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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Userradio, by Californai-based August Black, is a set of tools allowing people to make their own collaborative radio […]
Nadi Jahangiri, Ken Hutt and Ivy Chan from m3 architects have designed an inflatable apartment space that attaches […]
Duke University developed Wallter, a book-sized robot climbing robot able to roll to the foot of a metallic […]
Copenhagen-based N55 and artist Pelle Brage thought that most transporting tasks could be solved by smaller, slower and […]
Groovetube is a translucent plastic box that you stick to the screen of your television. Inside it, a […]
Farmers in the eastern Indian state of Chhattisgarh are spraying Pepsi and Coca-Cola to protect their rice plantations […]
Created by Equator in collaboration with the Royal College of Art in London, the Drift Table is a […]
The Virginia State Police has adopted eight robots to remove bombs, thwart hostage-takers and provide critical surveillance data. […]
Ballettikka Internettikka is an ongoing study of the internet guerrilla performance. Slovenian ballet dancer Igor Stromajer and composer […]
The Caesars Entertainment chain of casino resorts has brought the MindPlay technology to its games. Using miniature built-in […]
To discover what is real and what is imagined, scientists from the University of Rochester in New York […]
A team from the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute transformed stem cells taken from discarded IVF embryos […]
What started like the thesis project of Dario Buzzini is being turned into a real commercial product. The […]
Touch-screen kiosks have taken off, but it’s not always easy to find space to install them. A new […]
Another mountable robot from Japan! Waseda University in Tokyo and robotics company tmsuk build it last year to […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to find a way to have soldiers survive major injuries — […]