Has your beloved Fido-san eaten to many bento boxes that it can’t fit in your tiny Tokyo apartment? For those who want to prevent their furry friends from getting too fat, Fujitsu Industries introduces Wandant, a motion-tracking pedometer (the first of it’s kind)…
You can’t call your mom with Samsung’s new Galaxy Camera, but it will let you upload images to Facebook and let you play solitaire while your waiting. Yes, the Galaxy is Samsung’s new digital camera with an Android smartphone... ahem “media device,” built…
When will the 3D printer become as ubiquitous as say the common inkjet printer? When will we be able to simply print out a new pair of shoes or a new part for our car from the comfort of our home? According to Vincent Laithier, of the Candian based company Axis…
Only a team of French art and industrial design students could come up with a machine that pops popcorn one kernel at a time. In an existential experiment of time, patience, and gastronomy, the "Uncle Sam" or “Oncle Sam” is a machine that not only pops popcorn one…
Most toys don’t do anything. Perhaps a pair of eyes will light up or some fake fire sparks will come out of Godzilla's mouth or maybe a doll will pee so you have to change it’s diaper, but where is the real imagination? What alternative do we have for a generation…
Most of us pre-millennials pine for the days when you can wind real film in camera, watch it develop, and put it in a photo album or project it on a wall. But many post-millienials pine too for the same tangibility – that demographic that considers the early 90s…
I once read a legitimate scientific paper that said in roughly 200 million years giant arboreal squid-like creatures called Squibbons could be the next intelligent species after humans “leave” Earth for more habitable planets. The thing is, lots of scientists,…
Why can’t we turn any surface into a “virtual” keyboard? We have gotten used to the idea of typing solely on physical keyboards, but wouldn’t it be cool to just start typing away on any rigid surface, like your desk or kitchen counter to write an email or a…
You might not know it, but there are some downsides to using your baby as a mop. There’s no simple squeeze mechanism to wring out the dirty water, you can’t leave your baby in a bucket of dirty water, and the main reason... society says it’s unethical to use a…
Meet CIROS, a robot that will gladly make you a salad. It might take twice as long as its human counterpart, but c’mon give the thing a break... it’s a robot... that can make a salad and do other chores too. Introduced only about a week ago at Robot World…
With a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, it’s easy to be reminded how short life really is. It’s easy to realize that the only thing we have in life is the people in our lives and our experiences. All else is ephemeral. What better to capture our memories and…
The ADzero bamboo smartphone will undoubtedly be one of those products eco and tech nerd hybrids will love to hate and hate to love… or just hate. While the phone is not entirely eco-friendly, as it is essentially an Android phone wrapped in a sleek almost all bamboo…