Looking eerily like something out of old low budget Sci-Fi movies, this pyramid electric car weighs 8,000-pounds and is powered by 80-batteries, with four engines. It can supposedly reach speeds of up to 45mph. I love how the canopy pops open like a Colonial Viper from Battlestar Galactica. It was built by a Father and […]

Looking back over a long career, architect Moshe Safdie digs deep into four extraordinary projects to talk about the unique choices he made on each building — choosing where to build, pulling information from the client, and balancing the needs and the vision behind each project. Sketches, plans and models show how these grand […]

Some women say stimulating a certain part of the vagina triggers powerful orgasms, but medicine has not been able to pin down the exact location.
Researchers told New Scientist magazine they found an area of thicker tissue among the women reporting orgasms.
But specialists warned there could be other reasons for this difference.

Snap this stretchy piece of rubber in two, and it will heal itself back into a stretchy piece of rubber again. The material’s eerie ability to ‘heal’ itself means that it can broken, stuck and stretched time and time again.

Okay, so we don’t know for sure what they are saying, German we think, but the demonstration speaks for itself. Quite an impressive display of next generation holography.
 

Steve James is serious about the environment. He built his own home near Dumfries, Scotland out of natural and recycled materials for a total cost of about £4,000.

A U.S. graduate student won second place in a “Greener Gadgets Conference” competition inventing a floor lamp powered by gravity.
The LED lamp, named Gravia, is an acrylic column a little more than 4 feet high. The entire column glows when activated by electricity generated by the slow, silent fall of a mass that spins a […]

OK, so it’s not called the steak toaster, it’s called the Ariete SteakHouse Indoor Grill, but that’s pretty much what it is. It holds your hunk of meat vertically, keeping the heating elements on the side so all the fatty, greasy juices drip down to a tray and don’t smoke.

By now you can see that we are undergoing some significant changes here on the Impact Lab. We have changed the look, the function, and the whole operation of the site. We are now using a modified version of WordPress as our platform , and you will see a variety of unique […]

China’s top Internet search engine, Baidu.com, has been censured by a government-sponsored watchdog for allegedly helping spread sexually explicit photos that appear to feature several Hong Kong stars.
 

The research team from Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and the UCL Institute of Child Health found that pre-term infants fed enriched milk in their early weeks had a higher IQ in adulthood.