www.youtube.com/watch Drones continue to grow in popularity. New materials and smaller technologies are making it easier than ever to build your own drone and take aerial videos or photographs with the latest cameras. In fact, the public can now...
The Bistro smart cat feeder (via Bistro) The Bistro is the latest high-tech gadget for pet lovers who want to keep a close eye on their cat’s eating habits. The Bistro is advertised as a premiere way to catalogue the food intake and weight of th...
As I huddle by a plain white electric heater, I write about this - The Hot Art space heater disguised as a piece of art atop the mantelpiece (via brzbrands and kickstarter)Hot Art is a 24” by 40” space heater that is disguised as a painting that can ...
(All pictures via UralVagonZavod)Russia may have lost the Cold War but the country won’t be denied a spot as one of the most innovative world powers. The superpower recently unveiled its newest tram design – and it looks like it came right out of the...
Latest Google self driving car. (via Google)Google never ceases to amaze (or scare) us with their bright ideas. The innovation headquarters is at it again, this time bringing us a self-driving car that doesn’t have a steering wheel, brake pedals or a...
PocketQube Kit for amateur satellite makers (via PocketQube Kit) Building a satellite is a hard job if you aren't a NASA space engineer, and buying all the components to build one is extremely costly. For instance, a 'less' expensive...
Smart skin made of stretchable silicone that can 'feel' touch, temperature and more (via Kim et al/Nature Communications) Researchers from Seoul National University, Korea have developed a silicone smart skin that can stretch over prosthetic lim...
Updated mind-controlled robot arm from DARPA (via Journal of Neural Engineering/IOP Publishing)Expand NY is a team of scientists and engineers that have been funded by DARPA to work on a mind-controlled robotic arm, among other things. While they rel...
Bitsbox kit co-created by Scott Lininger to teach kids aged 7-11 to code. (via Bitbox)Learning to code, teaching kids to code, teaching Obama to code, are all in the news recently as the campaign to keep code alive is continuing – spearheaded by MNC ...
The first Christmas tree with lights, by Edward H. Johnson from 25 Dec. 1882 (via US National Park Service) Tis' the season when you can see lit Christmas trees in windows, rows of houses with glowing Santa with his reindeer on the front lawn. L...
Unnecessarily eerie digital double of a model’s face and eyes (via Disney) Do you wish your Disney animated characters were more creepily realistic? The computer graphics scientists at Disney Research Zurich have found a way to more accurately d...
Technological advances have not only made our lives easier, but also made entertainment, like gaming, more immersive. As we wait on the edge of our seat to see if hover boards and ray guns will become a reality, more practical, if less glitzy, breakt...
Photographer Ignas Kutavicius and his mega hipster pinhole selfie contraption (via Ignas Kutavicius)A project by photographer Ignas Kutavicius takes the selfie mania to a new level. Actually, it takes selfies not just to a new level, but creates a ne...
A Punching bag keyboard for you work and exercise needs (via Bless)Let's face it. Sitting in front of a computer all day is horrible and it's made continually worse by having to come up with brilliant ideas which are expected to float effortl...
A demo of the new Prynt case for instant smartphone picture printing (via Prynt SAS)Coming to the market is a smartphone case that instantly prints photos, directly from your phone. It's a modern-day Polaroid camera, but better and hopefully chea...
Printed LEDs from bionic nanomaterials by McAlpine Research Group (via McAlpine Research Group) The McAlpine Research Group from Princeton University are the first to successfully 3D print fully functional quantum dot LEDs. Not only did the gro...
Folding electric bike – or art project? (via Impossible Technology) If you live in the city, you probably already know that commuting sucks and companies have been working towards finding better, electric ways at getting us to our destination. ...
Airgonay club’s drone racetrack in the French Alps is a tough go for any pilot Drones are being deployed for more than just spying and taking out terrorists. Civilian enthusiasts, law enforcement and even scientific researchers are getting in on...
Tesla Motors has opened the floodgates on their patents for free use as open-source material. (via Tesla) Back in June of this year, the enigmatic CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, released the company’s patents on electric vehicle technology for...
AM Turing Award, sponsored by Google (via AMTURING)Google and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) announced the prize for the annual AM Turing Award will be reaching Nobel Prize levels with a one million dollar cash prize for the 2014 winne...
Baby turtles swimming to freedom, just an example... not their efforts. (via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)The North Carolina tourist scene has had a problem for years now. Their beaches must be closed for at least six weeks due to little, baby Wolf...
The first hoverboard created by Hendo and up on Kickstarter (via Hendo Hover)Hold the phone and take me Back to the Future! Someone has created a real hoverboard! Recently, there was a big hub bub about a Back to the Future electric skateboard commem...
Students, start-ups, and MNCs coming together to crowdsource solutions (via Agorize)Data is the big deal in business and large corporations like Google will do anything, and pay anything to get their hands on it. Currently, many companies will pay an...
A poor human being subjected to a ghostly robot presence... virtually. (Alain Herzog/EPFL)For the first time, scientists have successfully been able to reproduce a ghostly presence in the lab with a robot. There is a long stem of research into the ph...
One of my friends has bought a soft drink bottle cooler as a present for his partner.The outside of the machine is agreeable, but the state of the electr(on)ics is bad. More than 20 wires have been cut off by previous owners and restorers. The only p...
