Humans are better than machines. However, the advantages of humans over machines have been in steady retreat – we gave up on physical strength first, then on some mental capacities such as computation, and now we’re in the process of ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have recently released a video and audio search tool that allows students to find specific words in video lectures. The MIT Lecture Browser website gives the general public detailed access to more ...

The Nokia Eco Sensor Concept is a ‘green’ mobile phone, designed to enhance our awareness both of the environment and of ourselves. The phone comes with a wearable sensor unit powered by alternative energy sources, which monitors our health, our ...

Adidas and the German Cairos Technologies Company have recently tested Teamgeist II, an intelligent soccer ball, at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan, 2007. Teamgeist II features new intelligent technology that uses a magnetic field to provide pinpoint accuracy ...

The Danish designed TrioBike is the world’s first carrier-bike which combines a bike and pushchair in one. The front carrier can be easily removed, leaving the bike and the pushchair separated. The Triobike provides a safe and simple way to ...

The AquaMaker AM10 is an innovative water-generating machine that was designed to enhance water availability and reduce power consumption by generating water from the air we breathe. The Aquamaker AM10 uses air filtering technology that prevents the growth of algae ...

A team of American scientists are developing the “StupidFilter” – an open-source filter software that will be able to detect “rampant stupidity” of web-content in written English. Similarly to the way spam recognizing software detects suspicious e-mails, the “StupidFilter” will ...

The Blackbird Rider is an acoustic guitar with full-bodied sound in a highly portable package – 30% smaller than a traditional acoustic guitar. This was achieved thanks to the material chosen to construct this unique guitar – carbon fiber. Carbon ...

Joao Diego Schimansky, a student at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana in Brazil, is one of eight finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 2007 annual global competition. Schimansky designed a concept called “Fog Shower”, a showerhead that consumes much less ...

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been developing (and licensing) two novel technologies that may help bring to the market affordable graphic reading systems for the blind and visually impaired. The two systems bring electronic images ...