SHAKE YOUR BODY YEAH!
So you want a portable charger for your phone or mp3 player but the solar powered iPod is years away from reality. Instead you could try the Dance Charge.
A company called GotWind worked with music company Orange to create the Dance Charge. Weighing 180 grams the charger wraps around your arm and […]
Sure, Cibo Matto taught me how to know my chicken, but they are so much more important than that. Check out this amazing video of their tune “Sugar Water” and think for a moment how difficult it must have been to film.
Image of a meteorite crater in Arizona.
A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day.
Modern Solaris Kitchen Workstation
We have already come across some ingenious kitchen concepts, including the GE’s Concept Kitchen of the Future, Floating Kitchen Island concept, Korean Z Kitchen Island, Outpost Kitchen, MAN kitchen, and the green Aion kitchen. Today, we have with us the Solaris Workstation from the house of Ernestomeda.
It may not be crazy high-tech architecture, but there’s something about this Chilean home hanging over the Pacific that has me glued to the screen with a mixed feeling of complete awe, peace, and envy. (Pics)
Suspended 165 feet in the air.
Dinner in the Sky. Heard of that? Having your meal on the table suspended 165 feet in the air with chairs that swivel 180 degrees. It was introduced in Europe last year and consists of a platform suspended from a crane.
Hospitals might not have to spend precious funds on expensive neuro-surgery equipment thanks to a mechanical engineer from the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Ajay Mahajan, a professor has developed an ultrasonic-based locational system to identify problems within the brain and thankfully it isn’t too invasive.
Reflect Table
You know how when you invite your special someone’s parents for dinner for the first time and you just can think of things to talk to them about? Well, since the weather can only sustain you for so long, you might wanna invest in this wonderful “Reflect” table.
A drug developed using nanotechnology and a fungus that contaminated a lab experiment may be broadly effective against a range of cancers, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday.
Just because its a myth doesn’t mean its wrong, right?
What’s common between the Lochness monster, Yeti and radiation from PC monitor causing cancer? Well, they all are myths! One of the long timer in the list of tech related myths is switching off power without shutting down damages the PC.
Also, many believe that as their […]
The theories are great conversation starters, but nothing we can hang our hats on
One of the most interesting questions considered by astrophysicists deals with the start of our universe. Indeed, there is a great deal of speculation on the subject, with different theories about how the universe began, and what may have existed before the […]
The Ecooter, created by by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), is a concept that is “designed to create a driving trend in urban societies.” We know its electrically-powered, but if you’re looking for more details, please hold. The Ecooter will be on display at the 2007 EICMA International Cycling Exposition in Milan, Italy next month, […]
A 21-year-old student from the UK has designed a cardboard bicycle that he has dubbed “the ultimate green machine.” Supporting anyone up to 168 pounds, the frame, which costs around $6 to make, is made from the cardboard used in industrial packaging, whilst the wheels and chain are standard bike issue, and will cost around […]
Jason Statham - Stubble beards are in…
Researchers in Britain have found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards - in fact, the fair sex prefers them for love, sex and marriage. According to the researchers, stubbly men offer women the best worlds - not […]
Indoor Golf Arena
If you have read your classics with diligence, you would remember the little boy who saved Holland from the sea. Sticking his tiny little finger into a hole in the dyke, he saved his countrymen from the cold ocean waters.
Designed to give the participant an unforgettable experience of barrel rolls, spins and loops, the Evento’s Buzzball, designed by Timothy Brien is radical new concept.
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision — an eternity at the speed of thought.
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There’s something magical about this instrument
The AirPiano is an innovative musical interface which allows playing and controlling software instruments simply by moving hands in the air.
The dining room will surely be constructed out of old tray tables…
A California woman is going ahead with the construction of a house made of elements from a 747 Jumbo jet.
Francie Rehwald wanted her house to look “feminine”, have curves and be eco-friendly. Her architect’s answer was: “Let’s use a 747!”
The wing of […]
A Dying Breed?
As the birthrate in European countries drops well below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children born to every woman, to somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 children — the declining population will first be felt in the playgrounds.
When her friends told her the food was exceptional, she truly had no idea it would be this good!
This week’s photos have a way of reversing gravity, making tornadoes spin backwards, and having extra socks show up in your dryer. All wrongs will be righted, all illnesses cured, and all hangnails will have better hang-time. […]
Buying time with a rich guy just got more expensive
A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.
Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening […]
People who dump cable TV tend to go out and buy pink chairs
Historically, it’s been a general truth that even lower-end consumers doggedly hang on to their cable TV service in times of economic stress. Even severe economic stress. They routinely cut back on heat and food as they continue to pay for that nightly […]
The holodeck is still a few years off, but this is an interesting step forward
The ICT Graphics Lab at USC has created a low-cost volumetric 3-D display that brings Princess Leia one step closer to begging Obi-Wan for help. The system projects high-speed video onto a rapidly spinning mirror. As the mirror turns, it reflects […]
It was widely reported in the media, that a Soviet scientist in the late 1920s by the name of Sergei Brukhonenko actually managed to keep the severed head of a dog alive. The dog’s head was reportedly connected to a primitive heart-lung machine called an “autojector” (or that’s what the inventor dubbed it). The device […]