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By now, most readers are probably pretty familiar with quadracopters - small hovering unmanned electric aircraft, which get their lift from a set of four propellers. Well, make the whole thing larger, boost the number of propellers and....
Industrial Design student Dean Benstead thinks that compressed air does have a role to play in the future transport mix, and he's designed a working air-powered motorcycle prototype with a view to exploring the viability of the platform.
For those who don’t know, NI builds the software and systems by which an engineer can test and prototype pretty much anything, from an irrigation system to a rocket.
Get people thinking! Use the new Cop Block door hanger to let the government bullies know that their services are NOT needed in your residence! Now the police can’t say that you consented to any searches, the presence of the door hanger makes it cle
Whether or not NoteSlate ever produces a real product, no barriers remain to a competitor building a tablet purpose-built for sketching and note-taking.
Two robots have gathered a treasure-trove of data from beneath the ice shelf.
Michigan researchers have built a prototype of a new auto motor that does away with pistons, crankshafts and valves, replacing the old internal combustion engine with a disc-shaped shock wave generator
We pay close attention to the modifications scientists are making to goats, moths and worms so they can harvest their silk. Now researchers in Singapore are reporting a new advancement: dyed-in-the-worm silks, which look pretty and could have interes
I just came across this application. It is currently available on iPhone but is coming soon to Android and Blackberry. Currently, it works with Spanish to English and English to Spanish. You have to see the video!
Driving a car with disappearing doors will definitely grab everyone's attention.
A demo film of the Armstead Snow Motors Company concept snow vehicle - powered by a Fordson tractor and a Chevrolet automobile. (Publisher: Very Cool!)
Domino's Pizza has racked up another innovation in the fine art of delivering pizza fresh, hot and fast. Now the corporate marketing tactic of fast delivery is easier to achieve than ever thanks to a new iPhone app the ubiquitous pizzeria company ha
Edison's strange "psycho-phone" is a curious device with an even curiouser history. Said to be the culmination of the inventor's research into the other world--or life after death--the device allegedly gave the user access to the dead. Supposedl
Had you happened to be in the eastern Netherlands on Sunday, you could have had the opportunity to hear a new composition: “Impromptu No. 1 for Micronium.” However, you probably wouldn’t have seen much.
After years of research, we may be close to full-scale production of super-strong spider silk
Intel's MeeGo will let apps span tablets, phones, and TVs
Israeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger.
It seems like we get everything from automated vending kiosks these days, from cash to DVDs to postal service to gasoline. The French have simply taken the next logical step. Putting a modern (and greener) spin on an old way of doing business, a Fren
Should we happen to find $90,000 under the cushions of the Asylum sofa today, we know exactly how we're spending it: on a boat that resembles a great white shark and can jump 12 feet into the air.
Superconductors are more than 150 times more efficient at carrying electricity than copper wires. However, to attain the superconducting state, these materials have to be cooled below an extremely low, so-called transition temperature.
A technology coming to Chrysler vehicles can improve the fuel economy of standard gasoline engines by 25 percent
The eyes may be the window to the soul. But what do you see when you look into robotic eyes so real that it’s almost impossible to tell they are just empty, mechanical vessels?
Betting its future on digital photography, Kodak discontinued the slide and motion-picture film with a production run last August in which a master sheet nearly a mile long was cut up into more than 20,000 rolls.
"We're studying how the biology of the brain is changed by the environment, and how these changes underlie memories and experiences," said Ressler, an associate professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Emory University Sch
The unanswered questions behind a spider’s cunning ability to spin silk, which is tougher than any man-made material, have hampered its use in everything from medical tools to next-generation electronics. Now scientists think they have the tools to u
AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless, the biggest U.S. mobile carriers, are planning a venture to displace credit and debit cards with smartphones, posing a new threat to Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., three people with direct knowledge of the plan said.
Meet 10 of the most advanced human-assist 'bots from around the world
Each month we look beyond the shelves of your local big-box store to dig up a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. This is the stuff that is better, faster, stronger, and does more than pretty much anything we've seen before it. Click the gallery thu
New services try to make location information useful but not invasive.
A new antibacterial paper could lead to food wrappers that keep food fresh longer, shoes that never stink, and bandages with a built-in ability to deter infection. It turns out a paper-like material made of graphene – thin sheets of carbon just a sin
