KIDmob’s “Superhero Cyborg” Workshop encouraged kids’ imaginations to run wild as they designed and created colorful, eye-catching prosthetic limbs with capabilities beyond those of typical prosthetic limbs.
Seeing through the Smoke and Mirrors: “Light Barrier” Installation Captivates with Rippling Auroral Display
The “Light Barrier” installation by Kimichi and Chips demonstrated at the New Media Night Festival in Russia creates ethereal 3D objects using millions of crossed light beams.
SPARK Device turns your Jam Session into Clean Energy
Percussionist Sudha Kheterpal has teamed up with eco-designer Diana Simpson Hernandez to create SPARK – a musical instrument that successfully generates electricity just by playing it.
New Smart Cup Vessyl Tracks Your Every Sip
Vessyl is a smart cup that helps you make smarter drink choices by instantly analyzing and tracking the nutritional information of your beverages.
Binaudio: Capturing the City with Sound
A imaginative interpretation of modern technology, the Binaudio captures the Newcastle, England city soundscape.
Metaio Thermal Touch: Augmenting the World into a Touchscreen
Augmented reality powerhouse Metaio has now branched out into the realm of tactile content control – on top of a stunning 3D computerized visual overlay, they’ve added the hardware necessary to make wearable tech truly interactive by turning the whole world into a touchscreen.
Digital Self-reflection: See Yourself through JINS MEME Smart Eyeglasses
Based in Tokyo, eyewear innovator JINS has recently jumped on the wearable tech bandwagon with MEME, their new smart eyeglasses that absorb, synthesize and externalize the user’s inner physiological and psychosomatic data. Instead of bringing the outside in like Google Glass, JINS MEME glasses are electronically subscribed to your subtle inner physical and emotional changes.
MIT Researchers Create New Hybrid E-materials that Live and Grow
MIT scientists have discovered how to tap into the powerful world of bacteria to create bionic biofilms of nanowires, quantum dots and electricity conductors.
The Palm-sized Chemistry Lab that Costs Less than Your Morning Frappucino
Stanford bioengineer Manu Prakash has created a $5 hand-cranked chemistry lab from music box parts that, instead of pricking metal tines to sound different tones, yields precise amounts of designated liquid chemicals. The small device is an inexpensive, easily manufactured, programmable and energy self-sufficient tool applicable to a wide variety of scientific and educational industries.
“Unnumbered Sparks” Allows Viewers to Digitally Paint on a Massive Sky-Canvas
An interactive canvas that allows people to play with technology and light, the Vancouver art installation elegantly contrasts the formative city architecture, brings people together, and lifts their eyes to the sky.
Fun motivational gadgets to increase your willpower, decrease procrastination, and conserve resources
Research group Experience Design at the Folkwang University of Arts has created several innovative and fun transformational gadgets called “Pleasurable Troublemakers” to help individuals cultivate good habits, whether they be about personal issues like impulsiveness or procrastination or globally conscious issues like about the economy or the environment.
Empowering Patients through Scientific DIY Diagnostic Apps and Tools
In the internet world of information and misinformation, it’s easy for worried self-diagnosers to incorrectly turn a benign zit into something as scary as cancer. Luckily several new affordable smartphone-compatible devices are now in development that do everything from a routine physical exam to analyzing glucose and protein levels – allowing patients a non-invasive and quick alternative that would save hundreds of dollars and many idle hours spent in a waiting room.
New Hybrid Air Car will Reduce CO2 Emissions and Save 80% on Gas Bills
The new “Hybrid Air” system by Peugot will reduce CO2 emissions and save consumers money by utilizing a dual gasoline and compressed air engine.
IAAC Students Design Bio-photovoltaic Cells that Extract Excess Energy from Soil
A team of research students at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Spain has recently designed and installed a bio-photovolatic wall at their Valldaura campus to generate some buzz about collecting the natural and continuous untapped energy that constantly flows beneath our feet.
IBM Develops Graphene Chip that will make your Electronics 10,000x Faster
IBM researchers have produced the first viable semiconductor chip – the foundation for all electronic devices – with circuits made from graphene, a material that is 10,000x faster and likely to soon replace traditional silicon-based chips.
Simple Biopsy Device Could Significantly Reduce Diagnosis Time for Cancer Patients
This low-cost, credit card sized device designed by University of Washington undergraduate students uses microfluidic properties to reduce the time it takes to diagnose the often terminal pancreatic cancer.
“Rapport” Device uses your Facial Expressions and Mood to Choose your Music Playlist
What if machines could react based on our mood and emotions? Enter in Rapport, a project that is attempting to bridge the gap between human emotion and the machines we’ve come to enjoy.
Seawater-Fed Desert Plants may soon be the Biofuel for our Airplanes
To reduce the aviation industry’s global carbon footprint, industry heavyweight Boeing is working with partners in the Middle East on a new biofuel made from desert plants that are fed with seawater.
The Forest Symphony: Sounds of Photosynthesis
Ryuichi Sakamoto, Shiro Takatani, and the YCAM Interweb team collaborate in an installation that uses a bioelectric tracking device, interpretive music and visual displays to bring an urban centered world back to the forests that surround and define them.
Advanced Contact Lens Monitors Blood Sugar for Diabetics
With so much new wearable technology out there like smart watches and augmented reality glasses, it’s nice to see something new to the market that’s at least a little less frivolous: a smart contact lens by Google X that allows diabetics to easily monitor their blood sugar.