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 ...

The Korean company LG Electronics has recently unveiled two new high-definition plasma TVs which offer unprecedented contrast ratio of 1-billion-to-one. In addition, the new models feature an innovative design that seamlessly integrates the speakers and the display panel, giving the ...

Chemical engineers from the University of Illinois at Urbane-Champaign have developed the world’s smallest fuel cell, measuring only about 3x3x1 mm. In comparison with conventional batteries, fuel cells are able to store much more energy in a given space and ...

The first affordable, flexible electronic displays were recently revealed by HP and Flexible Display Center (FDC) at the Arizona State University (ASU). Plastic was predominately used to develop these paper-like computer displays, which makes the device portable and more energy ...

Stephen Williams and Hannes Walter of the Austrian based company FluidForm took individual design to an all new level with CASSIUS – a lamp shade you design for yourself with your fists. A pair of boxing gloves, a sensor enhanced ...