Technical Innovation

App To Help Blind Text

The Wowster on an app to help blind people text An app has been created to help blind people text using touchscreen devices. The app developed at Georgia Tech will be available for iPhone and android devices. Using a braille writing system, it is claimed that the app makes it up to six times faster for people without sight to text. Currently the only ...

Bank Security in Tatters

The Wowster on bank security being hacked Banks security is not quite what it used to be. Certainly it is no longer safe to leave your money with them. What with casino banking and hackers cracking new online banking, where can you ...

How to find out who unfriends you

How can you find out who unfriends you on Facebook? The Wowster tells all. There you are flicking mindlessly through your friends when suddenly you notice you have a lot fewer of them. Eh? It happens suddenly and you are not sure why. ...

Fly you to the moon

The Wowster on Gingrich plan to fly you to the moon As Newt Gingrich was planning to fly you to the moon, little green men were threatening to send their representatives to Congress. I joke, but not by much. Does Gingrich not ...

Invisibility Cloak

The Wowser assesses the possibilities of an invisibility cloak How long before you can make yourself unseen with an invisibility cloak? Well not long if a recent breakthrough is anything to go by. Japanese researchers have cloaked a three dimensional object making ...

Is There Life On Venus?

The Wowster asks the question...is there life on Venus? A Russian scientist has set the cat among the pigeons, or rather a scorpion among anyone living on Venus. Leonid Ksanfomalti of the Space Research Insitute has re-examined the pictures taken by the ...