Aero-X Hoverbike
The Aero-X Hoverbike might be just what you’re looking for if you have ever wanted to experience the feeling of flying, but don’t want to deal with the expense of a plane or helicopter, or spend the time getting licenses and certifications.
Continue reading… “Aero-X Hoverbike set to hit the market in 2017”
Binaudios
As part of the Thinking Digital Conference, artist Dominic Wilcox and creative technologist James Rutherford dreamt up Binaudios, an oversized public listening device which lets visitors experience the sounds of Newcastle, UK in a completely new way. (Video)
Rubber sidewalk
We may not give a second thought to the ground we walk on, but a new rubber tile market has emerged and with it, a new and creative prospect for the future of municipal walkways. There are companies presently at work whose sole focus is trying to provide a viable alternative to the concrete under our feet. Despite concrete’s reign as the preeminent construction material for sidewalks, companies that manufacture rubber tiles— such as Terrecon and Pavegen— are looking for a piece of concrete’s market share.
Continue reading… “Rubber sidewalks could eliminate the hazards of concrete”
Tody is a squishy, four-limbed dust-busting robot cephalopod. If you hate those cobwebs that seemingly pop up overnight in your home’s hardest to reach corners, then you just might leap at the chance to get your hands on a house-dusting robot.
Continue reading… “Tody – a wall-climbing robot that will keep your house squeaky clean”
JINS MEME glasses
The Tokyo-based eyewear designer JINS stylish new glasses seem like an ordinary pair of glasses at first glance. However, the JINS MEME glasses offer more than style and comfort: these frames have been specifically designed to monitor your health. (Video)
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Wavegarden
Wavegarden is bringing the power of the ocean to the mountains of North Wales. They have been given the go-ahead to build the UK’s first inland surf lake. The giant wave lagoon, three times the size of a football pitch, will be the first of its kind in the world. (Video)
Continue reading… “World’s first surfing lake slated to open in 2015”
Personal Space Dress
People everywhere knows how uncomfortable it is to feel that someone is invading your personal space when commuting, and no one knows more about that than then subway riders of Hong Kong. Kathleen McDermott, an MFA Creative Media student at City University of Hong Kong, has created a mechanical dress that will adjust its hem when a nearby person starts creeping in too close. (Video)
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At the PSFK CONFERENCE 2014, professors Alan Worf and Eric Lima of Cooper Union spoke about Invention Factory, a 6-week intensive summer program for their students. They locked their best and brightest in a room with all the tools needed for inventing and making prototypes, and let them create. Fundamentally a program about building, not entrepreneurship, the professors were looking for prototypes, not business plans. After the students had undergone rigorous critiques and revisions, they made videos of the student creations and one got 3.5 million views. (Video)
Continue reading… “Two students redesign the cardboard box”
The Ryno
The Ryno is an all-electric, self-balancing, one-wheeled personal mobility device that uses a combination of gyroscope sensors and accelerometers to balance itself. The microcycle has a single 25-inch motorcycle tire and reaches speeds up to 10 mph.
Color-changing fabric
We haven’t quite figured out how to make a real invisibility cloak yet, we are coming up with better ways to camouflage ourselves. And what better way to do that than taking a cue from nature? Wouldn’t it be cool if we could change the color of our clothes like the chameleon changes the color of its skin? Textile designer Judit Eszter Karpati may have found a way to do that, thanks to the use of an experimental fabric she created that changes color on the fly. (Video)
Continue reading… “Chromosonic color-changing fabric could turn you into a chameleon”
The Lumafit brings interactive fitness to your smartphone. Lumalift can precisely identify and rate cardio workouts by tracking motion at the head. Lumalift has apps for both fitness and relaxation. (Video)
Kickstarter startup SCiO has developed a tiny spectrometer that reveals the molecular make-up of materials, both organic and not that is sure to be a standard in all CSI kits in the future. (Video)
Continue reading… “SCiO: A pocket-sized molecular scanner tells you what things are made of”
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