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Soft robotic fingers, robots that can open doors, and a robotic sea turtle--iRobot's R&D guys stopped by to show us their latest projects yesterday, and we're passing the awesomeness on to you.
The quantum internet is coming, and this is how we're going to get there.
IBM is developing a cognitive computing program under a DARPA program and just hit a major high.
Scientists in the UK injected dogs with cells grown from the lining of their noses, which continually regenerates.
Increasing the ways users can prod touch screens could open up new features on mobile devices.
Current hard-drive designs are reaching their limit in data storage, but a new manufacturing technique could allow drive capacities to keep expanding.
A nanogenerator made from inexpensive materials harvests mechanical energy and produces enough power to charge personal electronics.
The quantum internet is coming, and this is how we're going to get there.
Amazing 3-D printed creations are starting to surface at an incredible rate, demonstrating the innovation potential that the technique holds for almost every industry.
A reusable rocket prototype built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX has made its highest flight yet, a two-story test hop, as part of an ambitious project to develop completely reusable rockets and spaceships.
The Korean Atomic Energy Group and LIG Nex1 (an aerospace and defense subsidiary of LG Corp) have jointly developed what they are calling the world's first bird strike defense robot.
Using a 3D printer, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed synthetic "bio-bots" about seven millimeters long that are powered by embedded cardiac cells that give them the ability to "walk" on their own.
A Chinese automaker has built a remote-control car — and not one that uses AA batteries.
How do you make a train more awesome?
Flexible photovoltaics made of carbon promise low cost and durability, if their performance can be improved.
Soft robotic fingers, robots that can open doors, and a robotic sea turtle--iRobot's R&D guys stopped by to show us their latest projects yesterday, and we're passing the awesomeness on to you.
These crystalline compounds soak up CO2 like sponges.
Finally, after decades spent wandering through the world of print, television, and the web, advertising has come home to its spiritual birthplace – the public restroom.
Today, the American pastry manufacturer Hostess stopped operations, citing labor-related issues.
Some inventions are so ubiquitous that it's difficult to imagine they started as an idea scribbled on paper and then a patent application submitted to, say, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
Voice control comes to Google TV. You listening, Apple?
If China’s new leadership wants an innovation-based economy, it will have to begin to make the changes needed for robust science and technology development.
The device was created by Imogen Hedges, a Product and Furniture Design student at London’s Kingston University.
A new artificial lens designed to mimic the optic properties of the human eye could lead to better contact lenses and improved surveillance technology, scientists say.
This material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam--but it's also really strong!
From iron to superconductors, materials' greatest hits.
The US patent system goes back to the nation’s founding
Four African girls have created a generator that produces electricity for six hours using a single liter of urine as fuel.
Even with the somewhat muted (by Apple standards) demand for the iPad mini, Apple still had a fantastic weekend of iPad sales. It seems that even the company’s non-hits are hits. That’s not the case.
An ultrathin electrode spun from a single carbon fiber can record neurons in living animals.
