Month June 2018

Lobsters are terrifying immortal beings, sort of

Lobsters are immortal. Kind of.  Along with tasting delicious when dipped in butter and garlic, lobsters have another great trait: They constantly produce telomerase. Instead of dying of old age, the crustaceans just get bigger and bigger, thanks to their…

A Handmade (by Robots) Bike

Taking a lesson from the automotive industry on automation, Mokumono partnered up with 3D Hubs to robotically build the bada$$ bike you see here. Unlike other bikes that are usually manufactured with hundreds of parts and days of manual work…

A Fitness Tracker for Athletes

The use of technology to motivate and encourage people to increase their fitness levels through tracking, personal goals and real-time feedback is extremely popular now, and its presence has increased massively in recent years. But, what about technology that’s tailored…

Lies, damn lies and crypto analytics

For the past 12 years I’ve followed the rise of the startup — defined as a small business with global ambitions — from my perch at TechCrunch. During that period I watched business reporting change from a sleepy backwater on…

How NASA saved the world

NASA literally saved us from a planet-wide apocalypse in the 1980’s. If they hadn’t noticed a huge problem in our atmosphere, life on Earth would have collapsed by the year 2065. Following is a transcript of the video. The early ‘80s…