It may not be very long before you can go into a restaurant and order “one hamburger, hold the cow.” Dutch startup Mosa Meat has secured €7.5 million (US$8.8 million) in funding to take lab-grown meat from an expensive laboratory experiment to an affordable commercial commodity. By using more advanced techniques to grow meat from cultured animal cells, the goal […]
Lab Grown Burgers?
Wearable Monopod
There’s no denying that tripods are an effective means of steadying your shot when taking photos, but the things can be a hassle to carry around, and to set up. German father-and-son team Gert and Tobias Wagner have created a lightweight wearable alternative, in the form of Steadify. The 0.5-kg (1.1-lb) device is strapped around the user’s waist using an […]
Tokyo’s Art Museum Turns You Into A Piece Of Art
An innovative and quite incredible new attraction has opened its doors in Tokyo, with the Mori Building in the Japanese capital hosting what is described as an unprecedented Digital Art Museum. Inside, visitors can wander freely through awe-inspiring lightworks that invite them to become one with the art. The Mori Building Digital Art Museum is home to around 50 interactive […]
Specialised Hidden Tool For Bike In Steering Tube
Given that cycling multitools are only ever used when the rider is with their bike, several companies have developed tools that are permanently stored onboard the bicycle. The new SWAT Conceal Carry Tool, from Specialized, goes inside a mountain bike’s suspension fork steerer tube. When riders just need to tighten something, the SWAT CC’s top cap can be swivelled to […]
Hinge Using A New Algorithm To Find Your Perfect Partner
MODERN DATING, OLD ALGORITHM. : Not having any luck with online dating? Maybe a decades-old algorithm can help. On Wednesday, Hinge — a dating app that claims to be for “people looking for real connections” — rolled out “Most Compatible,” a feature that presents users with Hinge’s daily pick for who they’re most likely to hit it off with. To take some […]
Can VR Help Overcome Fear Of Heights?)
A new study from researchers at Oxford University has used a virtual reality-based treatment to help people overcome a clinically significant fear of heights. The VR treatment is the first to demonstrate the effectiveness of a completely automated therapy guided by a computer-generated virtual therapist that responds to the patient’s voice. More than a simple medium for entertainment, modern virtual […]
The Artistic Robot
Hold still while Vincent van Bot paints your portrait. That’s right, sophisticated robots can now create works of art comparable to the old masters. The RobotArt gallery has amassed an impressive collection to show what the world’s most creative androids and algorithms (and their creators) have come up with. On Wednesday, the international contest, now in its third year, announced the […]
Spider Silk To Use To Create Artificial Skin
Unless your name is Peter Parker, you may not be aware of quite how versatile spider silk is as a material. In fact, aside from spinning webs, spider silk can also be used for a plethora of applications — from improving the quality of microphones in hearing aids to forming incredibly strong-yet-lightweight shields to forming microcapsules for delivering anti-cancer vaccines. […]
Driverless Logging Truck
It might not be the quickest vehicle at the event, but Swedish transport company Einride has chosen the Goodwood Festival of Speed to reveal the T-log, an autonomous, electric logging truck. Incorporating some unusual purpose-built design for the niche logging market, the vehicle is designed to go off-road and to navigate forest roads with and without loads. With a name […]
Underwater Jetpack?
The UK’s Archie O’Brien had a dream of zipping below the waters off Iceland or swimming with dolphins off the coast of Bora Bora. He looked at contraptions that would pull him along underwater at speed – something like the AquaJet H2 or Scubalec, for example – but everything already available proved beyond his reach. So he decided to design […]