Arunachalam Muruganantham has spent the last few years designing a better, and cheaper, sanitary pad for women in India. A fascinating report by BBC News details his journey, which began when he realized his wife used dirty rags instead of a proper pad. In fact, only 12 percent of women use sanitary pads in India and 23 percent of young girls drop out of school once they start menstruating. But in a country where the very subject is taboo, reverse engineering a sanitary pad proved a difficult task, with Muruganantham going so far as to fill a soccer ball with goat blood in order to test his prototypes. "I became the man who wore a sanitary pad," he says. He eventually designed a machine so that rural women can make their own, and plans...
The US government is taking Sprint to court for allegedly inflating the cost of performing wiretaps by millions of dollars. In a complaint filed on Monday, the government said Sprint had asked law enforcement agencies for an extra $21 million in reimbursement for its surveillance costs over a period of several years, raising its total bill by around 58 percent. As a penalty for adding "hidden costs" in requests between 2007 and 2010, the Obama administration wants Sprint to pay damages and separate penalties of between $5,500 and $11,000 for each of 29,000 expense claims, a number that could add up to hundreds of millions of dollars.
Companies are entitled to reimbursement for the expense of performing wiretaps or installing pen...
Dish Network just took the lead in turning Internet TV into reality.
Long have the biggest names in technology -- Apple, Google, Sony -- chased the aspiration of moving tech's courtship of television to full-blown marriage: a multichannel television service, giving you the most popular networks of your cable provider but delivering them over the Internet
And long has it been a story of unrequited love. No company has yet to make major, public, legitimate strides toward it, relegating them instead to grand proclamations of intent or sidelong glances at their hearts' desire.
At the 2014 Geneva Motor Show, Jaguar finally gave a name to its upcoming compact sport sedan. The XE will feature a new aluminum platform, and a new line of fuel-efficient "Ingenium" engines.
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Bill Gates once again finds himself at the top of Forbes magazine's annual list of the world's richest people, while Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg's wealth increased the most in the last year among the 1500+ names in the list.
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The Ear Switch is a wearable concept device developed in Japan, which takes the familiar functionality of Google Glass or a smartwatch, and shrinks it down into a subtle, unobtrusive ear piece.
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Winner of the 'Most Innovative Mobile App' award at last week's MWC event in Barcelona, CamMe uses gesture control to help you snap a better, wider selfie. Ellen DeGeneres could've done with it Sunday night.
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Facebook is reportedly in talks with drone maker Titan Aerospace over a possible acquisition. It's believed the New Meixico-based company can help Facebook with its plan to bring affordable Internet access to locations around the world.
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Intel is rumored to have paid at least $100 million to acquire Basis, the company which produces the cool B1 health tracking smartwatch, advancing its wearable plans to the next level.
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Scientists have taken their first look into the previously unexplored New Hebrides deep-sea trench in the Pacific Ocean. At the bottom of the trench — a depth of more than 23,000 feet (7,000 meters) — they found a surprising group of creatures, unlike those found in other deep trenches around the world.
The expedition was carried out by the University of Aberdeen's Oceanlab team, in association with New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. An unmanned lander fitted with cameras descended into the trench between the islands of New Caledonia and Vanuatu off Australia's eastern coast.
Twitter has apologized after mistakenly sending out emails to an unknown number of users late Monday telling them their account may have been hacked. No security breach had taken place, Twitter said, though affected users still have to change their password.
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La gente de Supermarché preparó hace tiempo una minipelícula titulada Metrópolis II dedicada al proyecto del mismo nombre que creó Chris Burden y del que ya hablamos por aquí hace un par de años.
El hipnótico y relajante montaje está compuesto en total de 18 carriles para coches, 1.000 cochecitos Hot Wheels, 13 vías de tren y decenas de edificios LEGO. Se necesitaron tres meses para moverlo de la impresionante nave en que se construyó –atención a la última escena– hasta el Museo de Arte de Los Ángeles, donde ahora está expuesto.
Rolls-Royce has released the images and specifications of its latest model: the Ghost II. Designed as the next evolution of the iconic British brand’s design, the front fascia looks more like a jet air-intake than it does a traditional Roller.
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Esta genial «tarjeta de visita» se llama Arduboy y ha sido creada por Kevin Bates como hackeo para mostrar no solo su habilidad sino también las posibilidades de los pequeños circuitos Arduino. Además de servir para jugar un rato al Tetris tiene algunos códigos secretos y sorpresas.
(Vía The Next Web.)
