Gravity Light: Did you know that there are currently over 1.5 billion people in the World who have no reliable access to mains electricity?→

The film above is from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and is adapted from the 1958 essay by Leonard E. Read “I, Pencil: My Family→

Think swimming with the dolphins is exciting? How about swimming like a dolphin?! Invented by French jet ski champion Franky Zapata, the Flyboard allows→

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Neatorama: According to Marc Abrahams, the founder of the Ig Nobel Prize and the Annals of Improbable Research, some Korean businessmen own special suits→

A teenager into ice skating isn’t very unusual, and it doesn’t necessarily mark that teen out for future financial success. In Chester Greenwood’s case,→

Slate: Do you have trouble pacing yourself while running? You could download a speedometer app for your iPhone. Or if gee-whiz is more your→

Earthtechling: The technology was commercialized in 1994 by Dyesol, an Australian solar company that sells various DSC products and supplies internationally. Each DSC, covered→

Popular Science: During a regular fishing season, most lobstermen can afford to check and rebait their traps only every three or four days. Each→

Cassandra Daily: Fickle minds sometimes face commitment issues when choosing their homes’ color schemes. To help prevent palette regret, German artist Siren Elise Wilhelmsen→

If you’ve ever tried to take a vacation with children that required the use of both an airplane and a rental car, you know→

How do you build a desk suspended by balloons? A company called Twisted Image finally started production in February. Their job was to fabricate→

SGGP: The machine can pick up 120 tons of unhusked rice in eight hours, consuming only four liters of petrol. Nguyen Van Hong has→

Gordon Boswell has a gift for turning out brilliant ideas. These ideas have kept him working at Masport for 56 years, and he’s still→

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Entreprenuer: Robert Thomas dropped out of Stanford and was waiting to be discharged from the Marine Corps when he had the idea to hitchhike→

BusinessWeek: The result is the SleepTracker, a watch-like monitor and alarm that users wear on their wrists to record their sleep patterns and awaken→

East Atlanta Patch: For the past several weeks, Michael Micucci and his business partners have been going to Zoo Atlanta, studying and gauging public→

Rocket Mail, 1931 Before “rocketmail” was the name of a short-lived free e-mail service in the late ’90s, it was an idea propounded by→

The Telegraph: The H20 water-powered radio clips onto the water pipe that runs up to a shower head. Using micro turbine technology, the radio→