One of the wildest camper concepts we’ve looked at is finally a reality. The Romotow caravan was originally revealed over a decade ago and had all the makings of being a one-and-done concept. It was created by an architecture and design firm, existed only as renderings at the time of introduction, and looked entirely like a flight of fancy. But in late 2018, […]
Romotow Camper
Multi-use POD
New Zealand-based Dreadnort Boats, not surprisingly, is best known for its watercraft. That said, the company has now unveiled a multi-use portable structure called the POD … which will definitely get its user noticed. First of all, we should point out that Dreadnort Boats is actually the result of a collaboration between two other firms, Transformarine Naval Architects and Altech […]
Library In Nature
Heatherwick Studio has revealed plans for its first public library. The building showcases a similar design language to previous projects by the high-profile British firm, such as Maggie’s Leeds and Little Island, and will be defined by an eye-catching greenery covered exterior that invites visitors to walk on top of it all the way up to a rooftop terrace. The Columbia Library will […]
Boxing Buddy
While punching bags do help boxers hone their craft, the things don’t replicate one key aspect of real boxing – they don’t punch back. The Boxing Buddy, which is currently on Indiegogo, is designed to address that shortcoming. Putting it simply, the Boxing Buddy setup consists of two padded robotic arms that get strapped onto a third-party punching bag at […]
Sonar Enabled Glasses
Some people lack the power of speech, while others may find themselves in noisy settings where speaking voice commands out loud just won’t work. Such folks might have use for the EchoSpeech glasses, which read their user’s silently spoken words. The experimental eyewear is being developed by a team at Cornell University’s Smart Computer Interfaces for Future Interactions (SciFi) Lab. […]
Dribble Bot
MIT’s Improbable Artificial Intelligence Lab has developed a Dexterous Ball Manipulation with a Legged Robot (DribbleBot) that can dribble a soccer ball under real-world conditions similar to those encountered by a human player. Robot soccer (football to some) has been around since the mid-1990s, though these matches have tended to be a fairly simplified version of the human game. However, […]
Hanago Music
A new 16-string, single-fret acoustic instrument called the Hanago has launched on Kickstarter, which is designed to combine the best aspects of piano and guitar to make learning to play easy, while also laying down the foundations of music theory. The Hanago is already on sale in South Korea via music brand Koaura, and is launching to US string pickers […]
Light Therapy Slow Heart Aging
Light therapy has shown promise in everything from helping burn wounds heal faster to killing tumors and helping guide antibodies to their cancerous targets. Now, the next in its beam looks to be the heart. A University at Buffalo study on older mice found that photobiomodulation (PBM) therapy could slow down cardiovascular aging and significantly delay the onset of diseases such as heart disease, stroke and […]
Distillery Twist & Turn Through Landscape
Purveyor of Kentucky bourbon Blue Run Spirits has revealed plans for a new Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)-designed headquarters and distillery in Georgetown. The eye-catching building will be defined by a twisting form inspired by a local spring and will reduce its grid-based energy needs with a focus on natural light and solar power. The project, named Meander, will be centered […]
Self-Steering Droids
Here’s a quick overview of how P2 is intended to work … A worker at one location starts by placing a cargo item inside a droid – this is basically a streamlined box with a shrouded propeller at the rear. In a docking station at that location, the droid is then loaded into the belly of one of Zipline’s P2 […]