Going off the air engine design of Robert Stirling does this tiny little mechanism give you an entertaining spin. Using pistons fueled by temperature difference, the wheel on this tinker toy spins, offering up to one hour of laughs and fun. That’s right, it doesn’t need to be sitting atop a cup of coffee or…

Sony has just announced that they plan on coming out with a new battery, the catch is that it runs on glucose (sugar). The battery will basically work the same way the human body does. It will break down the carbohydrates with enzymes. This is a crazy invention in my opinion. Even though the battery…

There is a new ring that is available on the market. Besides for looking good this new ring has an amazing feature. It can be used to spray pepper spray at someone. The page where I found this, boingboing.com did not say how it worked, but from the picture it seemed like the pepper spray…

People have tapped into a rats brain and can give it directions. They stimulate the whiskers, and the rat is trained to go in the respective direction of which whisker is stimulated. If the rat does what it is told, its reward center of its brain is stimulated. Not actually being awarded and being told…

Hacking may seem like fun for the person behind it, but the person being screwed over may not think so. on this occasion its at your own risk, hacking into your iphone not only can be very tricky but costly. the “Harro” the one behind the instructions claims that if you follow the step you…

I saw one of Z Corporation’s first printers a while ago, and it was like seeing Angelina Jolie kiss her brother (amazing). The printer is able to create 3D models that were once created on a computer and can be used for just about anything. Architects and Engineers use these printers to present their projects,…

Intimate Transactions is not only an impressive way for people across the globe to communicate, but the apparatus is also a unique work of art that that evokes the senses. By using a unique piece of ‘smart furniture,’ users are able to communicate with the smallest of gestures and movements. These actions transmit images, sounds,…

Long, long ago, in a university far, far away (USC) some really clever students came up with a way of generating what appears to be a free standing hologram, a la Star Wars. Really though, all they did was use “a standard programmable graphics card to render over 5,000 images per second of interactive 3D…

An Edison Power Station manager engineered an Ambient Orb, that was originally intended for monitoring one’s financial portfolio, to serve a greener purpose. Mark Martinez, the Power Station Engineer in California, needed to find a way to inform customers of their massive energy consumption. His creativity lead him to the Ambient Orb. The orb would…

So the Reactable is a visual audio interactive sound controller that uses coded 3d shapes placed on a track-able opaque table top, it’s been around for a while now and Bjork has even got her grubby hands on it which means it must be innovative!, but it is pretty awesome just the same, it is…

Expo Zaragoza 2008 will feature a new take on Wright’s famous Fallingwater. The Digital Water Pavilion will feature digitally controlled walls of water droplets. A system of valves and sensors will allow the creation of complex patterns, such as doors or even letters, within the droplets comprising the walls. Project developer Carlo Ratti likens the…

First off, i’m not sure as to whether this project has been built yet, but the idea and design of this room seems pretty amusing. The Muscle Room, an interactive hotel room, designed by HGR looks completey empty upon entering the room. The walls and floor of the room is acutaly composed of a system…