Camouflage Company Makes Harry Potter’s Invisibility Cloak a Reality
Created by Canadian camouflage design company Hyperstealth, Quantum Stealth is a is a material that renders its wearer completely invisible by bending light waves around it, which is in effect very similar to the invisibility cloak worn child wizard extraordinaire, Harry Potter. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could put on your very own invisibility cloak and just […]
High-Tech Jacket Gives You a Hug Every Time Someone Likes You on Facebook
Created by MIT student Melissa Chow, the “like-a-hug” jacket makes virtual experiences a bit more realistic, by inflating and giving you a hug whenever someone likes you on Facebook. Soon, real friends will probably be obsolete. Having people like you on Facebook is nice, but don’t you wish you could feel the love whenever they hit […]
Japanese Company Creates Mind-Controlled Cat Tails for Humans
Remember the Necomimi, those wacky brainwave-controlled cat ears we featured around this time last year? Well, the same Japanese company that makes those, Neurowear, has just released a fluffy mind-controlled tail to go with them. I have to admit it’s kind of strange seeing a company that has the knowledge to create mind-controlled gadgets create […]
Japanese Chilly Chair Makes Horror Movies Even Scarier
Are horror films not scary enough for you? Than you might want to try watching them from the Chilly Chair, an offbeat invention that literally raises the hair on your forearms and back to enhance emotion. You could say Shogo Fukushima’s invention is really hair-raising. The doctoral student who attends the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo […]
Geeky Fan Builds Real-Life Wall-E Robot
Mike Senna, a computer programmer from Orange County, California, has spent the last two and a half years building a real-life Wall-E robot, from scratch. It moves around, rolls and talks, but he doesn’t collect trash. In 2009, shortly after the movie Wall-E was launched, we featured some photos of cool Wall-E computer case mod, […]
The Future Is Now – China Opens Robot-Operated Restaurant
Well, it’s not exactly as advanced as you’re used to seeing in sci-fi movies, but China’s colorful robot-themed restaurant can be a sign of things to come. They’re probably going to render us extinct one day, so we might as well enjoy their servitude, while it lasts. A unique restaurant, in Harbin, China’s Heilongjiang Province, has […]
ScreamBody – The Portable Organ That Lets You Scream Without Disturbing Anyone
Invented by MIT’s Kelly Dobson, the ScreamBody is an ingenious device that allows you to let out all your rage and frustration without having to worry about it being socially inappropriate. As a kid, I watched a lot of cartoons where characters would just scream inside a paper bag, because they couldn’t let out their pain […]
Mint Hard – The Ice-Cream Hard-Disk
Mint Pass, a Korean tech company, revealed one of the craziest hard-disk concepts I’ve ever seen. Named Mint-Hard, their new gadget will be shaped like an ice-cream and will be used as an external hard-drive. Users will be able to stock data on the ice-cream part of the device, while the stick is actually a […]
Seabreacher – The Dolphin Submarine
Designed by the people at Innerspace, The Seabreacher is a luxury, two-person submarine that looks and acts like a dolphin. To tell you the truth, when I first saw photos of the Seabreacher, it reminded me of that super submarine Lucas piloted on Seaquest. Tou remember Seaquest, right? I loved that show. The Seabreacher was […]
Making Ice-Cream Flavored Clouds
The Cloud Project has found the perfect way to get people more involved in the burning issues like cloud seeding and nanotechnology. Normally, most people would be less than interested to discuss such problems, but when ice-cream is involved, they become a lot more communicative. Using an old ice-cream truck with an industrial water-spray mounted […]
Dear Diary 1.0 – A Desk-Embedded Computer
This could be a sign of things to come, in a few years, desk-embedded computers may not seem like a novelty. Designed by Marlies Romberg, a young graduate of the Utrecht School of Arts, Dear Diary 1.0 aims to be a fusion between the real world and the digital world. Here’s how Marlies explains her […]
New Xbox 360 Laptop
Wouldn’t it be great if you could take your trusty Xbox 360 with you anywhere and play your favorite games at any time? Well, thanks to Ben Heck, now you can. Called the Xbox 360 Portable, this little gadget was created by Ben from a scratch redesign and has the following features: * Built-in Ethernet […]
Soccer Robots Compete in RoboCup 2009
The smartest autonomous robots in the world prepare for one of the most important robot competitions in the world, the World Cup of RoboCup. Brilliant minds from all round the globe build soccer-playing-robots and compete in the RoboCup, to promote the development of artificial intelligence. This year, the weekend-long contest was held in the Austrian […]
Kobian- The Emotional Robot Nurse
Developed by scientists from Waseda University, Kobian can show emotions, perform tasks and is could be the nurse of tomorrow. Kobian can express seven human emotions using his entire body. To show happiness this amazing humanoid opens his mouth and eyes wide and raises his arms. When it is sad, Kobian closes its eyelids, bends […]
Kick-ass Log Computer Case
I’m a big fan of crazy pc-case mods, and this log computer case has to be one of the most original I’ve ever seen. Though it may not be the most environment-friendly pc case out there, the log case is still bad-ass. A crazy modder hollowed a log, made some slots for the pc components […]