The Dyson PencilVac was one of the most interesting cordless vacuums I saw last year, mainly because it doesn’t really look like any other cordless vacuum I’ve ever seen. I called it the “lightest and thinnest cordless vacuum I’ve ever used.” In…
Scientists are increasingly recognising the importance of reflection in everyday life, yet current approaches within Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) often limit its scope to cognitive problem-solving. Aaron Pengyu Zhu from the National…
As a fitness professional and doctor of physical therapy, I’ve always been active. I spent most of my 20s chasing the ‘toned’ look. (For the record, this isn’t even a real thing – it’s marketing jargon. I did all the classic workouts…
While modern muscle cars produced over the past 20 years or so have generally been pretty affordable when compared to European performance models in particular, handing over north of $40k still takes a fair amount of saving. Thanks to the passage…
Nintendo officially has a new MVP in its hardware portfolio.
The venerable video game maker announced in its latest earnings report (via IGN) that the first Nintendo Switch is officially…
The current-generation Aston Martin Vantage is a looker that can cruise imperfect city streets as competently as it can carve a freshly paved canyon road, and even the convertible version can touch 200 mph. For those with $200K to…
With its elongated facade of perforated brickwork, Zero Studio’s Haven House sits on an elevated site within a quiet neighborhood in Valiyannur, India. From the road, the dwelling reads as a low,…
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of my favorite use cases for computer vision. There is something that fascinates me about a machine “reading” the physical world. Once I saw this Edge Impulse project doing Model Cascading to enable OCR…