NY Times: If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,†don’t worry. It’s probably just a Google employee testing the company’s new augmented-reality glasses. On Wednesday, Google gave people a clearer picture of its secret […]
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kvia.com: Carlos Kato, inventor of the Personal Misting Umbrella, came up with the idea on his way home to his East El Paso home two summers ago. “I saw a woman sitting at a bus stop and she had a bag of groceries, one of those spray water bottles, and an umbrella. And she was
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Coventry Telegraph: Mick came up with the idea after visiting his son’s student digs at Oxford University. He said: “My son’s shower was really small and all these bottles of shampoo and conditioner were at the bottom. I thought ‘What can I do to change this?’†Mick spent three years on the invention and carried
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The Guardian: Draw Something is the latest classic board game to be reinvented for the digital age. Words With Friends is the new Scrabble, Monopoly is a hit online. But none has rivalled the phenomenal growth of Draw. The game has been a winner from day one – it was averaging three drawings a second
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MLive: With his car keys on the ground, Donald Beyette was in a bit of a jam. He could struggle and try to pick up the keys, or try to convince a stranger to get close enough to pick the keys up for him. “Waiting for someone else to do something for you sucks,” Beyette
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KOLO: Arik Bannister’s moment of inspiration was forced on him, a few moments after he set out to become a Zumba instructor. Zumba is a popular workout routine based on Latin music with the sort of hip swinging, foot-twisting moves you might expect. “After 15 minutes I started to feel sore and I thought, you
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Do you know the exact angle of your golf head path? That is the line used by VozTee to get customers to give them a second look. After all, their unique device will answer that question for you, reports MarketWatch. The VozTee is a high-tech, interactive golf training and practice device that is also fun
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This is Gloucestershire: The game, called Word for Word, challenges people to form words out of 99 wooden tiles in a race against the clock. It was first snapped up by Gibsons Games, the UK’s oldest independent games company, and was shown for the first time at the London Toy Fair last month. Managing director
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Popular Science: Have you ever been tempted to order steak tartare but decided against it for fear of getting sick? This little cell phone scanner can take a look at it for you and let you know if it does in fact harbor any E. coli bacteria. It attaches to a typical cell phone camera
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The man behind the double flipper on pinball machines, Steve Kordek, has recently passed on at the ripe age of 100. In 1947, two designers at the D. Gottlieb & Company pinball factory in Chicago, Harry Mabs and Wayne Neyens, transformed that rudimentary game into one called Humpty Dumpty, adding six electromechanical flippers, three on
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