Rob Spence looks you straight in the eye when he talks. So it’s a little unnerving to imagine that soon one of his hazel-green eyes will have a tiny wireless video camera in it that records your every move.

 
 E-Bag
The E-Bag from Hungarian designer Apor Püspöki cools your drink while you walk. How does it work? Quite simply: The rotating handle is attached to a dynamo that uses arm motions to charge a battery.

It’s In The Father’s Genes
A Newcastle University study involving thousands of families is helping prospective parents work out whether they are likely to have sons or daughters.

Dark Matter Mapped Out
Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious “dark matter” believed to dominate the universe’s mass. But the existing detectors have a problem: They also pick up particles of ordinary matter — hurtling neutrons that masquerade as the elusive dark-matter particles the instruments are [...]

 
Modern robots are designed to ensure that most tasks are made easy, comfortable and safe for us. The most important aspect of using robotics lies in fields which present extreme danger to human life or in cases where our organic body can no longer withstand the crushing forces of the elements around. It for this [...]

Opens New Chapter In Study Of Evolution Of Speech
Throughout history, human beings have used the whistle for everything from hailing a cab to carrying a tune. Now, an orangutan’s spontaneous whistling is providing scientists at Great Ape Trust of Iowa new insights into the evolution of speech and learning.

In The Animal World
Shocking new research shows size isn’t always an advantage in the animal world, shattering a widely-held belief that bigger is better.

 Several Eclipses a Year
Moons outside our Solar System with the potential to support life have just become much easier to detect, thanks to research by an astronomer at University College London (UCL).

 
Sitting for long hours with those run-of-the-mill ergonomic keyboards and wrist pads is really hard, we know that. Extraordinary workstations fancy us and we find it our pleasure to bring the best of them to your notice.
 

 
Those iconic double-decker Routemaster busses are disappearing from London streets, now running on only a few “heritage routes” in the city. Industrial Designer Hugh Frost wants to bring back a similar bus with this radical idea he calls Freight*BUS, streamlining the top-heavy conveyances while vaguely suggesting their original shape.