Picture the movie “Snakes on a plane” starred by Samuel L. Jackson. Now remove him from the picture, add a 90-passenger plane and a single Egyptian Cobra instead of the variety of snakes in the movie. Yes, it has happened in real life. An Egyptian ...

When any character is detained (handcuffed) in movies, they easily escape by opening it with some pin. It used to fascinate me until I read on how to do it on the net. Next came the plasticuffs and it boggled my mind. One cannot possibly escape it until ...

Radios were considered a thing of the past until some 5-7 years ago. I still remember as a kid, my grandfather used to listen to radio early in the morning and no one else would touch it. Ten years later, I bought a phone which had a radio feature. My ...

People who watch animated movies will recognize the lamp anywhere, the pixar lamp which is a sort of mascot for the animated movie producers. Three students from Victoria University of Wellington, Adam Ben-Dror, Joss Doggett and Shanshan Zhou have made ...

Paul Wallich is a father, who had the responsibility of dropping his son to the bus stop each day for his school. The bus stop was 400 meters down the hill from where he lived. He used to fantasize that he would be sitting at home, keeping an eye on his ...

Finding a lost phone is easy. Give it a missed call from another phone and it literally calls out for you. What if the phone is on silent or you have lost your car keys. At times in the middle of a program, you want to change the channel and the remote ...

When kids are watching cartoons, the genre is mostly action in which the protagonist is a hero who saves the day from evil. Some have exoskeleton armored hero/heroine while other save the world by sitting in mega robots and fighting bad guys. Those kids ...

Admit it or not everyone is a Facebook or Twitter addict to some extent. I for one am addicted to both (right hand to God) as I have the apps on my phone and whenever I get the chance, I log in for the latest updates. But to go to such an extent as ...

It is a known fact that removing paint from any surface to which it has adhered is a cumbersome activity. We know this from personal experience or observing others who are laboring for this particular task. Now, thinking on a larger scale, how much effort ...

Google has officially announced that it has updated the online Google Maps for 45°, aerial and satellite imagery. The new aerial and satellite images include 164 cities and 108 countries/ regions. The updated imagery is being included in both Google ...