Happy Thanksgiving! Now here’s an Angry Uncle Bot to help you practice talking to family

If you’re like us, you have at least one relative that you avoid talking to, especially about politics, religion, and other landmine conversational topics. Thanks to Thanksgiving, you’ll be talking to that relative today… (Dun-dun-DUNNNN) Thankfully, The New York Times has your training exercise for the big moment right HERE. Click the link to interact […]

Take a walk in virtual reality – literally

One of the disappointments with VR is that we’re tempted to get up and walk around the virtual environment, which is both impractical and dangerous in small spaces. To solve that problem, Jamie Hyneman of Mythbusters fame is working on “electric shoes” to use with VR games, where “microcomputers in the shoes control the mini-treadmills […]