in a few years’ time your doctor might not be printing [...]

Many parents wish to instil a love of reading in their children, but with so much competition for children’s attention in today’s fast-paced world, it can be more difficult than ever to get them to sit down and focus on a book. A new iPad app called Bookboard may provide a solution to the book [...]

Doesn’t it seem like only yesterday that everyone gathered around the laptop to enjoy a Windows 7 party? Well it wasn’t. That was ages ago and if you’re still enjoying the post party glow then you are out of date . All the cool kids are desperately searching for a new operating system like an [...]

Is augmented reality just a tech fad? Tech news was once rife with how AR would become an everyday occurrence. Well I’m still waiting for that day. A video recently caught my eye and I’ve come to the conclusion: AR is fun for about 5 secs, as this video proves. Wow! You can change a can of beer into the [...]

In a move that could spell the end of untended baggage maverick Spanish innovator Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez has dreamt up a suitcase with a difference – it will follow its owner around! Dogged With a size format of as typical ‘carry on’ case visually, there is little to distinguish the “Hop!” from other bags with [...]

Yes my friends, me and my anti-robot agenda are back with a vengeance. My apologies for being off the grid for quite some time, but I’ve had serious matters to attend to. I’ve actually been engaged in a little empire building, specifically building my robot killing hamster army into a formidable force; running recruitment drives, [...]

Japan gave the world the haiku, and later the modern video game. The modern video game then gave us gamification, and enriched all of our lives. Now my gift for you, Japan: Gamification. Game form recasts, enlivens the mundane, the dull. All leaps forward in human civilisation draw their detractors. But in recent times gamification [...]

We’re always on the hunt for the most excellent and innovative projects on Kickstarter. This month, five projects that draw our attention… I’ve recently pledged for the I Draw Comics project, so I am obviously a big fan of the platform! Looking through different categories is almost like an on-line shopping. It gives you a great [...]

Last week the BBC show Horizon aired an episode entitled “How Big is the Universe”, quite simply, it was mind boggling. Our sun is in a galaxy (the Milky Way) of nearly half a trillion stars, that’s around 400 billion or 400 thousand million or 400,000,000,000. In the observable universe there are 170 billion galaxies [...]