New York-based designer Andrew Schneider spends about 80 hours each week stitching photovoltaic mini-panels into bikini forms with conductive thread. If you think you’d like an iKini (that’s right–an iKini), be prepared to drop about $200 for the custom-fitted swimsuit. Each suit comes equipped with four hidden pockets for carrying anything from a cell phone to […]
That giant, shiny black hamster-ball up there is the Immersive Cocoon, and geeks, it is a brilliant concept design. Taking all the best features of what used to be fake science and applying them to a room-sized spherical theater… well, it’s indistinguishable from magic, really. Imagine having a personal Holodeck. Aside from all the pervy […]
Stanford University chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao has developed a flexible, stretchable solar cell, which she envisions as a future component in artificial skin for robots, human prosthetic limbs, or even clothing. The film stretches up to 30% from its original size along two axes without losing function or resulting in loss of elasticity. That kind of […]
As the camera quality improves on cellphones and handheld devices, the need for better hands-free accessories becomes more apparent. The two guys who make up Satarii have a great idea–the Star Accessory, which was successfully funded through donations in an Indie GoGo campaign. http://vimeo.com/17938702 The video pretty much shows you everything you need […]
The problem with setting up permanent encampments on extraterrestrial bodies is simple: Earth is the only place we’ve found that supports life–at least the kinds we know about. Every force of nature works against us when it comes to building a home away from our planet. The logistics of providing a team of space cowboys (and […]
The folks from Martin Jetpack have finally tested their personal jetpack outside; they flew a unit up 5000 ft. in the air, landing it later via a commercially available ballistic parachute. Check it out: [Via]
According to Cisco there’ll be an average of two internet connected devices per person by 2015. The company also believes there’ll be almost three billion internet users by that date. The stats are part of the company’s latest “Visual Networking Index” forecast, which aims to predict future net use and its contributing factors. The headline […]
Created by students at the Swinburne University of Technology, this robot can solve a fully scrambled rubik’s cube in about 10 seconds, which includes the time it takes to scan each face of the cube. Check it out: [Via]
B: “Attack of the Clones was on last night.” A: “Missed it. I watched Two and a Half Men reruns.” B: “I should have, too.” Lingodroids are nifty little robots who create their own language. Ruth Schulz and her group of researchers from the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology developed the robots, who […]
This robotic juggler, which can juggle five billiard balls at the same time was designed and built by researchers at the Department of Control Engineering at Prague’s Czech Technical University. The five ball juggling operation is the most difficult to control, because all five axis must be controlled synchronously and the throwing up the third, […]