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Let me put this bluntly: Smart homes are pretty dumb. Or at least historically, connected devices for the everyman’s house have seemed gimmicky at best. This week at CES, however we saw some new technology that stands to reform our very conception of how homes work. The crazy thing is that the gamechanging device we…

We have previously told you about the robot Pepper, developed through the efforts of companies SoftBank and Aldebaran Electronics. Also you’ve probably heard about the supercomputer Watson, developed by IBM Corporation. Pepper was originally designed to communicate with people in a language they understand and be help in many different areas. The robot’s developers plan…

Combining data from two instruments on board the New Horizons spacecraft, NASA scientists have produced a detailed composite image of Pluto’s Viking Terra region. NASA has also released a photo of the Sputnik Planum region which it says is the sharpest view yet of the Plutonian surface. To make this image of Viking Terra, scientists…

Photoshop du jour: Renault Mégane RS looks hot Posted on 08-01-2016 to 12:59 by MauritsH – 27 Comments” Sacre bleu, not bad! Renault is in each case in terms of design, busy. The Talisman is then perhaps a bit on the busy side in regards to the appearance of lines and fopjes, as well as…

Veilingsnoep! The Porsche 911 Strosek Mega Speedster Posted on 08-01-2016 at 13:59 by MauritsH – 41 Comments” Or you find him beautiful, or he works as a forest of onions on your eyeball. I think ‘m personally very funny, but that’s also the problem. If you have a fairly rare icon as the 964 Speedster…

Hamilton wanted this Mustang, but found ‘m yet to… Posted on 08-01-2016 at 14:55 by MauritsH – 28 Comments” A) Little swag. (B) Duration. C) other, namely… Pwoah, you would still be but Lewis Hamilton called, and have an interest in that big fat Mustang Hoonicorn (à 850 hp, thank you) Ken Block. The latter…

You could say that, historically, televisions are the star of CES. After all, it was at CES in 1998 that the world saw the first ever high-definition TVs. Plasma TVs debuted at CES in 2001, and OLEDs appeared in 2008. This year, however, everything was pretty damn boring. That’s not a bad thing. The most…

Bats are fascinating creatures—both from the point of scientific research and their place in the canon of the horror genre as spooky creatures of the night. So whether you’re a science person or a horror person, this shot of millions of bats streaming into the sky is either great, or great and fearsome. The spectacular…