We all remember that feeling when you were a kid on Christmas morning and you unwrap the gift of your dreams. Sheer joy just pulsates through you as you scream with jubilation. Then, you grow up into an adult, you mature, have responsibilities, kids, a mortgage, and lose that sense of excitement when it comes to opening presents.
Because lets face it, the gift of socks is just not that exciting. But the thing is, that’s not strictly true. Because somewhere deep inside of you that excited kid still exists.
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Robot technology has just taken one step closer to becoming reality, the next gen of SSD cards has arrived and, according to this video, it can turn into a robot, travel the world at incredible speeds and charm the pants of any woman. But maybe those last three should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Oh yeah, it can also run your computer pretty damn fast as well, but that doesn’t seem too much of a biggie for the new Samsung 850 Pro.
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When you choose a buddy, just make sure they are the real deal! Just like Buddy the dog, the good thing about him is that he’s the sort of pet you could get if your skills at looking after animals aren’t up to scratch. Like, you forget to feed them for instance.
The bad thing about Buddy is that he’ll not give you the companionship that most people seek from a pet, that sense of interaction. You know, the fact that they’re actually the real thing!
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Ever seen a bear do its laundry? Probably not because they don’t like to air their dirty garments in public, they’re far too sophisticated for that. But this camera crew managed to capture the rare moment when a huge brown bear comes out of the snowy wilderness.
Probably to take time out from all that grizzling, drop its fat pants, and take them for a spin. Not even Attenborough caught that on tape.
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Loading Ball Larry puts his annoying spin on everything he touches. You’re probably already familiar with his work: He’s the guy who crashed your app, right before you hit save.
The jerk who turned that ten-minute task of yours into a full hour of frustration—spinning, spinning, spinning your day away. Stop Larry before he grinds your world to a halt.
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These days most us conduct our love lives through a laptop, whether that be Skyping your other half across the divide of continents or whether the love affair is between you and your computer. But when your computer starts playing up your relationship can hit the rocks, which is why an upgrade is essential every now and then.
4 SSD Angels took 1 ex-ambulance & 50 Samsung 830 SSDs and went to find out, traveling around in an ambulance replacing crappy hard drives with pimped up solid-state drives.
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And to think, science-fiction told us the machine uprising would come from defense technology, but no, as ever reality is far more ordinary. You’re just un-boxing your new Central Station monitor, you’re excited, you got some new gear, then the technological singularity slaps you in the face.
Next thing you know we’re being grown in pods while our mechanical overlords are harvesting our bioelectrical energy to snack on. Time to fight back.
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NASA might be able to put a man on the moon, but they haven’t launched a DIY weather balloon full of 200 paper planes into space yet, carrying messages from the world’s populace on hardcore SD Memory Cards, to the edge of the earth’s atmosphere–36,500 metres up–and paper-bombed Germany with them. That’s innovation!
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