Tuesday, December 17, 2013

3D Printed Speaker


Cornell 3D prints a whole working speaker...coils, magnets, and all.

Sunday, November 24, 2013

3D Printer Made From E-Waste


A 33-year old African builds a 3D printer built almost entirely out of garbage...

Monday, November 18, 2013

Liftoff!


MAVEN Spacecraft Launches to Mars...

Monday, November 11, 2013

MYO - Wearable Gesture Control from Thalmic Labs


With a wave of your hand, MYO will transform how you interact with your digital world...

Thursday, October 31, 2013

3D Printed Hand


Father uses a 3D printer to make his son a new hand...

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

DDG-1000 Destroyer, USS Zumwalt - Launched


USS Zumwalt hits the water as the largest Navy destroyer ever, and with a $7 billion dollar price tag, possibly the most expensive...

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Students Retaliate Against School Shootings


Concern with recent school shootings prompted a team of high school students to design an emergency door-locking mechanism to prevent active shooters from entering their classrooms...

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Arctic Doomsday Vault


 Deep in the Arctic lies a large heavily guarded door which leads down into a deep underground vault...

Friday, October 11, 2013

Feelable Touchscreens


Disney Research develops touchscreens you can feel...

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Boston Dynamics: Introducing WildCat


Boston Dynamics just unleashed a new animal to it's fleet of killer robots. Allow me to introduce the hairless feline known as "WildCat"...

Boston Dynamics: Atlas Update


Boston Dynamics' updated Atlas humanoid robot is showing off a great deal of balance...

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

NeverWet


Mustard on your shoes, normally a sticky mess that leaves a nasty stain behind...BUT spray your shoes with NeverWet and it slides right off...

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop


Learn the Mystery of Prince Rupert's Drop in super slow motion...

Body-Heat Powered Flashlight


Teenager invents a body heat powered flashlight...

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Quadruple Backflip Robot


Check out this "Horizontal Bar Gymnast Robot NO.16" as it performs a perfect quadruple backflip...

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

DoorBot is, in a word, awesome.


The new version of DoorBot is out and it's time to review the heck out of it, in that thorough Lazyboytech fashion that you'll only find here on my tech blog...

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

LUMOback


A phone app that reminds you to sit up straight...

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Pacific Rim Cockpit is Real?!


Director Guillermo Del Toro tried to use as many practical effects as possible while shooting the mega bot movie Pacific Rim, including building a full sized cockpit...

Friday, June 7, 2013

Omni Gaming Treadmill


The Omni gaming treadmill: One step closer to total immersion...

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Anti-Gravity Object Modeling


Mataerial is a new digital fabrication method that defies gravity...

Fabrican: Spray-On Fabric


Fabrican, a new spray-on fabric, could not only change fashion, but could also provide medical applications...

Water Conservation Extremes


Water conservation taken to an extreme with the fish-traumatizing faucet.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

DNA to 3D Printed Heads


Heather Dewey-Hagborg is just an ordinary scientist...who takes DNA of people she's never met and creates 3D computer generated models of them...and then prints them out and hangs them on her wall...

Monday, May 27, 2013

Future Apple Product Ideas


Some cool Apple product possibilities for 2013...

Sunday, May 26, 2013

Gaming Future...Now


What can we expect gaming consoles to look like in the future?
Check out some real life ways to interact with video games that will blow your mind...

Sunday, May 5, 2013

Braille Smartphone


Smartphones are wonderful devices...except if your blind. But that's about to change....

Thursday, April 25, 2013

In Japan, You Can Buy Your Kid A Giant Robot


The Kid's Walker from Japanese company Sakakibara Kikai is an honest to goodness robot vehicle for kids and it would make for a truly awesome Halloween costume...

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Google Glass on eBay, but you can't afford it.


Google Glass brief appearance on eBay...

Monday, April 15, 2013

Construction of world's largest optical telescope approved.


If you love eye-popping images of space, here's welcome news: the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources has backed building what's to be the world's largest, most powerful optical telescope above the clouds atop the volcano Mauna Kea...

'The Matrix' is back (in your hospital)


Agent Smith takes over the hospital scene in GE's new ad...watch it here.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Astronauts Don't Cry


The commander of the International Space Station shows how crying in space only leads to a big water bubble on your eye.


Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Intelli-Steam

The Vianté Home Products Intellisteam coordinates mealtime. Three individual cooking compartments all complete the cooking process at the same time. 

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Petman's New Look


No, it's not human. It's a robot.

Friday, April 5, 2013

3D Printed Hand


New Kickstarter for 3D-printed robotic hands could cost as little as $450 for and assembled hand and arm.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Boeing 787 Dreamliner


Boeing 787 Dreamliner completes test flight with new battery system. Boeing hopes to show aircraft meets safety standards following worldwide grounding of all 50 Dreamliners in January...the plight of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner...

10 Terabytes Per Second Internet Speeds


Researchers are developing a new fiber optic cable, that can almost reach the speed of light.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Street Pong


Quite possibly the coolest traffic stop anywhere on earth...
But wait! If you've already seen this then skip to the end for a dark secret...

Monday, March 18, 2013

A New Patent Filing Service



The new First-to-File provision of the America Inventions Act leads the way for Christie Street to create a new cost-effective way to file patents...

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Human Extension


Just a couple really cool mechanical extensions of the human being...

Crazy Lego Creations -- Part 1


Just a pile of bricks?
In a step away from my usual posts, I decided to put together a compilation of some of the coolest mechanical Lego creations that I know of...

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

LCD Contact Lens


In a couple of year you might be receiving text messages directly to your contact lenses...

International Space Station -- Further Up Yonder


NASA Television shares an inspiring production by Italian videomaker, Giacomo Sardelli, about the International Space Station, its inhabitants, and its role in space exploration...

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Google's Talking Shoe


Time to attach computers to more parts of our bodies? Google's "Talking Shoe" turns your feet into motivational drill sergeants...

VoxFox - The Story of Megan Fox's Hidden Passion.


Because nothing says Acer better than Megan Fox trying to talk to dolphins...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

DNA Tagging Gun


It may look more like a high tech water pistol or something out of a sci-fi film than the latest weapon in the fight against crime...

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Musical Robots


Robots performing music...a perplexing concept, entertaining to some and creepy to others. Here I've gathered together several of the most interesting, or bizarre, musical robots...