The Birth of a Real-Life Hoverboard
Speaking of Back to the Future, the scientists from Paris Diderot University successfully created a real-life working hoverboard. It’s not perfect, yet, but it looks very promising. Watch the video below.
Tags: HoverBoard, Quantum Levitation, Superconductivity
Quixey: An App Search Engine that Understands You
Where do you usually search for apps? Google? Bing? Yahoo!? – Or the native search engine of the platform that caters the apps? Well, you can ditch the search engines that I’ve mentioned and head over to Quixey. It’s your one stop search tool for any app that you’ll need. You can search for iOS apps, Andriod Apps, Windows Apps, Chrome Apps, Firefox Add Ons, Etc.
What makes Quixey different from your favorite search engine is that not only is it focused on apps, it understands natural language. This means that it will understand you and deliver the app you need. It will help you find the app that’s suitable for you, ranked based on their algorithm. You need not type the exact name of the app or keywords that describes the app if you’re looking for a task specific app for your needs.
How do they do this?
Quixey invented Functional Search specifically for apps. With Quixey, you do not need to know an app’s name or its official description to find the right app. Unlike traditional search engines, Quixey constantly scans blogs, review sites, forums and social media outlets to learn what each app can do and how people use it. Quixey uses this data to help users find the apps they need across all platforms. Since we have a thorough understanding of each app, Functional Search is not dependent on keywords.
Watch the short video to get a glimpse of Quixey in action.
The long video is from an interview by Robert Scoble.
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Tags: Android, app, Applications, Blackberry, chrome, Firefox, iPad, iphone, Mac, OS X, search-engine, Symbian, WebOS, Windows, Windows Phone
Awesome Quantum Levitation and Quantum Trapping Demo
The superconductivity group at Tech Aviv University, led by Prof. Guy Deutscher, are studying the, yet unknown, mechanism of superconductivity in high temperature superconductors. They are also dedicated in making the amazing physics of superconductors accessible and exciting for young and adults through the unique and counter-intuitive phenomena of ‘quantum trapping’ and ‘quantum levitation’. Watch the awesome video below.
Suspending a superconducting disc above or below a set of permanent magnets. The magnetic field is locked inside the superconductor ; a phenomenon called ‘Quantum Trapping’.
Source: [QuantumLevitation]
Tags: Levitation, Physics, Quantum Levitation, Quantum Trapping, Superconductivity
Steve Wozniak Talks About Steve Jobs and the iPhone 4S Product Demo
It seems that the technical way of delivering the iPhone 4S product demo made Steve Wozniak a little afraid for Apple’s future.
Source: [TechCrunch]
Tags: Apple, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, video
A Minimalistic MP3 Downloader
Looking for a new way to download MP3s? Try Mielophone. It’s a minimalistic application for searching, listening, downloading and discovering new music. It mashes up together databases like MusicBrainz, Last.FM and BBCRadio to deliver complete info about songs, artists and albums. And uses unique plugin system to search for publicly available mp3s and streams for desired songs. In other words, it gives you the free will to download or stream music. Your choice. Oh, and it also comes in a Windows 8 style interface.
There are two ways to install the application. You can download the generic AIR package as well as Adobe AIR Runtime which requires administrator access or you can download the platform-specific package and install it in a way common to selected platform. Having said that, Mielophone is available for Windows, Mac OS-X and Linux to maximize the…um..music sharing… reach.
Check out the video demo below and some screenshots:
Tags: Download MP3, mp3, MP3 Downloader, Music Sharing, Music Streaming
