Yoel Fink and his team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology are studying how fabrics woven from light-sensitive fibres […]
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Not only are we eating genetically modified product, but we are probably wearing some GM cotton or may […]
Researchers at University of Warwick, England, have created an electronic tongue able to identify the four basic tastes: […]
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A life-saving shirt that can call for help when its wearer falls has reportedly been developed professor Francis […]
Researchers are studying how order theory – a branch of abstract mathematics that deals with hierarchical relationships – […]
Integral Technologies Inc. has developed a highly conductive plastic, dubbed Electriplast. The material would be used as the […]
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An artificial throat that swallows, breathes, salivates and knocks back fizzy drinks has been developed to predict how […]
The Consumers Union testing center creates or buys wacky peculiar gadgets to test everything from exercise equipment and […]
A device, which projects a green video image of a patient’s veins onto their skin, is about to […]
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 […]
The Visible Light Communications Consortium is proposing using light emitting diodes to transmit data traffic at high speeds […]
Hokkaido University in Japan has developed a small rocket that could be yours (unfortunately not mine) for US$19,000 […]
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 […]
Researchers from Pontedera, Italy and Seoul, Korea, are developing a prototype capsule designed to crawl though a patient’s […]
A 3 millimetre-long swimming robot constructed by Chinese scientists could eventually be used for drug delivery or to […]
A fuel cell that runs on sugar rather than methanol is being developed by Matsushita. The prototype is […]
This year’s Ig Nobel Prizes were assigned yesterday evening: – Steven Stack and James Gundlach (USA) got the […]
On the Core77 design board , there is “a walk-thru of a conceptual design project.” Scott Wilson and […]
A new electronic driver’s assistant system (DAS) developed at the National Information and Communications Technology Australia lab in […]
Researchers believe nanotechnology could someday help build tiny supercomputers or solve many of the world’s energy problems. More […]
In June, Logitech’s KeyCase won a 2004 Industrial Design Excellence Award. The keyboard wraps around the Palm when […]
University of Pittsburgh researchers have synthesized a molecule that forms the first “nanocarpet,” whereby the nanotubes organize themselves […]
Melbourne-based Iatia has been given $2.7 million by the Australian Defence Department to fund development of a military […]
The UK government has handed £1m in grants and awards to Nanosight, a nanotech company that has developed […]
Takao Someya and his team from the University of Tokyo have devised pressure-sensor arrays (with a density of […]
Brian Lonsway ‘s research focuses on the relationships between architecture and informatics, and in particular, the development of […]
University of Queensland physicists have invented a permanent coating technology that will prevent your spectacles, car windscreen or […]
After the nose-steered mouse… A team at Shizuoka University has created a prototype that enables users to operate […]
Yang Wang and colleagues at Boston College have invented an antenna that captures visible light in much the […]
Daniela Rus and other Dartmouth Robotics Lab researchers have developed control methods that guarantee self-reconfigurable robots won’t fall […]
Virtual tourists are helping the Swiss to plan their landscape. The Swiss government, which subsidises farmers heavily to […]
The Urban Pollution Monitoring Project, a collaboration between several universities in England to develop mobile sensors that are […]
Dmitry Gorodnichy from the Institute of Information Technology in Ottawa, has developed Nouse, a computer navigation system that […]
Astronomers at Liverpool John Moores University are setting up ‘RoboNet-1.0’ , a global network of the world’s biggest […]
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on a silicon chip which would move automatic speech recognition from […]
Engineering students at Michigan State University have modified a washing machine to make it more accessible to people […]
Scientists at the Department of Industrial Microbiology at University College Dublin have discovered a bacterial strain that can […]
Danish doctors are developing a smart bandage to monitor wounds as they heal, reports the BBC. “Created for […]