FALX Air Hybrid Tilt-Rotor Chopper
An ambitious aircraft concept combines the speed of a plane, the agility of a helicopter and the efficiency of a hybrid car. (Pics)

 
She’s invented a way to build exactly the right molecule for the job
Why are there so many diseases and so few cures? It’s not just that medicine moves slowly; chemistry holds us back, too. To build drugs, chemists start with a base molecule, then add and subtract atoms [...]

Say goodbye to grimy keyboards. Here are four innovations that merge man and machine
Look Ma, No Hands!: Eye movement, Wii remotes, vocal cords and mere thought may one day soon control everything from computers to cameras to wheelchairs. 

The incredible Jay Walker Library
Jay Walker was the founder of Priceline.com and will be the featured speaker at the 2008 Colorado Inventor Showcase on November 10th in Denver, Colorado. Here are some photos of his amazing library. (Pics)

 
 Deep Flight Challenger
Unbeknownst to most of the world, the late super rich adventurer Steve Fossett had started work on an amazing flying submersible that would one day theoretically touch the stars. More importantly, however, was that the design would have allowed adventurers and scientists alike (and most importantly Fossett himself, of course) to venture into [...]

 
Add a projector to make your iPhone complete
During his studies at H.I.T., Moti Barzilay had to design something iconic in the realm of Apple products – something he felt was missing from their lineup. He came up with the iShow. It’s a portable projector designed for Apple’s line of iPods, iPhones, and MacBooks. The clam [...]

 
Inspired by highway billboards
Designed by the polish firm front architects, the Single Hauz is a prototype house created for the single person.  The design is inspired by freestanding billboards often seen near highways. this slim raised design makes them suitable for many locations where building may be difficult, including on the water. By using steel, [...]

Colorado Inventor Showcase – 2008
Produced by the DaVinci Institute along with
some of the finest inventors in the world
This year’s event will mark the 4th annual Colorado Inventor Showcase. Each year the Showcase attracts some of the nation’s finest inventors and their incredibly clever inventions. Inventions are judged by a cast of over 50 [...]

Could this new electronic wine-tasting tongue challenge the finest wine tasters in the world? Invented by European scientists, this handheld device has a multi-sensor chip which senses distinctive characteristics of wine varieties. By analyzing the sugar content, acidity and alcohol, the machine can also determine the year and grape variety of the sample and instead of [...]

 
The Legendary Ben Bova
Ben Bova’s series of novels about the planets, including his newly released “Mars Life,” has been dubbed “The Grand Tour.” The six-time Hugo-winning author will be making a grand tour of sorts when he comes to Denver this week for the World Science Fiction Convention, where he will receive the Robert A. [...]

 
Daniel Nocera has developed a simple method to split water molecules and produce oxygen gas
In a revolutionary leap that could transform solar power from a marginal, boutique alternative into a mainstream energy source, MIT researchers have overcome a major barrier to large-scale solar power: storing energy for use when the sun doesn’t shine. (Video)

Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey, top, and Biz Stone pose on the roof of their San Francisco offices.
USA Today has a great article on the Twitter phenomenon. Micro-blogging at its finest, it is indeed much more than that.
Twitter has become so popular, so fast, that keeping up with its fast-growing user base is a [...]

 
Anything worth having, is worth implanting
New approaches could more seamlessly integrate medical devices into the body.
Conductive polymer coatings that weave their way into implanted tissue might one day improve the performance of medical implants, such as cochlear implants and brain stimulators used to treat Parkinson’s disease. In early studies, neural interfaces coated with an electrically [...]

Proposed maglev train
Could a 300mph train from Disneyland to Las Vegas be on the way? A transportation bill just signed into law chips in $45 million to study the idea, which has a maglev (magnetic levitation) train similar to the Shanghai SMT in the picture above making the 260-mile run from fantasyland to sleazetown [...]

Up, up and away!

Picture it – thousands of Mickey Mouse heads floating over Orlando, Florida. That is the plan for later this month when Walt Disney Co. uses a new invention to promote Disney World. Now picture the Nike logo or the Apple Logo or even your logo taking to the air. How? Flogos!
What is [...]

  
How would you build a conscious machine? Well to begin with I’d get Life Insurance and then take my brain and put it in a jar and freeze my body. Then hundreds of years later wake me up and transplant me into an IronMan. Yes, I partially got that idea from the movie IronMan and [...]

 
Screw voluteering to lie down for 90 days for NASA: the National Space Society is offering a job as a Space Ambassador, with taking a ride into space as part of the duties.

 
 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 [...]

Some inventions will automatically land you a spot in the Inventor Hall of Fame.  This is one of them
Beer lovers will have to admit that this DIY all-in-one beer brewing device created by John Carnett is the best invention since canned beer. And the good news is that alcoholics all around the world will soon [...]

The news report is in Russian language
This is a Russian TV news report on the russian made “Power Boots”, also known as “Seven League Boots”, or “Quickwalker Boots”, or the “Saigak Power Boots”, which is the russian word for a kind of elk.
The boots were created by a russian scientist Viktor Gordeyev. Each boot includes [...]

The 2008 European Inventors of the Year were awarded recently in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Even if you don’t recognize the names of the inventors, you will certainly know their inventions and the contributions those inventions have made to the world during the last 10 to 15 years.

 
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans
The tool – for now called Google Ocean, the sources say, though that name could change – is expected to be similar to other 3D online mapping applications. People will be able to see the underwater topography, called bathymetry; search for particular spots or attractions; and navigate through the [...]

Photobucket Founders Alex Welch and Darren Crystal
On May 21st the DaVinci Institute will host the now infamous dual of Alex Welch and Darren Crystal, the two founders of Photobucket, who will tell the story of what it took for them to launch what is now the World’s number one photo site on the Internet. [...]

Part of saving our environment relies heavily on figuring out new ways to process our natural resources in a self-sustaining, cost effective way. Dean Kamen, the man who brought us the Segway, has just such a solution in the form of a water purification device called the Slingshot.

Brainwave-Reading Headphones
A lightweight battery-free headset can continuously monitor human brainwaves, and is powered by body heat and sunlight.