The tiny chips, which are powered by harvesting radio signals and don’t require external power, are small enough to fit on gadgets in your home, but still powerful enough to send and receive transmissions. The hope, according to the creators, is for device-makers to start using the chips in gadgets for the Internet of Things. Add one of the chips to a lightbulb, … Read More → "Engineers made a battery-free radio the size of an ant"

The acceleration of 3D printing means that even cars can be now printed. The Local Motors Strati 3D car was printed live at the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2014 last week. The printing process took just 44 hours.
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3D printers are far from a perfect technology at this point, but one of their most glaring issues is that their printing capacity is limited to the size of the machines. The print head on a 3D printer can only travel so far, which is why moving it onto a wheeled platform that’s completely mobile is a brilliant idea, and … Read More → "A robotic 3D printer could print anything, anywhere it wants"

Dremel, the company best known for its rotary power tool that’s used for everything from routing and sanding to carving and engraving, has announced that it’s taking a leap into the 21st century with its first consumer 3D printer – the Dremel 3D Idea Builder.
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The concept was to provide a fun and safe way to prevent pedestrians from jaywalking—a dance room was set up on a square in Lisbon, Portugal, inviting the people from the public to enter into the box and dance. 

Their dance moves were captured and displayed on the nearby traffic lights in real time—it successfully made 81% more pedestrians … Read More → "Traffic light shows people dancing in real time, makes crossing roads fun"

Alfred Hitchcock, our master of suspense, was incredibly good at manipulating his audience—a fact that has now come in handy for neuroscientists. When they screened a Hitchcock thriller for volunteers in a brain scanner, they found that brain activity of a man who has been in a vegetative … Read More → "Scientists used a Hitchcock thriller to measure patients’ consciousness"

NASA announced on Tuesday that it has awarded two multibillion dollar contracts to Boeing and Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, to develop spacecraft to shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The contracts will make the two companies the first commercial businesses to send NASA astronauts to space, fulfilling the … Read More → "NASA Picks Boeing and SpaceX to Build its space taxi"

As they say, sex has consequences, even for male beetles. In their quest to eradicate an invasive beetle, scientists have created “femme fatale” decoys that lure the males in and zap ’em dead—just as the unsuspecting males think they might be getting it on.
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Grandmas from all over the world are accidentally tagging themselves as hip-hop DJ Grandmaster Flash on Facebook thanks to autocorrect. Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash is a blog on Tumblr that collects some of the these priceless mistakes from grandma.
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In an effort to raise awareness of the dangers of walking and texting, China has opened separate walkways for people who are using their cell phones, and people who aren’t. They’re meant to be ironic though, and encourage people to think before texting and knocking over somebody’s grandma and breaking her hips. That poor old lady. You monster!

The special 50-metre route was mapped out in the Chinese city … Read More → "China opens separate walking lane for people texting"