Headlines about climate change make most of us want to avoid thinking about what life will be like as temperatures and sea levels continue to rise, but that’s exactly what inspired Japanese designer in his future-focused artistic work. Jun Kamei has created a 3D printed garment that would help humans breathe underwater. Called Amphibio, it’s “a gill garment for our […]

Cycling computers can certainly be handy devices, not only for tracking performance, but also for helping cyclists to find their way through the city. The new Mio Cyclo 210 offers an additional function, that could keep your usual ride routes from gettin’ old. Featuring an ARM Cortex-A7 processor, a 3.5-inch color touchscreen and a claimed 10 hours of battery life […]

Opening the “sipping port” on a reusable bottle can be tricky, if you’re drinking from it one-handed. If you just leave it open, though, the bottle’s contents can slosh out as you drive, jog, etc. The Lyd bottle offers a solution, in the form of a lid that only opens when your lips are touching it. Lyd’s lid has an […]

Does smoking pot or munching dope goodies impair driving? How much THC in your system means you’re too stoned to take the wheel? Never mind what your aunt or your next door neighbor says, scientists and law enforcement themselves don’t agree on whether or how much marijuana makes you a menace on the road, according to NPR. While experts argue […]

If global warming causes catastrophic flooding that inundates most of the world’s coastal urban areas by the end of the century, how will we cope? Biomimicry designer and material scientist Jun Kamei at the Royal College of Art’s answer is Amphibio – a sort of lightweight 3D-printed vest made out of a polymer that acts as both an artificial gill […]

San Francisco’s Naked Labs has started shipping its 3D-scanning smart mirror with rotating scale. Connected to a mobile app, the Naked scales build 3D models of your body, then track them through your hypothetical healthy transformation. The Naked system consists of three pieces. The first is a smart mirror, with three embedded Intel RealSense depth sensors capable of scanning objects […]

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often find it difficult to gauge other people’s emotions based on their facial expressions – this can in turn lead to problems in communicating with those people. Scientists at Stanford University, however, are seeing new hope in an approach that utilizes Google Glass smart glasses. Ordinarily, therapists use things like flash cards of faces […]

If you’re trying to capture delicate deep-sea creatures such as sea slugs via camera-guided remote control, you’re certainly not going to use hard steel pincers designed for use in the oil and mining industries. It was with this in mind that a Harvard-led team recently developed an underwater robotic gripper that has a soft touch. Built upon previous research, the […]

Multitools come in all shapes and sizes these days, but few, if any, with the diminutive profile of the Claw. This tiny tool is less than an inch long but can be put to use in a variety of scenarios and carried around discreetly when not in use. Malboro & Kane’s metallic Claw measures 0.7 inches (18 mm) to be […]

DEBUGGING. Typically, engineers want to get bugs out of their creations. Not so for the U.K. engineering firm (not the famed carmaker) Rolls-Royce — it’s looking for a way to get bugs into the aircraft engines it builds. These “bugs” aren’t software glitches or even actual insects. They’re tiny robots modeled after the cockroach. On Tuesday, Rolls-Royce shared the latest […]