Huffington Post: It’s raining, you don’t have an umbrella, and there are no awnings in sight. Mikhail Belyaev would like to have you covered with his latest invention, the “Lampbrella.” Part street lamp, part umbrella, the lamppost contraption has a sensor that detects when it’s raining and an electric motor that automatically opens a canopy […]
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Ever spilled your coffee or, heaven-forbid, dropped your cellphone into the toilet? Popular Science has up a profile of a product demoed this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas that will protect your phone from such mishaps. Liquipel covers devices inside and out with a transparent coating thinner than a human hair
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According to Japanese researchers at the Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology in Tokyo, it is possible to identify drivers by the way their weight is distributed on the car seat. The team has developed a car seat that can identify drivers when they sit down. It seems that everyone’s bum is as unique as a
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Daily Mail: Next time you see a dog lapping thirstily at a toilet bowl, pause for thought – next time, it could be you. A new invention – funded by Bill Gates – aims to turn used toilet water into drinking water. Manchester University’s Sarah Haigh is an expert in nanotechnology – the science of
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Etsy: These stunningly realistic looking Mermaid Tails were inspired by my 3 daughters and their love of all things Mermaid! They are created to fit your unique size and include a comfortable, durable and sturdy custom made mono-fin. They are made to SWIM IN as the material used is top of the line swim fabric.
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Deccan Chronicle: Here’s a crazy copter with 18 rotors invented by physicist Thomas Senkel. Now, this thing is not like what physicists unleashed upon us last week but it’s equally fantastic — even if it looks like your blender. Much innovation has gone into the Volocopter and the world, which has always been interested in
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New Haven Register: A Sacramento inventor is marketing a product that he says is the first tool ever for effectively stopping a case of the hiccups. Chuck Ray dubbed his invention “The Hiccup Stick,†which he developed two years ago. Sitting in his home office, Ray had a pen in his mouth and a case
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‎Co.Design: It’s the great equalizer. Even the world’s richest monarchs–with their gold-gilded sinks and ivory toothbrushes tipped with the coarse tail fur of DNA-recombinated duck-billed platypuses–face the same problem every day. We all brush our teeth, and with a frothy mouth full of mint or bubblegum, debate whether to leave a fluoride-laden rabies bite on
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If you want to know what’s wrong with the world today, look no further than this: ability to have tacos delivered by robotic helicopter is being blocked by the federal government. The Internet is going wild for Tacocopter, perhaps the next great startup out of Silicon Valley, which boasts a business plan that combines four
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Vindy.com: Brain Swaggle is an interactive game that combines Scrabble and chess, making for an online game that’s strategic and stimulating, said Downing, the game’s creator, who is from Cortland. “I thought that it would be cool if somehow a game could be created combining the strategy of chess with the vocabulary skills needed for
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