Oh, imagine the possibilities! 

Plastics and resins usually seem like the anti-sustainability. They are often made from petroleum, they rarely biodegrade, and without industrial facilities and resource extraction, they wouldn’t exist. But as technology and manufacturing advance, moldable materials are converging with sustainable design practices.

In the footwear industry, as in many others, plastics are being put forward as … Read More → "3D printed shoes"

There’s a million ways to read a book now — on tablets, e-readers, smartphones, phablets, whatever. But how many of you know how a good old-fashioned paper book is made? Glen Milner’s “Birth of a Book” shows the entire book creation process and it’s way more interesting than just throwing an e-book together.
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This project is a fully working prototype made with Arduino and Max/Msp.

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Noisy jelly is a game where the player has to cook and shape his own musical material, based on coloured jelly.

With this noisy chemistry lab, the gamer will create his own jelly with water and a few grams of agar agar powder. After added different color, the mix is then pour in the molds. 10 min later, the jelly shape can then be placed on the game board,and by touching the shape, the gamer … Read More → "Musical Jell-O"

Whether you’re speeding down the slopes, on a biking epic through the woods or riding the rapids in a kayak, having to wait until you get to a laptop to share your recorded adventures with friends and family is nothing short of inconvenient. The ION AIR PRO HD Sports Video Camera is said to be one of the first actioncams capable of recording full HD video and sharing it in real time on … Read More → "ION AIR PRO actioncam uploads real-time footage to the cloud"

The Mega Millions lottery drawing Friday night will deliver a jackpot estimated at $540 million. Your odds of picking the winning combo are 175.7 million to one. Divide one number by the other. That means a ticket is worth $3.07, right? Maybe you should buy as many as you can?

Not so fast. There’s a little more to the math here. You have … Read More → "$500 million jackpot: calculating your odds"

E Ink devices are about to get a lot more like paper. LG has just started mass production of the first flexible, plastic E Ink displays. The flexible E Ink displays have a resolution of 1024×768 and are 6 inches diagonal, much like the Kindle and Nook. Unlike the Kindle and Nook, these flexible displays are made primary out of plastic instead of glass laminate, allowing them to be flexible as well as 30% thinner, 50% lighter, … Read More → "Flexible E ink displays now in mass production"

It’s five times the size of the Earth! If the size of this solar tornado doesn’t scare the pants off you, the temperature of it should. This solar twister is made from gas ranging from 90,000 to 3.6 million degrees Fahrenheit.

Sure, you saying. It’s the sun — it’s supposed to be hot. Clearly we’re going to … Read More → "Solar tornado five times the size of the Earth"

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Earth’s wind patterns flow much in the same way as the oceans below them. This collaboration between Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg shows which way the winds of America are blowing.
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The Star Trek tricorder has become a reality, thanks to the hobby project of a cognitive science researcher. Dr. Peter Jansen has developed a handheld mobile computing device that has a number of sophisticated embedded sensors. The device is modeled after the distinctive design of the 24th-century tricorder.

He began working on the project in 2007 and aims to make it easy … Read More → "Researcher publishes specs for real Linux-powered Star Trek tricorder"