Inventions

iPhone Pants

StartupSmart: Designers who are sick of having to fish around for smartphones to send a text have created a pair of jeans with a see-through pocket. The Delta415 Wearcom Jeans, from San Francisco company Alphyn, allow the wearer to leave their phone in their pants while sending texts, surfing the net or playing Angry Birds. […]

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Park In Your Living Room

Crave Online: A new invention by a Rice University student has invented a way for you to park your ride smack in the middle of your home. As part of the James Dyson Design competition is in full swing, Aaron Cheng created the Pneumatic Shelter – a structure that transforms from living space at night

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Sign Language Gloves That Talk

Fast Company: More than 275 million hearing-impaired people are unable to use speech to communicate. Sign language is one solution, but it’s only as helpful as the number of people who know the language. That problem is what drove three Ukrainian students to develop EnableTalk, a pair of sensory gloves that help bridge that communication

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The Robotic Cow Milker

A BusinessWeek reporter visited the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wisconsin last week and came back with the interesting story of this completely automatic robotic milking machine. One of the most impressive things I’ve seen at the expo has been Lely’s Astronaut A4, the Dutch company’s latest-generation robotic milking machine. I am not being sarcastic

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At Inventables: Wet Surface Ink

Inventables.com is the innovator’s hardware store. Whether you’re an inventor, artist or a tinkerer, you’re sure to find something useful at Inventables.com. This week’s featured product is Wet Surface Ink. The marker pictured is capable of writing on wet surfaces. It contains a liquid ink just like a typical marker, only it has a special

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