Here’s something incredibly fun for the Christmas season. Maker of last year’s ‘Chiristmas Lights Hero’, Ric Turner (former Disney ‘imagineerR 17; and special effects specialist) is back again this year, with a brand new game on his front porch. This year, he has come up with ‘Snowball Blaster’. The objective is to dodge snowballs …

Sounds like something straight out of a science-fiction movie, but brace yourselves, it’s today’s reality. This amazing new material is now being developed by the researchers in Arizona State. It is said to be self-diagnosing and self-healing, which means that it can detect the presence of damage and regenerate itself. The material uses “shape-memory& #8221; …

In vein of my last article on augmented reality, here’s another technology on Augmented Reality being developed by some innovative Japanese University Students. This time, the augmentation is not on the visual, but on your taste buds. At SFC Open Research Forum 2010, Keio University’s Yasuaki Kakehi Laboratory revealed the TagCandy, a food texture augmentation ...

Tired of the boring commute to work every day? The civilized, tarred road not enough of a challenge (even with all the potholes) for you? Then you might just want to try riding over unpave …

One of the more interesting sights I saw in Melbourne was the Eureka 88 which at 297 metres is the third tallest building in Australia (Q1 in Australia’s Gold Coast is the tallest, while Sydney’s Centrepoint Tower is the second tallest). This is not the ideal photo of Eureka 88 but it’s one of my ...

Melbourne is one of the more happening cities in Australia and it’s been years since I was last there. Unknowingly I booked to arrive during AFL (Aussie Rules) semi-final weekend… that explains why hotels were so fully booked! Anyway I stumbled across the Vibe Carlton Hotel online. It is located in Melbourne’s city fringe in ...

Port Bouvard is in the city of Mandurah which is around an hour’s drive south of Perth. Mandurah is also the second largest city in Western Australia. In this area you will find some of the most beautiful canal homes in the world. Take a look at these photos and you will see what I ...

For our last night in Bangkok, we chose Citadines Sukhumvit 8. This means that the hotel is at Sukhumvit 8 and it is not to be confused with other Citadines around the area like Citadines Sukhumvit 16. While the first two hotels are more like boutique hotel in their concept, Citadines Sukhumvit 8 is a ...

Our next choice of hotel was a lot better as it had none of the minuses of the first one. This time, we selected Fusion Suites which was close to the Asok BTS station (five minutes and you are there!) and had friendly staff we can communicate with. Although we arrived at just 9am after ...

When deciding on where to stay for my trip to Bangkok, we found many hotels that looked really interesting online. As we could not really decide on one, we booked three different hotels for the three nights that we were there. What they have in common is that they are all in Sukhumvit area which ...