Coming Soon: Your Personal Flying Car
It’s 2013. Where’s my flying car? Answer: about eight years away. Terrafugia is a Massachusetts company previously best known for the Transition, which was best described as a plane you can drive. This one looks more like a car that can fly. Yes!
Learn more here.
Image courtesy of Terrafugia
World’s First 3D-Printed Gun Fired on Video
Can guns really be 3D-printed? The answer to that question is a simple yes. If you don’t believe it, just watch Cody Wilson, the man behind the world’s first 3D-printed gun, firing the weapon on video.
Watch for yourself: http://on.mash.to/10dvhvZ
Image courtesy of YouTube, Defense Distributed
Beer Drones To Deliver Brew to Concertgoers
During August’s OppiKoppi Music Festival, attendees can order beers from their phones to be delivered to the event’s District 9 campsite.
Read more here.
Drone image via iStockphoto, andreart; beer image via iStockphoto, francisblack.
Digital Camera Features Designs Inspired by Bug Eyes
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a digital camera inspired by the compound eyes of arthropods — that is, animals such as insects, spiders and crustaceans. Instead of the single-lens eyes that humans have, compound eyes are made up of many small visual units.
Find out more here.
Image courtesy of Flickr, therealbrute
This Mask Gives You Superhuman Abilities
Fans of Iron Man, take notice: A group of students at the Royal College of Art in London have created two masks that can give you superhuman sight and hearing.
Learn more here.
Image courtesy of Tim Bouckley
Adobe Goes All-In on Subscription Pricing Model
Adobe’s flagship product, Creative Suite, has a new name and a host of new and updated features now that it’s evolved into Adobe Creative Cloud. But the biggest change in the software is how Adobe will be selling it: It’s going to be subscription-only.
Read more here.
Image courtesy of Adobe
Report: Amazon Working on 3D-Capable Smartphone
For more than a year, there have been rumors that Amazon is working on a smartphone. Now, The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Amazon is actually working on two.
Learn more here.
Image via Getty, Lionel Bonaventure
Your Future Samsung TV May Bend and Twist
According to a newly published patent from Samsung, the tech giant is developing a TV with a flexible display that viewers could bend by using a remote control, just like changing the channel.
Find out more here.
Image via Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
These Special Gloves Can Detect Toxic Substances
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT in Regensburg, Germany now have a clever solution for people who work in jobs that expose them to harmful substances that are hard for human senses to detect. Their creation is a protective glove that changes colors when it detects toxic substances in the surrounding air.
Learn more here.
Thumbnail and image courtesy of Fraunhofer EMFT/Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.
Finally, a Wristwatch to Match Your $1.3 Million Ferrari Supercar
Struggling to find a wristwatch that matches your shiny new $1.3 million LaFerrari supercar? Try the Hublot MP-05, designed alongside Ferrari engineers to be the perfect timepiece accompaniment to Ferrari’s new top-end, 963 horsepower hybrid beast.
Take a look for yourself here.
Image via Pierre Andrieu/AFP/Getty Images
It was a big week in tech, and chances are, you probably missed one or two big stories. Lucky you — we are here, closely following the world of tech for Top Technology Discussions Of The Week.
The biggest story of the week was the world’s first 3D-printed gun, caught on camera firing for the first time, just as Cody Wilson, the world’s most famous 3D-printing gunsmith, promised two weeks ago.
There were also big stories in the tech business world. Amazon is reportedly working on two smartphones with 3D displays that work without glasses. And Adobe shocked pretty much everyone announcing that the next version of its Creative Suite will be subscription-only and cloud-based.
SEE ALSO: Previous editions of Top Technology Discussions
In the weird tech news department, a Massachusetts company announced that a flying car might be just 8 years away. And next summer, at a concert festival in South Africa, drones will be delivering beers. Yes, you heard that right, drones aren’t good only for spying and delivering missiles — or burritos.
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