Star Wars-style hover bike coming to a street near you A Californian research group is making the Star Wars speeder bike a reality In Space Year 2013, as well as whizzing around on ajetpack, we’ll be able to commute to work on a Return of the Jedi-style speeder bike. That’s if California-based research group Aerofex has anything to do with it. It’s created a hover bike capable of flying 15 feet in the air at up to speeds of 30mph....
Starcount serves up world’s most popular people at a glance The social media popularity contest gets cranked up to 11. Prepare your self-esteem A new social media tool called Starcount is striving to measure who the world’s most popular people and brands are, by sucking in data from a plethora of social media networks. Starcount will allow curious users to find out in real time who or what is the most popular, by collecting information from 11 of the top social networks including Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus....
Start8 for Windows 8 brings back the Start Menu Going to miss the much-loved Windows Start button in Windows 8? There’s an app for that As we know, Microsoft has killed off one of the most recognizable mainstays of computing forWindows 8– the famous Start button. If you’re one of the many eager beavers who has taken the finger-friendlyWindows 8 consumer previewfor a test drive, the first glaringly obvious change is the replacement of the Start Menu with the Start page....
Stephen Fry: Apple being top dog is “slightly disconcerting” The star of QI and Gadget Man talks smartphones, Apple and the joys of the Nokia Communicator God ofTwitter, Quite Interesting QI host and all-round Renaissance man Stephen Fry explores the world of tech in his new series Gadget Man, starting Monday on Channel 4. The show follows Fry as he uses gadgets to improve his day-to-day life – from off-the-shelf consumer tech to prototype products....
Street Fighter II Lego set steals our blocky hearts Maybe if we cross our fingers hard enough this Street Fighter II Lego set will be in our hands faster than a fully charged Hadouken It’s no secret that we love Lego, especially when innovative sets like theMinecraftandBack to the Futureofferings come our way. The latest set to jump straight to the top of our ‘I want that right now list’ is this user-createdLego Street Fighter II setfeaturing a near-complete roster of all your favourite Street Fighter characters – from Ryu and Ken all the way across to the adorable green Blanka....
Stuff takes the Renault Twizy for a test drive Meet the Renault Twizy – the offspring of a Smart car and a golf buggy. But is it electric? Or just a shocker? It’s not very often that an outlandish concept car makes the transition from prototype to fully-fledged product. Take theCitroën Lacoste concept, for example. Things are a little different for the rather unconventional and sci-fi inspired Twizzy. According to Renault, the Twizy is the ultimate urban mobility solution....
Super-slim PlayStation 3 appears online Could Sony be releasing a size-zero console to give existing consoles a hefty dose of self-image issues? Alleged pictures of a super-slim PlayStation 3 console – dubbed the PS3 4000 – have cropped up onto the interwebs in the form of some authentic (albeit blurry) looking images on Brazilian siteTecnoblog. The new PS3 4000 appears to be even skinnier than the existing slimline model and features a sliding top disc tray, covered by a ridged-crisp like finish....
