Google Glass: The future, or a future pain in the arse?

Google Glass is essentially magic, and innovation is a good thing. Advances in science and technology move humans forward, for the most part. Even the most innocuous invention can have a huge impact, if not immediately, then perhaps somewhere down the line.

But that doesn't mean everyone has to like it. A restaurant in Seattle has caused a bit of furor by banning them before they're even available on the mass-market.

Tech Interview - Dave Bedwood from LivesOn.org

You may remember a few weeks ago I wrote a startling and delightfully informative and witty piece about LivesOn, the experimental service which promises that when your heart stops beating, you won't stop tweeting. You can read that thing HERE, but if you're too lazy then let me summarise it; 

LivesOn.org analyzes your Twitter feed and, over time, learns to mimic your posting style and personality so that when you inevitably die it can simply slide into your place and keep you alive via social media. 

New Tech Allows You to Reach Through The Screen

The MIT Media Lab have unveiled their latest gadget.

The inForm tech allows users remotely interact with the real world by simulating movements on their end. This is how they describe the it:

Get Drunk Without the Hangover - Science Shows Us How!

Great news student boozers! Scientists are currently developing a drug which imitates the feelings and effects of being drunk, without any of the negatives.

That means no hangovers, no liver damage, no addiction... no problems!

It works by targeting neurotransmitters in the brain directly, giving the taker the feelings of pleasure and disinhibition common in drunkenness. Experiments showed that some cases were “indistinguishable” from the actual effects of drinking, yet because it acts directly, it can also be immediately remedied with an antidote.

How I Met Your Mother Cheerleader Effect Proved

Hit US sitcom 'How I Met Your Mother' has been proved correct by a scientific theory that says people are more attractive when they are in a group.

A character in the show Barney Stinson, played by Neil Patrick Harris, proposes the "Cheerleader Effect", whereby people are deemed to increase in sex appeal while surrounded by a group.

New Pants Filter Out Farts

We've all been there. You've had a big dinner, or a few ales, or maybe you just need to shit but for some reason can't and now you're guffing up a storm and there's only so much you can blame on the dog or dying relative.

Oreos Are As Addictive As Cocaine

Oreos are as addictive as cocaine.

Just like the title of this article, this is totally misleading! No, oreos are not as addictive as cocaine, though a new study with rats has found that they are more desirable to rice cakes. Much in the same way that saline is apparently less tasty than crack.

Asteroid to Hit Earth in 2032

Sod it, take out that high APR credit card and put extra bleached sugar on your cereal. You have a couple of decades left then you’re toast. 

Robots wage war on jellyfish swarms

Most of our jobs are being taken over by robots. This is due to several reasons;

1. Robots move way faster. I mean, have you ever waited half an hour for a Bargain Bucket because some newbie was manning the tills at Kentucky?
2. Robots put up with more crap than a parked car at a seaside. Would you like to be kicked repeatedly because a can of Fanta Fruit Twist failed to drop out of your ass
3. Robots have an off button. 

Why You Will Meet Aliens in Your Lifetime

You may be one of those people who believe that aliens already walk among us. I might be inclined to agree after visiting my local high street on a week day. There are some truly unique life forms in that town (Who thought Wigan? Shame on you.)

Turd Burger Anyone?

The Japanese are clearly more technologically advanced than the rest of us. Their toilets are smarter than our children and the only reason they don't all walk around in enormous metal Gundam suits is because it's not polite. But I have to think that this latest innovation might be taking things to a sort of limit.

Scientist Mitsuyuki Ikeda from the Okayama Laboratory has apparently always been bothered by waste of all kinds. He hates to see perfectly good materials discarded when they could just as easily be repurposed. Unfortunately he's not conducting a study into turning your old wine bottles into candle holders. He wants you to turn your old shit into food.

Get Your Ass To Mars

A Danish not-for-profit company is offering you, the unwashed and dangerous public, the chance to become one of the first human settlers on the red planet Mars. You'll be rigorously trained, flown in a shuttle to actual space, land on Mars and help to establish a full on self sustaining colony. The only downside, I suppose, is that you can never come back. 

Australian Scientists Eradicate Hangovers

Scientists at Queensland University in Australia believe they've discovered a way to once and for all wipe hangovers off the face of your brain, and toilet. As we all expected they eventually would.

How to Make a Cockroach Beatbox

Neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses by dissecting a cockroach live on stage.

Court rules against publication of luxury car security weaknesses

There is a special respect for publishing academic research in the world of study, which is that thing we students do between pub crawls and juggling overdrafts and bills.

In the past it's tended to be governments that feel ill at ease with such things, but big business have now moved into this dubious sphere. Recently car manufacturer Volkswagen, who broadcast their 'Get in. Get happy.' advertisement at this years Super Bowl, thought a planned academic paper on security weaknesses in high end cars, such as Lamborghinis, Bentleys and Porsches would help car thieves get in, and get very happy as they drove away. 

Yeah, science! Now You Can Spill Beer All Over Your Work Shirt

WORDS: Ben Cole

Sometimes it seems like Science's only purpose for existing is to scare the crap out of people, and do loads of really cool stuff at the same time. No matter what you may think, Science is pretty cool.  

Although, sometimes it borders on alchemy. You know, that thing that people used to get burnt as a witch for trying out? Yeah well, luckily for us, it's still going strong and has produced something in the US.