West Virginia-based MD Biotech is developing an ocular scanning instrument that will allow doctors and emergency workers to […]
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For grandparents, no modern communication gizmo can replicate the physical interaction that comes with an occasional visit of […]
So far, implanted electrodes are unable to sense consistent neuronal signals for more than a few months. Therefore, […]
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On Nov. 21, the first day on which MoMA collects its $20 admissions charge, The Homeless Museum (a […]
Christie’s in London is to organize a massive auction of “entertainment memorabilia” next month. The very Imperial Stormtrooper’s […]
The Fingerprint Maze 2004, by Amy Franceschini, David Lu, and Michael Swaine, is an installation that raises awareness […]
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EPSON handheld computer in 1982, found in a database of Japanese design products from 60’s on. Via core77 […]
The Viktoria Institute in Goteborg (Sweden) will hold on January 13-14 the “Designing robot applications for everyday use” […]
Translator II: Grower, by Chicago-based artist Sabrina Raaf, is a rover robot which navigates hugging a room’s walls […]
A new program for 2005 from TLC (formally known as The Learning Channel) will feature designer Genevieve Gorder […]
A bunch of chemical engineering students built cars that run on unusual stuff such as beef liver and […]
PhD student Peter Abolfathi of the Quadriplegic Hand Research Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital has designed a […]
The design of the seven “Mr Jones Watches” by London-based artist and designer Crispin Jones (in collaboration with […]
IN-duce published a list for mobile phone games using GPS or cell towers signals, there’s also a lists […]
Scientists at the Toin University in Yokohama have created the “photocapacitor”, a device that can convert solar energy […]
Following last year’s success of the Turkey & Gravy Soda, Seattle-based company Jones Soda hopes that their brand […]
If U.S. Air Force experiments are successful, free-floating “near space” surveillance balloons could be deployed by late next […]
The top 20 chosen designs for the Virgin Atlantic inflight sickbag competition are now live in the Design […]
At this year’s Ars Electronica, I tested the amazing Messa di voce by Golan Levin , Zach Lieberman, […]
London hopes to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. If their bid is successful, they plan to […]
Dedicated to my brother: British Anzani Lawnrider, a ride-on mower from the 1960’s. You can admire it in […]
I’m so glad Jonah Brucker-Cohen is out of the hospital –mind you, it’s not just because he’s such […]
Jeremiah is a virtual face that you can install for free in your computer. It watches what’s going […]
The fabulous Danish art group N55 (the guys of Small Truck) designed three years ago the Snail Shell […]
C. Hilders and a gynecologic surgical team of the Leiden University Hospital, The Netherlands developed a new method […]
James Law is the chief “cybertect” of a consultancy based in Hong Kong specializing in the design of […]
Shilpi Vaish and Kumar Roshan, stuadents at the National Institute of Fashion Technology (in Kolkata, India), have designed […]
To maximize US manufacturing competitiveness and halt the erosion of manufacturing jobs to low-wage countries, FANUC Robotics America […]
Strengthening a knee after injury often require hours on the machines of a hospital or gym. But Constantinos […]
Endangered Sounds is a project started last year by Garth Paine –artist and head of Electronic Arts at […]
Spray is the first autonomous underwater vehicle, or AUV, to cross the Gulf Stream underwater, proving the viability […]
London-based company Eleksen has developed a technology that makes it possible to manufacture sensors and switches from textiles, […]
Core77 has a fabulous article on Value Meal: Design and (over)Eating, the American section of the Saint-Etienne International […]
Dick van Hoff ‘s Tyranny of the Plug are kitchen machine that chop, blend, mix, squeeze and churn […]
Recycled Soundscape involves the public orchestration of an urban sound ecology. The system, developed by physicist/artist Yon Visell […]
Toyota Motor is working on an Intelligent Multimode Transit System (IMTS) to allow visitors to move within the […]
“Vienen por ellas” (They come for them) is a Chilean ARG game (game of alternative reality), created for […]
Three years ago, Hungarian architect �ron Losonczi invented LiTraCon, the first light transmitting concrete. A wall made of […]
Cute Circuit, an interaction design consultancy and research lab founded by Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz, specializes in […]
Forensic scientists of the UK Forensic Science Service are developing a method of linking DNA evidence from a […]