Editor’s Note: Students from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. The student-led group, known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP),…
French architects Jean Marie Massaud and Daniel Pouzet of Studio Massaud took a cue from volcano for their new soccer stadium in Guadalajara, Mexico, complete with a canopy over the stadium looks like a cartoonish ring of smoke. The stadium’s green goo…
How serious about gaming are you? Are you much, much too serious about it? Well then, the X-Dream Gyroxus gaming chair was designed with you in mind, my unbalanced friend.
Football is a game of inches, where just the nose of the ball crossing the goal line can decide a game. That’s why the NFL is in talks with Cairos Technology to possibly insert microchips into the balls that would tell refs when they crossed the goal l…
Add Flash to the list of things a jailbroken iPhone can do that a handset flying the Apple flag can’t. A “black market” app called Frash will enable the service on your iPhone, paving the way for you to enjoy all the free games, video and more that run…
Plant-dwelling insects are in perpetual danger of being accidentally munched on by plant-eating animals. One such insect, the sap-sucking aphid (a common pest in gardens), has an effective escape plan, though: the bugs detect an approaching herbivore’…
What if Twitter were invented in 60 years ago? Then you probably would have seen something like this vintage-style ad in Life or Esquire, touting the service a “virtual locality” and “notorious mechanism.” The ad is part of a series that includes full-…
Silver nanoparticles, used for their potent antimicrobial properties in hospitals and consumer products, may negatively impact plant growth as they make their way into the environment, according to a new study. Whereas it may not spell the end of all…
The Ostoure is a street bike that takes its inspiration from the designs of Persepolis as well as the designs of aircraft. Its coolest feature? Connectivity to a display inside of the riders helmet.
Sharpie has combined the permanence of a pen with the erasability of a pencil with their new Liquid Pencil. The “ink” inside this pen is a liquid graphite that stays erasable for three days. After that, it turns to ink and stays permanent.
"Slow sperm … now that’s a problem,” said Jonathan Havenhand, his British accent compounding the gravity of the message. “That means fewer fertilized eggs, fewer babies and smaller populations.” We were sharing a hilly ca…
We’ve seen Nao the robot before, both as a homemaker and a darn good dancer. Now, the little ‘bot is learning a new trick: being able to approximate the emotions of a human child to better interact with people.
The way things usually go is that is a parole board has to deliberate over a convicted person’s past crimes and their behavior to determine if they are fit for release from prison. Now, a college professor says that computers could fulfill this role wi…
Dozens of iPhone apps have proven that the era of augmented reality is upon us, but only Brother’s new AiRScouter headset truly takes the new medium into easy-to-use, mainstream territory.
Most electric bikes are really just like regular bikes, but with a motor to give you a little extra push for climbing hills on the long trip home. The BlackTrail BT-01 notches it up several levels, and can out run a lot of motorcycles.
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