An artificial throat that swallows, breathes, salivates and knocks back fizzy drinks has been developed to predict how […]
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Corals are the only animals in the ocean that build permanent solid structures which impede them to run […]
Japanese vending machine provides you with nearly anything you can dream of, from eggs to fishing hooks or […]
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SpaceShipOne and Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic can make us think that, after all, space trips are not out […]
Not only is Maggie in such need of exercize that she weights 9,120 pounds which is a lot […]
I’m developping a worrying obsession with robots. New Scientist has a couple of videos in his article about […]
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Networked Piano by Tom Igoe is a mechanized piano connected to the internet. This work in progress will […]
While the exhibit “Pain Couture ” where French designer Jean-Paul Gaultier fashioned dresses with bread is about to […]
According to a report by Creative Loafing, a federal agency, part of the Department of Transportation, is planning […]
…later, maybe some of the new Japanese consumer electronics that made their debut at CEATEC will land in […]
The Consumers Union testing center creates or buys wacky peculiar gadgets to test everything from exercise equipment and […]
Gaetano Borriello, a University of Washington computer scientist has developed a working prototype of a smart swatch system. […]
As superstores abandon buildings in order to move into bigger stores, what becomes of the “bix boxes ” […]
A device, which projects a green video image of a patient’s veins onto their skin, is about to […]
The Alter Ego exhibition in London juxtaposes a person’s real life image with the virtual character s/he chooses […]
There’s a growing trend of electronic products meant to make the owning of pets easier and funnier: from […]
Two Stanford biologists, Dennis Grahn and H. Craig Heller, have developed a method for cooling that maximizes heat […]
Few days ago, came up the Hello Kitty credit card. Now we’ll go to another extreme with the […]
United Arab Emirates University and IBM Middle East has developed the prototype of a car safety device that […]
MEDIATE is a six-sided module about five metres across, which acts as a multi-sensory interactive environment for autistic […]
A research by market analysts Mintel could help forecast what a day in the basket of tomorrow’s consumer […]
‘Chindogu’ is the japanese word coined for the art of the unuseless idea. Meant to solve the niggling […]
The Visible Light Communications Consortium is proposing using light emitting diodes to transmit data traffic at high speeds […]
The University of Bath and the London College of Fashion are working on a ‘smart’ clothing which adapts […]
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Kevin Ashton, now at RFID start-up ThingMagic talked to USA Today about ideas about RFID that are floating […]
Secom (the Japanese company behind the Smoking robot) is to launch on the market next April a robot […]
There’s much debate about whether graffiti constitutes vandalism or a valid art form. The Inspired exhibition of “skateboard […]
Hokkaido University in Japan has developed a small rocket that could be yours (unfortunately not mine) for US$19,000 […]
A flash mob pillow fight is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 17.40 outside St. Paul’s Cathedral in […]
The future of drivers doesn’t look very rock & roll. Sweden Volvo wants to introduce a new safety […]
The U.S. Air Force is spending millions of dollars investigating ways to develop weapons using the most powerful […]
The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith (just a nickname) has started a few years ago The Brick Testament , […]
Boudreaux, officially called the Extra Vehicular Activity Robotic Assistant, is a kind of robot dog that might accompany […]
Researchers from Pontedera, Italy and Seoul, Korea, are developing a prototype capsule designed to crawl though a patient’s […]
Japanese company Taito is now offering what Russell calls Redjacking: sending marketing messages via Infrared. The company’s Popar […]
The mythic Soviet Lomo camera, born in 1982, gained cult-status for its slightly indinstinct images with distorted colours. […]
During his residency at Kala Art Institute , artist Paul Catanese created three digital Cornell boxes for the […]
Many accidents, especially at night, are caused by drivers having to take their eye off the road to […]
On October 4, 1957, Soviet satellite Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, blast into space and transmitted information […]