When you’re no good at playing an instrument, this may be your only option for making music
Put on this outfit, and your whole body turns into a musical instrument. That’s the promise of the Pacer Suit, a design concept that measures electrical impulses of your muscles and turns them into music or sound effects.

One Funky Frog

Biologists have described a bizarre, hairy frog, which in a gruesome process, actively breaks its own bones to produce cat-like extendable claws. According to a report in New Scientist, the frog, known as Trichobatrachus robustus, has been described by David Blackburn and colleagues at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.
The researchers believe that [...]

Contact with your thinking membranes
Most standard office chairs weren’t designed with your total comfort in mind. Most companies throw a few pieces of plastic and cushions together and call it a seat, but what about our aching backs? Years of sitting in a computer chair can cause serious damage.

Analogy is the name of a clock by designer Jesson Yip.
Analogy is a typographic clock which fuses the immediacy of digital with the visual-spatial quality of analogue into a new hybrid format. Presenting an everyday object with a fresh twist.

 
 For people who think robots walking on the floor are too boring
A research organization has developed a new technology that enables some robots to scale walls.
Wall-climbing robots could be a boon for the US military, which could use them on reconnaissance or other missions in war zones, said Philip von Guggenberg, director of business development [...]

Grow on you #2
Lucy McRae and Bart Hess are artists working together to create fascinating images of genetic manipulation and beauty.
They describe their work as “instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body.”

18th Century Technology Finally Makes It’s Debut in New York and London
An arresting new artistic landmark is drawing crowds in London and New York, intrigued at being able to wave to each other through what is teasingly presented as a huge Trans Atlantic tunnel.
 

Varying mixtures of aggregate, sand and other binder materials used to create asphalt concrete samples

A great deal of effort is being invested towards discovering ways to make our world greener, with cars in particular being the focus of research and development initiatives. But what about the green credentials of the millions of miles of roads [...]

If you don’t take care of your plant, your plant will report you to the plant cops
Growing plants would be a lot easier if plants could show you what they need. That’s what the Pet Plant by Junyi Heo does. The very sleek looking pot measures soil conditions, temperature, humidity, and water – calculates [...]

 Even though virtual worlds are a fun place to hang out, they’re still not and effective business tool
New research from Gartner finds that nine out of 10 corporate attempts to use virtual worlds fail within the first 18 months. Virtual worlds could still play a vital role, however, in the future.

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Possibles sources of lead poisoning
In what may be the strongest link yet between lead exposure and crime rates, researchers at the University of Cincinnati on Tuesday released new evidence, spanning more than 20 years, that draws a direct relationship between the amount of lead in a child’s blood and the likelihood he or she will [...]

Bot dating has become a serious problem in Japan
A lady with no mood swings, doesn’t throw tantrums if asked to run errands, offers a divine massage without acting ‘hard to get’ and is full of energy all through the day…..impossible? Eat your words ‘coz LISA is what you have always expected from a woman – [...]

 
 Y-shaped nanotubes are ready-made transistors
For the first time, a research team led by Hongjie Dai, the J. G. Jackson and C. J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, has made transistors called “field-effect transistors”-a critical component of computer chips-with graphene that can operate at room temperature. Graphene is a form of carbon derived from graphite. Other graphene [...]

Lee Spievak’s finger took about four weeks to regrow
U.S. researchers are testing a regeneration powder that could help injured soldiers regrow fingers and other body parts lost in battle.

There’s a car that’s not slated for release until 2009 or 2010. It makes some wild claims. And no one in the media has driven it yet (since it’s still in production). But with those caveats in mind, continue on to drop your jaw at Hybrid Technologies’ upcoming still-nameless supercar.

A device to help some of the most impoverished farmers in Africa maximise their crop yields is being tested at London’s Kew Gardens.

Knock, knock, speaker there?

Ever heard the saying “If these walls could talk”? If this invention ever makes it into production, your walls soon could get a voice of their own. This new technology has the potential to turn just about any surface, including your walls, into a speaker.

Fly Like A Butterfly With The Gazelle

Globally, we are on the brink of a new commuting age; cars are too heavy, too inefficient, too dirty and too big to be viable in tomorrow’s traffic-clogged cities – and motorcycles are too dangerous and too hard to ride to be a real option for many. Perhaps the solution [...]

Sunlight, Sunbright, Won’t You Charge My iPod Right?

In a somewhat surprising move, Apple has patented a new device-coating solar film that could be used as an alternate method for charging gadgets such as iPhones and iPods. If implemented, it could allow one to lay their phone out in the sun for an hour to get [...]

 
 
If you are still not sure that cell phones are evil, this should convince you. Don’t ever try this!

A product that is long overdue
The Snap Capp is something very special, and yet is so simple. Simply put, the Snap Capp is “a plastic re-closable top designed to snap onto virtually all 12 and 16 ounce aluminum beverage cans”.

Obviously These Children Cannot Jump

Grown men have been leaping over rows of babies in the north Spanish village of Castrillo de Murcia in an annual rite meant to “ward off the Devil.”
Jumpers dressed as the Colacho, a character representing the Devil, bounded over clusters of bemused infants laid out on mattresses.

 We were kinda hoping for some new nano-sized snout pluggers
American researchers have identified several new potential insect repellents that are three times more potent than DEET, the active ingredient in most tick and insect repellents, according to a new study.

 
At a time when gas prices are at an all-time high, Americans have curtailed their driving at a historic rate.