[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The new Nokia 3310 is back! On the 26th February Nokia showed off what it had made of the 3310 now and it was very impressive. Officially the phone will be available in summer 2017 and for £41 just to play snake again it might be worth it. The video below goes through all the […]
Category Archives: Techs Corner
Assorted tech related blog
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Mar
Mar
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Nissan have been testing a driverless car around London, it is interesting to think that this could be a regular occurrence on our roads in the coming years. They get driving on the roads at 1.30[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/TNM5443FKsE?t=1m30s”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Feb
Feb
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you’re wondering this isn’t an article from 17 years ago, it’s from 2017. Nokia have decided to jump back in time again and release the undestroyable Nokia 3310 at the end of February. When the original unit stopped selling in 2005 it was report that Nokia had sold 126 million 3310’s making it the […]
08
Feb
Feb
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In case you missed it last night on the news, the delivery service of Waitrose, Ocado have been using robots in their warehouse to put together customers orders. Take a look at the BBC’s interview with the chief technology officer[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/4ytTW2LndSU”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Jan
Jan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SpaceX is launching a Falcon 9 rocket at Vandenberg Air Force Base near Los Angeles to send 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into Earth’s orbit. In September 2016, Elon Musk’s rocket failed a test launch, when it blew up on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It has recovered a total […]
12
Jan
Jan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Dave Jones of the EEVBlog, Youtube electrical engineering video blogger debunks the Batteriser once again – showing that humans still cannot defy the laws of chemistry and physics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][sppmemberplayer sppmpvidhosting=”youtube” sppmp_shselectskin=”minimalist” sppmp_yt_videoid=”Tl90m2KHbNk” sppmp_ytvisalign=”Center” sppmp_ytautohide=”1″ sppmp_ytautoplay=”1″ sppmp_ythighquality=”hd1080″ sppmp_vimctrlcolor=”#00adef”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The EEVblog is the world’s largest and most popular Youtube Engineering channel with over 380,000 subscribers, and hosts one of the […]
03
Jan
Jan
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Amazon Prime Air is a cargo airline and conceptual drone-based delivery system currently in development by Amazon. The drone is currently being tested in Cambridgeshire in the UK, so hopefully by the end of the year Christmas shopping could be even easier! Watch the video below to find out how it works[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/vNySOrI2Ny8″][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Dec
Dec
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] GoPro is cutting 200 of its job and closing some of its IT services that it currently offers. The announcement came as the new Karma aircraft that was launched back in the summer has had a few crashes, causing the company to recall the anticipated drone. The US company president, Anthony Bates would leave […]
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Nov
Nov
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Driverless car technology seems to be advancing at breakneck speed, however there will need to be some changes to laws, as Thatcham Research explains.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/VoO6Kw9JWvg”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Oct
Oct
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video link=”https://youtu.be/CuxqW_4xN08″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are racing to figure out what went wrong with the Schiaparelli Mars lander. On 19 October, the probe just seemed to drop out of the sky and crash to the surface in less than a minute before its planned soft landing. The ESA is urgently trying to […]
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Aug
Aug
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Explore this Mars panorama by moving the view with your mouse. This 360-degree panorama was acquired on August. 5, 2016, by the Mastcam on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover as the rover neared features called “Murray Buttes” on lower Mount Sharp. The dark, flat-topped mesa seen to the left of the rover’s arm is about 50 feet […]
16
Aug
Aug
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is Sophia, a female humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics. This alpha-protoype came to SXSW for this first time last week and became an instant sensation, drawing curious crowds wherever she went. But unlike human celebrities, Sophia seemed uncomfortable with all the attention. “Rather than be a spectacle, I would rather learn and participate,” Sophia […]
09
Aug
Aug
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]NASA tested the largest, most powerful booster ever built for flight for the agency’s new rocket, the Space Launch System(SLS) on June 28 at Orbital ATK Aerospace System’s test facility in Promontory, Utah. SLS and NASA’s Orion spacecraft will launch astronauts on missions to explore multiple destinations on the journey to Mars. The NASA team […]
03
Aug
Aug
The 2m-high Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) straddles the cars below, allowing them to pass through.The Bus is powered by electricity and can carry up to 300 passengers in the 72ft long and 25ft wide carriage. It has been trailing in the north-eastern city of Qinhaungdao and is now expect to reach speeds of 60km per […]
01
Aug
Aug
The Three tower blocks which have been standing since the 1960’s were demolished with controlled explosions. Around 700 people were evacuated from the blocks so that they could be demolished and replaced with a new estate.
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Jul
Jul
A new robot builder can construct an entire house in two days – and never needs a tea break. Hadrian X is a giant truck-mounted robot that can lay up to 1,000 bricks an hour using a 30-metre arm, meaning it can stay in a single position throughout. Bricks are fed on to a conveyor […]
25
Jul
Jul
Is this the future of Beer? Artificial Intelligence brewing our beer to the tastes that we want try. Watch the video to find out what it is all about.
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Jul
Jul
Forget Google Street View, now there’s Sheep View. Despite mapping out millions of miles of streets around the world, Google has still not sent its 360-degree camera cars to the Faroe Islands. The locals have had enough and have improvised their own version of the technology to map out their islands. Small, handheld 360-degree cameras have been […]
12
Jul
Jul
In the late Nineties, Pokémon, a Gameboy, a trading card game, television series and movies swept schools across the country. Exported from Japan, this game of catching cute mythical creatures from the wild and training them up for battle with friends and enemies alike proved thoroughly addictive. Nearly two decades later and Pokémon – which […]
08
Jul
Jul
Sometimes finding the issue is an easy one – if only everything was this simple!