DJI’s new obstacle avoidance tech aims to make drones crash proof
Guidance is essentially a multimodal sensing system that gives the company's newly unveiled Matrice 100 drone autonomous obstacle avoidance capabilities.
New $25 blood test can tell you every virus you’ve ever had
You might not care to know all the illnesses you've ever had, but that kind of information is invaluable to virologists.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Bionic hearing earbuds and bladeless wind turbines
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
Watch live as 24 humanoid robots compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
In an effort to move disaster relief tech forward, DARPA has launched a robotics competition. In order to win, teams must create a robot that can accomplish a variety of different tasks -- such as walking over rubble, opening doors, and driving vehicles.
Summer is coming: Make your dumb AC smart with Tado
If this freshly-launched Kickstarter campaign reaches its goal, you won't have to dish out big bucks for a smart AC.
The Tweeting Pothole sends complaints directly to public officials when run over
Pressure sensors inside Panama City potholes will tweet repair requests to city officials when run over.
Watch this tiny robot assemble itself, carry things around, and dissolve into nothing
When placed on a heated surface, the bot's PVC layer will contract, causing it to fold up into an origami shape with legs and a body.
Projection mapping on the Sydney Opera House is the coolest thing you’ll see all day
Every year, the Sydney Opera House invites artists to bring along their projectors and beam animations onto the building's iconic sails.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Folding kayaks & gravity-powered lamps
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
Pizza Hut designed an experimental pizza box that transforms into a projector
In a recently-launched campaign for Pizza Hut, a Hong Kong ad firm has designed the "Blockbuster Box" -- a cardboard pizza box that transforms into a projector once you're done eating the pie inside.
Motorize your favorite scuffed-up skateboard with Mellow
The Mellow module includes dual in-wheel motors capable of zipping you around at 25 miles per hour, and a high-capacity lithium-ion battery that'll keep you going for about ten miles per charge.
Fill ‘er up: This gas-powered drone flies for an hour straight, hits 60 mph
Instead of relying solely on batteries and electric motors, the recently-unveiled Yeair! drone uses a mixture of battery power and good old-fashioned combustion engines.
Brilliant new bearing design spins with 10x less friction, doesn’t require grease
A Japanese engineering firm has reportedly developed a new type of bearing that spins with up to 10 times less friction than the bearings we currently use.
This hydrogen-powered drone can theoretically fly for four hours straight
Instead of using the standard lithium-ion cells that most drones rely on for power, the upcoming Hycopter drone uses hydrogen as its energy source. A working version is under development
Brilliant new 3D printer folds up like a briefcase, prints dozens of different materials
The Focus is the first 3D printer specifically designed for easy transport. It's also compatible with an extremely wide range of materials.
Kokoon EEG headphones can detect when you’re in deep sleep, trigger lucid dreams
Kokoon is a set of app-enabled EEG headphones that can perform a wide variety of different functions -- including the potential to induce lucid dreams.
Electroloom prints ready-to-wear clothing like a cotton candy machine gone haywire
Rather than creating garments with a series of snap-together plastic parts, the Electroloom uses a process it calls Field Guided Fabrication to create real, fabric-based clothing from scratch
With the help of bacteria, this amazing new bio-concrete can repair its own cracks
Researchers have developed a special kind of "bio-concrete" that's imbued with a specific strain of bacteria. When the concrete fractures, the bacteria will spring into action and fill the crack back up with limestone.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Solar sails, jelly printers, EEG headphones
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
Forget plastic — this 3D printer retrofit makes it possible to print fudge, jelly, and more
Instead of feeding plastic filament through a heated nozzle, Bocusini works like a super-precise pastry bag, and deposits food onto your plate, layer-by-layer, from a syringe-like cartridge
GE engineers just made a fully-functional 3D printed jet engine
To showcase the versatility of 3D printing as a manufacturing process, a team of engineers at GE recently built a fully-functional, backpack-sized jet engine made entirely from 3D-printed parts.
Like a futuristic Band-Aid, this wearable patch relieves pain at the push of a button
Cur sends out electrical pulses designed to confuse your nerves and cancel out the pain signal they're sending to your brain -- thereby providing instant pain relief to the area of the body on which the device is placed.
Mr. Everything can play music, charge your gadgets, and even jump your car
Inside the confines of its sleek, modern exterior, Mr. Everything boasts a set of Bluetooth speakers, a wireless charging pad, a set of LED lights, a storage compartment, and more ports than you can shake a stick at.
This ingenious device makes it impossible to slouch in your office chair
Instead of using wearable sensors to pester you throughout the day, BetterBack uses a set of simple, adjustable straps to keep your spine from bending into an arc while you sit.
Doody Duty: London cops are DNA testing dog poop to track down lazy owners
A borough of London will require dog park users to submit DNA cheek swabs for their pets, allowing park wardens to test any stray dog poop they find.
Scientists add carbon nanotubes to spider silk, create ridiculously strong fibers
It's already one of the strongest fibers found in nature, but believe it or not, a team of researchers at the University of Trento, Italy have figured out a way to make spider silk even stronger.
As sales plummet, Keurig promises to bring back refillable K-cups
Green Mountain is giving customers the ability to brew their java of choice, but isn't doing away with the DRM-like system that blocks out competitor cups
You’d never guess it just by looking at them, but these sneakers are 3D printed
Past attempts at 3D printer footwear have looked like something from a bad sci-fi movies, but the new sneakers from People Footwear are worth your money.
PhoneDrone turns your phone into an autonomous quadcopter
Idaho-based drone startup xCraft has designed a wild new quadcopter exoskeleton that leverages all the sensor tech and computing power you already carry around with you inside your smartphone.
Brilliant new imaging system gives soldiers hybrid thermal/night vision on the battlefield
Currently, soldiers need to to carry separate imaging systems for each function: goggles for night vision, and a special scope for thermal imaging. BAE's new RTA system fixes that.
Say “Cheese!” New technique can bust you for being hammered from an infrared pic
Thanks to a new technique developed by pair of physics professors, cops might not need a breathalyzer to tell if you're drunk anymore -- all they'd need is an infrared photo of your face.
This week in awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Inside-out umbrella and the MoonRay
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!