Iconoculture: “With this bone, I thee wed.” Five U.K. couples recently sealed their vows by exchanging rings made from their own bone tissue, grown in the lab from sample cells. Scientists harvested the cells from tiny slivers extracted from the couples’ jawbones, then grew new tissue in bioglass scaffolds that mimic human bone structure. Artists fused the pure white bone […]

Vitro Laser GmbH: Our developments revolutionize the marking of different materials by laser technology. Conventional methods are limited to the marking of the materials’ surface. With our laser subsurface engraving method the surface remains untouched. The desired marking is carried out inside the material. The laser beam will be precisely focused in order to keep the finest formations and details […]

eMediaWire: Just days ago, millions of people around the world were gifted at least one of the “big 10” electronic devices boosting in store and online sales in 2006 including Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3 and PSP, ipod Nano, Blackberry, Treo, DELL Notebook Laptop, Motorola and Palm. In capitalizing on this trend towards personalization mytego.com has developed a technology where customers […]

Uber-Review: The Hug Shirt is perfect for people in love that are distant from each other, it basically offers the possibility to recreate a hug feeling and not on a virtual kind of way. The shirt works with Bluetooth + a Hug Me java software + a cellphone and in order for the other person to receive the hug, he/she […]

13WHAM-TV: Photocopier paper that erases itself hours after it’s been used? It’s in the works. Xerox researchers are testing it at a lab near Toronto Canada. The Xerox Research Center of Canada is one of five global centers. The Center in Canada focuses on the future of the document, inks, toners and imaging. It’s also the place where self-erasing paper […]

we make money not art: Scientists at the CSIRO’s Textile and Fibre Technology division in Australia have woven electronic sensors into a T-shirt (the WIS – the Wearable Instrument Shirt) so that it can be played liked a real guitar. Movements by the wearer’s arms are mapped and beamed by radio to a computer which interprets them and turns them […]

LATimes.com: Baker came up with the kiosk idea a couple of years ago. He had just kicked off a $3-million building drive, but noticed that few people seemed to keep cash in their wallet anymore for the collection bag. So he began studying the electronic payment business. He designed his machine with the help of a computer programmer who attends […]

Shiny Shiny: Housework: bane of everybody’s lives. Fact. I mean, no one actually enjoys dusting and polishing do they? So this gadget is sure to bring much happiness: RoboMop is a battery powered 8.5 centimetre dusting machine, replete with electro static pad no less. It’s a strange contraption that looks as if the design team were visited by alien spacecraft […]

FutureWire: Bytes, a new cafe in the UK town of Canterbury (of Chaucer fame), is making a name for itself with its high-tech ordering system. Aside from helping Bytes save money on wait staff and menu printing, the touchscreens allow the restaurant to build a database of customer preferences, and to change items and prices on the fly. The touchscreens […]

Iconoculture: At last – energy independence for toys. Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies’ fuel cell toys are small-scale vehicles powered by the energy source of the future. Its H-racer miniature fuel cell car features an onboard hydrogen fuel cell system. Fill ‘er up at the miniature hydrogen refueling station. Sure it’s educational – but more important, it’s cool! Toys that offer […]