Cascatelli – The Ideally Shaped Pasta You Didn’t Even Know Existed
Inspired by the firm belief that spaghetti is far from the ideal shape for pasta, a man set out to create a perfectly shaped pasta. The result of his hard work is now known as cascatelli. The story of how cascatelli came to be began in 2018, when Dan Pashman, the host of the James […]
NASA-Inspired Bicycle Tires Never Go Flat, Could Last a Lifetime
A tire startup has teamed up with NASA to bring the world’s first space-age alloy bicycle tires to the mainstream market. The SMART Tire Company recently announced an innovative airless bicycle tire originally developed and tested by NASA for future Mars Rover missions. Dubbed METL, the revolutionary tire is made from smart memory metal that […]
BioClip – The Alternative Wool Harvesting System That Never Quite Took Off
Did you know there was a way to simply pull off the wool of sheep as you would a sweater, thus making classic shearing obsolete? It’s actually been around for decades, but for some reason, it never caught on. When BioClip was first introduced in the early 1990s, it was supposed to completely replace sheep […]
Funny Air Filter Gives You a Dog Nose Filter in Real Life
Nosy, an wearable air filter you put on your nose, has been getting a lot of attention because it makes wearers look like they activated the dog nose filter in real-life. Designed to protect against airborne particles, Nosy is a slick and compact air filter and purifier that fits on your nose. Its patent-pending dual […]
Self-Cleaning Underwear Can Allegedly Be Worn for Weeks Without Becoming Smelly
A Minnesota company has created what it calls “the world’s cleanest underwear”, an innovative self-cleaning undergarment that can be worn daily for weeks, even months, without becoming smelly. HercLéon, a material innovation group known for creating the world’s first self-cleaning socks, t-shirts and bedsheets, is now taking on the underwear industry with Kribi, a line […]
This Insane Laptop Has Seven Foldable Displays
The Expanscape Aurora 7 prototype is being marketed as the world’s first seven-screen laptop, a 17.3-inch behemoth designed with IT professionals and content creators in mind. Having more than one display is quite common for PC workstations, but multiple screens have obviously been more difficult to implement on laptops. Well, until today, that is, as […]
Company Launches Realistic Airplane Window Lamp for Grounded Travelers
Are you stuck in quarantine? Do you miss staring out the window at the clouds below while flying to your next vacation destination? Apparently, there’s a lamp for that! The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted all facets of daily life, but traveling has been particularly hard hit. For globetrotters used to frequent flying from destination to […]
Japanese Company Creates “Smart Glasses” That Can Allegedly Cure Myopia
Japan’s Kubota Pharmaceutical Holdings claims to have developed smart glasses that, if worn just an hour per day, can allegedly cure myopia. Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a common ophthalmological condition in which you can see objects near to you clearly, but objects farther away are blurry. To compensate for this blur, you have the option […]
This Premium Gin Is Made From Distilled Elephant Dung
It’s hard to believe that elephant dung could be the main ingredient of a premium spirit drink, but it’s true. South African gin Indlovu is made with botanicals harvested from the pachyderm poop. Paula and Les Ansley, both former professors in different fields of biology, decided to moved from the UK to South Africa, after […]
LumiLor – The Electrical Paint That Lights Up at the Flip of a Switch
LumiLor is the world first and only patented electroluminescent paint, which can light up virtually any solid surface when an electrical current passes through it. Luminescent paint has been around for decades, but it has never looked as cool as the ingenious invention that is LumiLor. Fluorescent and phosphorescent paints only maintain their glow for […]
This Ninja-Like Face Mask Promises to Give You a Non-Invasive Face Lift
People nowadays pay lots of money for youth-maintaining facial plastic surgery, but one Japanese company claims that its’ face mask can deliver the same results as a lift, so you don’t have to go under the knife. Japanese company Ya-man claims that its MedLift silicone mask can keep you looking young by sending electrical signals […]
Researchers Develop High-Tech Device That Simulates Holding a Girl’s Hand
If you’ve ever wanted to hold a girl’s hand and take long romantic walks in the moonlight, but could never actually find a girl to do that with, there’s now a high-tech device you can try. Developed by a research team at Gifu University, in Japan, “My Girlfriend in Walk” is an ingenious device that […]
Engineers Develop “White Cooling Paint” That Could Reduce Use of Air Conditioning
The idea that a simple paint could could compete with modern air-conditioning sounds crazy, but researchers at Purdue University say it could become a reality thanks to a cool new “radiative cooling paint” they developed. Engineers at Purdue University recently unveiled a revolutionary white paint that they claim can keep surfaces up to 18 degrees […]
Japanese Company Creates the “Ultimate Ear Hair Tweezers”
Nikken Kamisori, a Japanese company with a long experience of making razors and blades, claims to have created the ultimate ear hair tweezers. Ear hygiene is very important in Japanese culture, which explains the existence of ear cleaning parlors where ear cleaning masters wield specialized tools like the mimikaki to remove just the right amount […]
Engineers Claim to Have Created the World’s First Man-Made Non-Cuttable Material
An international team of researchers claim to have created the first synthetic cut-proof material that actively destroys the tool trying to cut through it. Even the toughest lock can do little more than delay a person properly equipped to cut through them, but engineers at Durham University in England and the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany […]