With every iOS update, Apple makes it harder for hackers to jailbreak its software — but it seems there’s still plenty of work to be done. At the Mobile Security Conference (MOSEC) in Shanghai today, Chinese jailbreak team Pangu revealed it already has Cydia running under iOS 10. We’re still waiting for an iOS 9.3.2…
Author: Ahmad Alhasan
An approaching graduate who aims to change the world through inventions, IT, energy technologies and social relief. An avid and persistent learner who looks to bypass the normal path of university and meaningless work by joining a dynamic team and jumpstarting my career in producing real world technological solutions.
How To Make Your Own Ghost Phone
This ‘ghost phone’ screen can be seen using only smart glasses How would you like your smartphone to be read only by you through a set of glasses. If somebody else views it, he/she could see just a blank screen but you can see all the Apps through smart glasses. Is this possible? Yes it…
‘Hourglass’: The Liquid Battery That Runs on Gravity
Scientists at MIT have designed an ingenious new concept for a battery that operates on the same fundamental principal as an hourglass—it relies on gravity to generate energy. They described the device in a recent paper forEnergy and Environmental Science. The fundamental concept of a battery is quite simple. There is a positive and negative…
Hyperloop-One co-founder and CTO leaves company
One of the start-ups trying to make Elon Musk’s Hyperloop a reality just lost its co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. Hyperloop One, a start-up competing with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to release the first Hyperloop, confirmed to Tech Insider that co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan is no longer with the company. “Co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan has decided to…
Mars Has a Kind of Dune We’ve Never Seen Before
The red deserts of Mars have revealed a surprise: an altogether new type of sand dune. Today a team of scientists led by Mathieu Lapotre, a planetary geologist at Caltech, announced a new type of geological formation in the Martian sands. Lapotre’s team discovered waves of windswept sand that are totally unlike the two features…
Can You Sense A “Force Field” Around Your Body?
It sounds like something out of the supernatural, but new scientific evidence suggests that us mortal humans actually have sense comparable to the feeling of a “force field” around us that can help us avoid harm. A recent study published in the journal Cognition looked at a phenomenon that allows us to “feel” things in our “peripersonal space,”…
Can You Transform Rectangles Into Circles in the Mirror
What in the sorcerous hells is this? Kokichi Sugihara’s ‘Rectangles and Circles’ illusion is a mind-bending visual trip that turns squares into circles and circles into squares right in front of your face. Different shapes are placed at a mirror and what you see in front of you is totally different from what you see…
Woman Arrested for Plot to Kill Stephen Hawking
An American woman was arrested this week for flooding Stephen Hawking’s email with death threats, then stalking him at an astronomy festival in the Canary Islands. The woman, a US citizen who lives in Norway, sent emails to Hawking telling him she would kill him at the Starmus Festival, a legendary astronomy conference that’s happening…
Man marries his iPhone after falling in love for years
Aaron Chervenak is one of the many grooms who has experienced a quickie wedding in Las Vegas. On May 20th, at the Little Las Vegas Chapel, Chervenak was married to the love of his life, his Apple iPhone. Chapel owner Michael Kelly said, “At first it was like what? And then I was like… Alright…
Can We Create Artificial Gravity?
Yes, we can. We can totally create the artificial gravity seen in movies like2001: A Space Odyssey or Elysium, it’ll just cost a lot of freaking money and require a lot of freaking resources. Real Engineering explains how centrifugal force works as artificial gravity and estimates (using math cribbed from how much the ISS costs)…
Convert your USB Charger Into a Linux Computer
Chris Robinson has made projects like handheld Raspberry Pi powered Linux terminal and this Linux computer project is even smaller. This Linux computer fits inside a modified USB charger plug and runs on a very small power. This design uses ODROID-W development board, which is Raspberry Pi and Raspbian compatible. You’ll also be needing a…
iPhone 7 new dark concept
Apple might be going back to black with the iPhone 7, making it the darkest iPhone since the days of the iPhone 3Gs. We got a major crush on the deep blue iPhone 7 earlier this month, but now that mockup artist Martin Hajek has whipped up this Space Black creation, we’re torn between what Apple’s…
