It can be frustrating, messing up the lyrics when you’re trying to sing along to one of your favorite songs as it’s playing on the stereo. That might not happen as often if you shell out to buy Cotodama’s wireless Lyric Speaker, which displays the words to the songs it’s playing. Handmade in Japan at a rate of just 15 […]
Wireless Lyrics Speaker
Handling Sea Creatures With Soft Gloves
If you’re trying to capture delicate deep-sea creatures such as sea slugs via camera-guided remote control, you’re certainly not going to use hard steel pincers designed for use in the oil and mining industries. It was with this in mind that a Harvard-led team recently developed an underwater robotic gripper that has a soft touch. Built upon previous research, the […]
Spyra’s The Next Level Squirt Gun
Remember the big ol’ pulse rifle that Sigourney Weaver used to kill xenomorphs in the movie Aliens? Well, imagine if she’d been using an equally-nasty squirt gun instead. Chances are, it would have looked something like the water-bullet-shooting Spyra One. Developed by a Munich-based team of engineers and designers, the Spyra One uses its electric pump to suck 750 ml […]
A Night On The Great Wall Of China?
Airbnb has come up with another of its clever marketing stunts that offers competition winners a stay in one-of-a-kind locations. In a similar vein to its underwater bedroom and Lego House experiences, it’s now offering the opportunity to spend one night on the Great Wall of China. Few works of architecture approach the grandeur and timelessness of the Great Wall. […]
Tiniest Multitool
Multitools come in all shapes and sizes these days, but few, if any, with the diminutive profile of the Claw. This tiny tool is less than an inch long but can be put to use in a variety of scenarios and carried around discreetly when not in use. Malboro & Kane’s metallic Claw measures 0.7 inches (18 mm) to be […]
Rolls Royce Building Insects Like Robots To Fix Plane Engines
DEBUGGING. Typically, engineers want to get bugs out of their creations. Not so for the U.K. engineering firm (not the famed carmaker) Rolls-Royce — it’s looking for a way to get bugs into the aircraft engines it builds. These “bugs” aren’t software glitches or even actual insects. They’re tiny robots modeled after the cockroach. On Tuesday, Rolls-Royce shared the latest […]
From Bank To Modern Hostel
A former bank in downtown Jyväskylä, Finland, has been converted into a modern hostel by Studio Puisto Architects making use of the empty 1953 building. They skipped the typical hostel go-to of dormitory style rooms and instead created smaller, private bedrooms with public spaces surrounding them. On top of the mini bedrooms, Hostel Jyväskylä offers a full restaurant along with […]
Control A Drone With Your Body
PUT DOWN THE JOYSTICK. If you’ve ever tried to pilot a drone, it’s probably taken a little while to do it well; each drone is a little different, and figuring out how to use its manual controller can take time. There seems to be no shortcut other than to suffer a crash landing or two. Now, a team of researchers […]
Does Your Business Still Need A Printer In The Paperless Age?
Technology keeps marching on and changing the way we approach business processes in a whole host of ways. Yet the phrase “paperless office” is one that anyone under 50 has been familiar with for their entire working lives. Way back in the 1990s, people were talking about going paper free in the digital age. A quarter of a century later, […]
Ride On Water
Pre-sale registrations are now open for the Manta5, a Kiwi-built, 400-watt hydrofoiling e-bike that lets you ride effortlessly on water like a life-jacketed, 2,000-year-old Jewish carpenter on a fitness kick. These look like an extraordinarily cool recreational and exercise toy for anyone who lives near a large body of water and who’s learned the hard way to stop changing it […]