With eight billion people on the increasingly laden earth, many futuristic stories have placed their less than wealthy citizens in meager living spaces, but the McCormack-designed Multimedia Ovei Pod brings in a ton of gadgetry and perks to cozy the harbors. …
We've all been there -- stuck in a boring airport, trying to entertain ourselves with laptops, phones and tablets, but fearful of the their ever dwindling battery lives. And what about the modern business-person, their head in their hands, a dead battery standing…
Solar Roadways is currently on Indiegogo touting a modest goal of powering entire countries, and reducing greenhouse gases by 75%, with their impact resistant solar panel road hexagons. Pave every road on earth with these solar panels already! Skepticism over…
Today’s breakthrough technology: recycle heat from your body, cars, boats, factories, and convert it to electrical power with glass fabric-based thermoelectric (TE) generators. We are not even talking about tomorrow or in ten years. Byung Jin Chothat's team…
We all know how difficult it is to see inside our own vital organs, but thanks to science that could be about to change. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed and tested a tiny device that is able to swim about inside you and provide…
Developers have been taking a stab at hover-technology for countless years now, with results just shy of success. The let down is far more dramatic than the actual unobtainable design, mainly because hoverboards have been so deeply implanted into our brains that it…
California has birthed Silicon Valley, Skynet, and now the world’s single biggest solar operation at the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, which immediately accounts for nearly 30 percent of all clean, solar energy in the US. Can they do that?…
Scuba diving alone is a tricky sport; but if you didn't need strap on 20 to 30 pounds of equipment, the task might be a little more bearable. South Korean designer Jeabyun Yeon is not buying into the idea of hulling around heavy equipment for his underwater excursions.…
Move aside Nike, the Free Runs have nothing on Shamees Aden's new concept trainers, which encompass biological material and self-regenerative abilities. Now, the idea might sound like something ripped out right out of Arthur C. Clarke's personal collection of sci-fi…
Some alarm clocks gently rouse you out of a slumber with an ever increasing soft glow of light designed to wake you up naturally and with a smile on your face, which is great if you’re soft like a little coddled fluffy bunny rabbit. But, for the rest of us who…
Back in the day, mood rings used to be all the craze. The color of the ring would vary depending on how a person was feeling... allegedly. In reality, the mood ring actually measured a person's body temperature thanks to a liquid crystal thermometer i.e. the stone that…
Star Trek’s creator Gene Roddenberry would be proud, because the crowd-funded Scanadu Scout has surpassed its goal, by almost $400,000 on Indiegogo, and will become the first non-fiction medical tricorder to ever hit the market. I say “non-fiction” because…