MySMS is bringing the world together like never before
What if you could text anyone in the world, on any platform, instantaneously and for free? What if you could do this while leaving your smartphone in your pocket? A successful Austrian company, Up to Eleven Digital Solutions, is making these dreams a reality today through a new application called MySMS.
Hundreds of homes have been destroyed, thousands have been evacuated, hundreds of thousands of acres have been destroyed. Colorado is facing the worst wildfire season in over a decade. You know a problem is serious when it’s visible from space.
This video was taken from aboard the International Space Station. You start to be able to notice the smoke about :30 into the video. It’s amazing that even from space, it takes a number of minutes just to orbit around a single state. Helps you appreciate the true size of our planet, as well as the fires themselves.
Though controversial, birth control is a friend to a huge chunk of the population. This fact has come with much pain to women, as the potential side effects have been many. Emotional fluctuation, liver damage and migraines are just a few of the many discomforts often required when a woman wants to ensure that a baby doesn’t prematurely arrive to the party.
The day where a consistent, affordable and reliable male contraceptive is readily available will be widely welcomed. Women rejoice, it may be coming soon.
Although new technology has allowed us to accomplish countless things that were once unimaginable, that same technology is breeding laziness in society. Most of us don’t seem to mind. If someone told you that you could be lazier than you are now while simultaneously saving time, money and helping preserve the most precious natural resource in the world, what would your response be?
Mark Zuckerberg is the envy of billions. The Harvard dropout became the youngest billionaire in the world at age 23 and hasn’t looked back since.
Many of us saw the movie “The Social Network” and think we know a little about Mark, but there is a lot more to the man than meets the eye. Here is a list of ten things you probably didn’t know about Mark Zuckerberg.
Humans are emotional creatures. When we’re in a bad mood, good things can seem terrible. Vice versa, when we’re on top of the world, even the most boring topic or event can seem wonderful. Microsoft has taken note of this human trait, and they want to capitalize on our emotional nature. Bill Gates’ brainchild has plans to bring the technology offered by the Kinect, facial and voice recognition technology, into our PCs to target ads to us based on how we’re feeling.
The five senses are an amazing gift. It’s impossible to choose a favorite one, as there are some incredibly beautiful things on this Earth that you can see, smell, taste, touch and hear. It’s tough to argue that among the five, taste isn’t near the top. Sweet, sour, spicy: they all massage different points of our palettes in such uniquely great ways.
With every Sour Patch Kid and blueberry pie though, you have your vegetables and medication. Why does the stuff that’s best for you have to taste so bad? Well that might not be the case forever; did you know there’s a miracle berry that can manipulate your taste buds and make even the worst substances in life taste delicious?
Is it unreasonable to think that we can change the world?
Daniel Epstein, founder of the Unreasonable Institute and George Kembel, co-founder of Stanford’s d.school don’t think so. These two modern visionaries have teamed up with acclaimed study abroad program Semester at Sea to offer Unreasonable at Sea to the world. Your chance to be a part of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is closing fast. Applications are only being accepted through June 20th.
If you have yet to see the video of VW’s “Hover Car Concept”, it’s definitely worth the few minutes. Volkswagen translates to ‘the people’s car’, and the levitating car idea was the result of user submissions.
For the concept to realistically work, it would require electromagnetic strips built into our roads to generate levitation via electromagnetic levitation. VW is not currently in a position to manufacture vehicles like this, though the contest and publicity generated were stellar for the company image.
The idea of a hovercraft or hovercar has been the subject of science fiction for decades, and the way things are heading, it’s not farfetched to think that we could see something like this in the relatively near future. After all, the flying car is here, and so is the self-driving one.
Many of our parents played with mercury as kids and it’s easy to see why. It’s an abundant, shiny, metallic substance that is easily manipulated. Turns out that wasn’t such a good idea. Lucky for us we have science and we have gallium.