Better known for its stylish and sturdy vacuum cleaners and other household appliances, Dyson surprised everyone in September 2017 when it said it was developing a “radically different” electric car . The latest? Dyson has abandoned its effort to build the vehicle, as it’s been unable to find a way to make it commercially viable. Related Videos Company founder and chief engineer Sir James Dyson broke the news in an email to employees that was seen by the BBC . In it, Dyson said his team had developed “a fantastic car” that was already undergoing tests, but added that despite its best efforts, it “simply cannot make it commercially viable.” He went on to say the company had been through “a serious process” to find a buyer for the project but had failed to attract one. Dyson was at pains to point out that abandoning the endeavor did not mark “a project failure, or a failure of the team,” adding that it had achieved a lot considering “the enormity and complexity of … [Read more...] about Dyson Says It’s Put the Brakes on the Development of Its Electric Car | Digital Trends
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Digital Trends’ top 5 viral videos of the week, November 5, 2010 | Digital Trends
We are back with a new selection of videos to tickle your fancy. These videos are not all from this week, but they all made us laugh or caused our jaws to drop recently. Enjoy! Extreme Unicycle Related Videos X-TREME unicycle! Generally, you can add “extreme” to anything to make it sound more badass, but it helps to be able to back it up. Rider Max Schulze makes the argument that people that ride bikes with two wheels are sissies. Luchadore’s gone wild Although wrestling may not be entirely real, it is hard to fake the amazing acrobatics of this determined Mexican luchadore. It may be fake, but it is still awesome. Matrix Ping-Pong An oldie, but a goodie. The Japanese are weird, and for once it works out in their favor. If you haven’t seen this video, you are in for a treat, and if you have, this one never gets old. The Red Shirt Guy from Blizzcon There are so many cruel, cruel jokes to make about this kid who went to Blizzard’s annual … [Read more...] about Digital Trends’ top 5 viral videos of the week, November 5, 2010 | Digital Trends
Digital Trends Live: Samsung’s Upcoming Galaxy Note 10, Harry Potter AR | Digital Trends
On this episode of Digital Trends Live, host Greg Nibler and Luke Larsen, DT’s section editor of computing, dive into the trending tech topics of the day, including Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note 10 unveiling, YouTube’s AR makeup tutorials, Niantic’s new Harry Potter AR game, a Tesla pickup built by a YouTuber, and more. Nibler then speaks with Olga Andrienko, head of global marketing for SEMrush , about the growing popularity of voice search, and the future of optimization in voice recognition. Kevin Mann, co-founder and chief product officer of CallRail , then joins us to discuss how the company transforms call data and inbound lead generation for small businesses. Finally, Ken Tomita, chief executive officer and co-founder of Grovemade , sits down with Nibler to talk about the company’s wooden iPhone cases and chargers, and how the craft of woodworkingis used to create beautiful, functional desktop art. Editors' … [Read more...] about Digital Trends Live: Samsung’s Upcoming Galaxy Note 10, Harry Potter AR | Digital Trends
Digital Trends’ top 5 viral videos of the week, December 10, 2010 | Digital Trends
We are back with a new selection of videos to tickle your fancy. These videos are not all from this week, but they all made us laugh or caused our jaws to drop recently. Enjoy! A collection of some of the more insane sports tricks around Each week we tend to add a video or two of people showing off their sporting acumen. This week we are doing something a bit different and introducing a theme of sorts. Spurred on by the sight of the first video set in Russia, it inspired us to compile a few of our favorite clips of people that defy the notion of evolution by their sheer existence. As a result, many of these videos are older than usual, but hopefully still entertaining. Enjoy! Related Videos In Russia, you don’t choose to evolve, evolution chooses to evolve you! While typically we use a highly complex system of algorithms to choose the order of the videos that we like to call “alphabetical”, but in this case, this video is what kicked off our Darwin Awards edition and … [Read more...] about Digital Trends’ top 5 viral videos of the week, December 10, 2010 | Digital Trends
Digital Trends’ top 5 viral videos for February 4, 2011 | Digital Trends
We are back with a new selection of videos to tickle your fancy. These videos are not all from this week, but they all made us laugh or caused our jaws to drop recently. Enjoy! Related Videos The Chinese Support Obama… and Chicken Is this video controversial? Probably to somebody somewhere. Is it funny in a weird way? Definitely. The Chinese branch of KFC have decided to aim big in terms of sponsorships, and who is a bigger celebrity around the world than President Obama (or in this case an Obama lookalike)? A second ad then came from the Chinese Popeye’s, where a fake Glenn Beck announced that with every yen spent at KFC, the people were supporting a move towards a big government that wanted to take over all aspect of their lives, to which the Chinese population seemed strangely unphased by. Egypt Compilation If you haven’t heard about the things going on in Egypt, please read a news site. Any news site, they are all covering it. The video below is a … [Read more...] about Digital Trends’ top 5 viral videos for February 4, 2011 | Digital Trends