It’s time to say goodbye to manually creating bricks of unusual shapes for avant-garde structural designs. Amsterdam-based architect Brian Peters has adapted his knowledge of 3D printing onto the architectural landscape by successfully programming a [...]
A new company lets you do a short internship at other jobs, no matter how old you are. If you’ve always thought you should be a chef but don’t know how to find out, now [...]
What it does blurs the line between the digital and real world A trip on public transport or to the local coffee shop might give the impression that touchscreens are everywhere, but scientists at Autodesk [...]
ResearchGate is not alone in its ambitions to upturn the stuffy and defensive world of scientific publishing With 2m members, science startup ResearchGate isn’t just talking big when it says it wants to start a [...]
The Windstrument offers a different vision of what wind power can be in urban areas. Enough of the fields of turbines! It may be full of potential, but wind power is still a young industry [...]
A Qatari engineer has come up with a device that could prove to be a boon to the arid regions of the world by producing water from humidity in the air. The advantages of “Agri [...]
This new OPV technology is a significant breakthrough A new breakthrough in solar technology means portable electronic devices such as e-book readers could soon be re-charged on the move in low light levels and partial [...]
X1 has the potential to produce high torques to allow for assisted walking over varied terrain, as well as stair climbing Marvel Comic‘s fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman [...]
People can let their fingers – and hands – do the talking with a new touch-activated system that projects onto walls and other surfaces and allows users to interact with their environment and each other. [...]
LUIS VON AHN, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, sold one Internet start-up to Google in 2009, and is now on to another. With the new company, Duolingo, he hopes to tap the millions [...]
Move over, Daily Deals and Flash Sales, “Crowdsourcing” is now the biggest fad in ecommerce. Sites in which members invent, design, curate and market products for the marketplace are gaining in popularity. Three such sites [...]
Neither Richard Van As or Ivan Owen have any experience with prosthetics. In fact, the two men have never even met. But they’ve designed a simple new mechanical hand that could be cheap enough to [...]