It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Jet-man! – a.k.a. Yves Rossy, former Swiss army pilot, currently Swiss airline pilot, and inventor who developed a working model of a personal winged jetpack. Jet-man jumped from a small plane over ...

In 2003, Adam Whiton, an industrial designer at MIT, and Yolita Nugent, head designer at Advanced Research Apparel, developed the No-Contact Jacket, a stylish, sporty woman’s jacket that repels an assailant trying to grab the wearer with a powerful but ...

Give up? The Domino’s a… radiator to heat the modern home – living room, bedroom, bathroom – or office by the Italian heating manufacturer Tubor. But that’s not all. Renowned designer Matteo Thun, with assistance somewhere along the way from ...

Want a neon sign for your store, business, or home? Here’s an interesting solution from International Robotics. NeonClick are individual, colored neon letters, numbers, symbols, and punctuations, which reside within transparent, fire-resistant, plastic casings that snap together like Lego blocks ...

U.K.-based SplashPower is currently developing a technology for wireless recharging of devices by electromagnetic induction. SplashPower’s wireless rechargers comprise two sorts of ‘SplashPads’ – an electromagnetic induction pad that recharges a single device atop it, such as a digital camera, ...

The Uber-Graph will be produced as a limited edition glass HDTV screen by the UberCoolHome Company. Though marketed as a Holographic display, it’s actually a glass rear projection screen that hangs in the middle of a room giving the illusion ...

In 2003, following five years under construction, the Jubilee Church (Dio Padre Misericordioso) in Rome opened to the public. This magnificent looking structure, with its three concentric concrete arcs, was designed by the renowned architect Richard Meier. But the striking ...

Wanna help move things along at a party or create a gathering in a bar or a restaurant? After the Philips Entertaible, the Kloss DeLighTable, and the Sensitive Floor comes the latest in interactive social environment furnishings – the Moritz Waldemeyer ...

Portable laptop? What about a portable desk? This foldable aluminum desk is designed specifically for using laptop computers comfortably in all sorts of positions – while sitting on a chair or sofa, lying on your back in bed – or ...

In collaboration with Akishima Laboratories (Mitsui Zosen), Professor Shigeru Naito of Osaka University has created a prototype device that draws letters and simple shapes on water! The device is composed of 50 water wave generators encircling a 30 cm deep, ...