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 ...

The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has developed a Flexible Integrated Energy Device, which is actually a garment capable of charging electrical devices with power generated by the wearer’s movements. The new technology has numerous potential applications, ...

“Pebble” is a solar food heater concept created by Laura Pandelle, a French design student, who is one of the finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 07 Competition. The Pebble is designed to operate by using spray-on solar cells, a ...

The Xplorer GPS Smart shoe tracks the wearer’s location and provides a history of their movement. The GPS-enabled shoe is the result of cooperation between Enfora and Global Trek Xploration Corporation (GTXC). The advantage of the shoe is that although ...

“D-Wave Systems” and Dr. Hartmut Neven – a scientist from Google, will demonstrate an image recognition algorithm running on a quantum computer, at the “Super Computing 2007” (SC07) Conference. The conference will take place in Nevada this week. The device, ...