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The Beer Can Robot [Video]

The Transformers: beer cans in disguise! [Youtube]

13 years ago

EDWARD – Electric Diwheel With Active Rotation Damping

Students from the University of Adelaide’s School of Mechanical Engineering have build a pretty cool human operated diwheel as a…

13 years ago
Introducing the PS Vita [Video]

Introducing the PS Vita [Video]

Armed with dual analog sticks, front- and rear-mounted cameras, a multi-touch backing, 5-inch OLED touchscreen, sixaxis motion sensor, wifi, 3G…

13 years ago

Tech Start-Up Offers New Hires Free Beer, Skinny Jeans

Maybe before this week no one had heard of Hipster, a San Francisco company that lets people post queries and answers…

13 years ago

Space Age Designs from the PopSci Archives

Years before Sputnik launched and even longer before The Jetsons debuted, Popular Science was tracking Space Age trends in automobiles,…

13 years ago

Asteroids! Moons! Planets! CASSINI MISSION Film Has It All

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan This is the quote designer and director Chris Abbas recalls…

13 years ago

The Solar-Powered Bikini: Because Why Not?

New York-based designer Andrew Schneider spends about 80 hours each week stitching photovoltaic mini-panels into bikini forms with conductive thread. If…

13 years ago

The Immersive Cocoon: Your Very Own Holodeck

That giant, shiny black hamster-ball up there is the Immersive Cocoon, and geeks, it is a brilliant concept design. Taking…

13 years ago

Solar-Cell “Super Skin” Is Better Than Yours

Stanford University chemical engineering Professor Zhenan Bao has developed a flexible, stretchable solar cell, which she envisions as a future component…

13 years ago

The Star Accessory by Satarii: Make your Camera Follow your Every Move

  As the camera quality improves on cellphones and handheld devices, the need for better hands-free accessories becomes more apparent.…

13 years ago