When motorcyclists have an accident they roll a dice, with escaping unscathed on one side and very severe consequences on the other. And for those unlucky enough to sustain severe and permanent injuries like paraplegia, there’s often one huge regret - that they may never ride again on a real bike. A chance encounter with […]

How do you get Minority Report-style invasive biometric security ingrained in society? Tie the technology to something millions can’t do without-like cigarettes-and you’re on your Orwellian way!

Is Classic Art Better In 3D?
Pablo Picasso was commissioned by the Spanish government to commemorate the Nazi Germany bombing of Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War in 1937. The result is Guernica, a black and white painting that depicts the suffering and brutality of war.

Chips made from
Every household is filled with dozens of silicon-based electronics, whose main component is usually a silicon-based transistor. But now, a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute student’s invention could replace this technology with a new generation of transistors that will not only cut energy consumption but also work under extreme conditions.
Weixiao Huang has made a breakthrough […]

Enhanced Reading Experience

Designed to enhance the learning to read experience LeapFrog’s next generation Tag Reading System uses special dot-printed books and a stylus fitted with an Infrared camera and speaker to allow children to hear the words of the story and read along.
The portable gadget is small enough for little hands and able to be […]

Steady There Skipper

Puzzle alarm clock: the simple, profoundly irritating idea at its heart is easy enough to guess, but why, then, is the puzzle itself so simple? It’s a toddler’s learning toy, a matter of bashing three shapes into the corresponding holes. Perhaps the idea is to force you to retrieve them from the other […]

 
 
Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena succeeded in capturing syntrophic (means “feeding together”) microorganisms that are known to dramatically reduce the oceanic emission of methane into the atmosphere.
 

Birdie Bottom Barrier

Polly want a cracker? Unfortunately, it’ll make Polly poop all over your house the minute you let her out of her cage! Hardly seems fair that your concerns for Polly’s well being should be completely at odds with your desire to live a squalor-free life. If you love your little bird and want […]

The New Cool Way To Tell Time…If You Can

 
The latest funky electronic timepiece to surface from watch importer TokyoFlash - the Oberon SS is a real stunner. Not only does the watch feature a new way to tell time, it looks damn good doing it.

 
This weeks special on designer babies includes the no-cry feature,
along with the pick-up-after-yourself gene, and extra tan skin
News that scientists have for the first time genetically altered a human embryo is drawing fire from some watchdog groups that say it’s a step toward creating “designer babies”. But an author of the study says the work […]

 
Space vegies such as this could solve world hunger, or just create more leftovers
Scientists have said that vegetables grown in zero-gravity conditions in space can grow to huge sizes, which could help solve the world’s food crisis.
According to a report in the Telegraph , it is thought that the near zero gravity conditions in space result […]

 
Redefining the flying car
What exactly is a flying car?
My life is a bit unusual in that I often have conversations with people about the topic of flying cars. Since I was a child I dreamed about the day that we would have flying cars. But, other than the vague notion of the flying car that George […]

 
Talent from unlikely places may be the key to new thinking
Professor Stephen Hawking, who has devoted his career to finding the origins of the universe, is to begin a new search - for Africa’s answer to Einstein.
Despite suffering from motor neurone disease which has left him almost completely paralysed, Hawking, 66, has made the journey […]

Drawing on a background that ranges from experience as an aerospace technician to a stint in research and development on the Williams F1 team, Marcus Cunnington has designed and built the 6.3kg (around 13.9 pounds) Free Spirit - a carbon fiber composite design that claims the mantle of the world’s lightest manual rigid wheelchair.

Stick ‘em Where The Sun DOES Shine

Remember when the stamp became self-adhesive? It made stamp glue aftertaste a thing of the past. Well now technology is so advanced that even Solar Panel have been designed to be self-adhesive. That’s right! A peel and stick solar panel is now on the solar panel option list.

David Byrne’s latest art project turns an entire building into a instrument:

With summer upon us, families are traveling all over. Make the journey a bit easier with a TOTEaTOT!
Navigating a small child through airports and train stations is rarely an enjoyable experience. Especially when little ones grow tired, the crankiness can really wear on a mom trying to get the family to its destination in a timely […]

 
 Bike theft is a pretty sizable problem in cities, with only the most industrial-strength locks keeping nimble-fingered thieves from taking off with your two-wheeler.  

 
Surprisingly this isn’t a picture of Cobra headquarters in the new G.I. Joe movie — the Veil Solar Shade might one day grace the schoolyards of some Australian elementary schools. A concept from design firm Büro North, the Veil has a couple of cool things going for it: First, it automatically rotates during the day to ensure the […]

The Amazing Multi-Use Visor

Do we really need any more distractions we need while we drive down the road? This over-the-top replacement sun visor for your vehicle manages to cram in just about everything but the kitchen sink.

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Dr. Robert Zubrin on the Business News Network
In his book “Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil,” world-renowned engineer and best-selling author Dr. Robert Zubrin lays out a bold plan for breaking the economic stranglehold that the OPEC oil cartel has on our country and the world. Zubrin presents persuasive […]

Great way to spot these little privacy invaders
Instructables has just posted its latest installment in its collection of HOWTOs inspired by my new novel Little Brother, a young adult book about hacker kids who use technology to win back their civil liberties from the Department of Homeland Security.
This week, it’s instructions for building a simple […]

Qubies

There are so many amazing milestones that occur during baby’s first year, one of which is their graduation to eating solid food. However, fascination soon turns to contempt when you spend hours cooking and pureeing wonderful but weird-colored meals and you can’t manage to pour them into the individual sections of the ice-cube tray! Or […]

Are LED Lights The Wave Of The Future?

Faiz Rahman, a nanoelectronics researcher at the University of Glasgow, predicts that LED light bulbs for the home will start appearing on store shelves in the next 2-3 years to compete with incandescent and fluorescent bulbs.
If so, the LED bulbs would provide a much greater efficiency (up to […]

Look! It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane, It’s…It’s…What Is It Again?

We like devices where it’s hard to figure out what they actually do, and the Octocube from French designer Vivien Muller is a fine example. Built entirely from 90 degree copper tubing elbows, the Octocube is actually a radiator for a hot water heating system.