Inhabitat: While it may seem like tattoos are the norm now, no one has ink like this. A team from the University of Illinois led by John Rogers has devised a method to actually install LED lights under the skin. The research, published today in Nature Materials, saw the team develop flexible arrays 2.5 ?m thick and 100 x 100 […]
LED Skin
Tap Squeeze Drinking Fountain
Strange New Products: Tapi is a rubber adapter that fits onto the end of most sink and garden faucets allowing you to turn them into drinking fountains. By squeezing the end, water is forced upwards. Turn Your Sink Into a Drinking Fountain [Strange New Products]
Picture Speaks a Thousand Words Literally
Iconoculture: The Photo Album Story Teller lets consumers give voice to their prized pictures. The battery-powered device comes packaged with 500 individually coded stickers. Consumers append a sticker to the photo of their choice and then scan the picture with the Story Teller and record their say on the snapshot. The next time the device passes over the pic, the […]
Smiling Bracers
Icanhasinternets: Now with the Beauty Smile Trainer, you can take your ugly daughter and instantly transform her into the next Miss America (Miss Japan, maybe?). Using this patented rubber insert you can take a sad face and make it into a thing of wonder. What a great way to introduce your 12-year to the world of vanity. Instantly Make Your […]
When Shoe and Gadgets come together
Gizmodiva: Window designs should be captivating, they should absolutely hold any passer by’s attention. That’s exactly what Dutch duo Lernert & Sander have done for big-time London department store Selfridges through their spectacular window designs series. This is stuff that will have you rooted to the spot. Take a look at the picture. First you will think it is a […]
Modernist Rocking Horse
Babygadget: It is simple. It’s elegant. It’s intriguing, too: we bet that if you saw one in real life, you’d be dying to touch it, not to mention sit on it. The Hut-Hut is a “reinterpretation of the rocking horse,” and, for all you style mavens, it does a lot less to ruin the lines of your modernist interior decoration […]
Stainless Steel Wallet
Gizmodiva: I have never come across steel wallets before, but the Women’s Stainless Steel Wallet at Hammacher makes a compelling case for itself. It is surprisingly slim, in fact it is three times thinner than a piece of paper. It has been woven from 25,000 flexible stainless steel threads and this makes it smoother than silk and stronger than leather. […]
Cool Drinks with Simple Science
FreshTrend: The design of this carafe actually keeps liquid cooler the warmer it is outside, making it completely self-cooling. No high-tech gadgets are involved, just simple science. The clay terracotta that makes up the carafe uses natural evaporation, keeping your drinks cooler longer. Self Cooling Carafe [FreshTrend]
Flavour-changing Cookie
New Scientist: Imagine you could dip your hand in the cookie jar and be guaranteed to pull out whatever flavour you feel like. For cookie-lovers visiting the SIGGRAPH computer graphics and animation conference in Los Angeles, this dream was turned into reality. We are all used to seeing, hearing and, increasingly, touching computer displays, but there has been little research […]
Kraft’s Huddle to Fight Hunger
Springwise: Kraft, however, recently launched an effort that taps multiple brands and multiple social media to involve consumers in fighting hunger. In what Kraft says is its largest multi-brand initiative to date, the company’s Huddle for Hunger program aims to “leverage America’s love for football, food and helping others, by huddling resources, voices and communities around the issue of hunger,” […]