Iranian designer Pouyan Mokhtarani has proposed the Mercury Skate, a concept product design, with the purpose of decreasing skater fatigue while providing a more luxurious and smoother ride on pavement. The Mercury Skate was created with a new in-line style ...

The globally based company Philips Electronics recently presented research on a new force feedback jacket at the IEEE-sponsored 2009 World Haptics Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. The haptics jacket responds to signals either encoded in a DVD or transmitted ...

Researchers Biswajit Ghosh and Marek Urban at the University of Southern Mississippi are developing self-repairing polymers that will heal themselves upon exposure to sunlight. The new material is composed of scratch-resistant polyurethane, oxetane (OXE), and chitosan (CHI) – as the ...

A unique goo-like substance, which upon strong impact immediately locks itself into a solidified form and then back into goo, was created by a British company. The material, which was dubbed “d3o,” is already being used in a range of ...

The U.K. company Screen Excellence’s new VistaCurve projection screen has been developed to give movie theater experiences at home. The curved system is available in sizes up to 160 inches wide and uses an acoustically transparent woven screen, similar to ...

The EyeBorg Project is the work of Rob Spence, a one-eyed Canadian filmmaker and Kosta Grammatis, a former avionics systems engineer. Spence and Grammatis have teamed up with Phil Bowen, an ocularist, and Steve Mann, an expert on wearable computing ...

The original Rubik’s cube became a cultural phenomenon throughout the world when it was released on the market in 1980. The Hong Kong based company Techno Source has spent three years in the development of the new Rubik’s Touch Cube. ...

Researchers at Cambridge University have found a new way to produce light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which they say can reduce the cost of LED products by as much as 75 percent in five years time. At the basis of the novel ...

The California-based company Flexicord has recently introduced an innovative technology called, a Memory Cord, which allows cables to hold their shape no matter how they are extended or bent. The new patent-pending technology has won the Innovations Award Honoree during ...

Engineers at Toshiba have developed batteries that can be recharged to 90% of their capacity with a current as large as 50 amperes (A) in less than five minutes. Mr. Toshiharu Watanabe, Corporate Vice President of Toshiba Corporation and Chief ...