Enter its 64th year, the Good Design International Award continues to
celebrate the latest and greatest innovative products and industrial
goods from all over the world. With dozens of categories available to
showcase your ingenuity, there’s surely a special place for your bright
ideas to this classic Chicago-based contest!
Looking to build a small NAS? Gigabyte’s latest ITX motherboard might be right up your alley, with its energy-efficient yet speedy Intel processor and numerous expansion options.
Prolific inventor (and possible mad scientist) Mir Imran has created a robotic pill which could replace injectible drugs. This would have been impossible just a few years ago, but now it might well become a common sight in medicine. What’s more, it could very well replace syringes altogether.
If you’re a fan of survival horror, have I got a treat for you today. I’d like to introduce all of you to Nevermind: a horror game which keeps track of how scared you are…and uses that knowledge to terrify you even more. Pretty intriguing, no?
A new study conducted by researchers at Northwestern University’s
Feinberg School of Medicine indicates that sitting too much not only
leads to heart disease, but is a risk for disability among men and women
over 60, regardless of how much exercise they get at other times.
Feces Scale
I have a friend who tries to calm my food fears by reassuring me that something that doesn’t weigh a pound cannot make me gain a pound. Fine! But what about the bag of chocolate covered nuts (they’re filled with protein) I ate this morning? The one I forgot to weigh on my food scale? How much of that have I got sitting inside of me, threatening the needle of my bathroom scale? read more »
The way bats move their wings while in flight could serve as inspiration for a new generation of flying robots. Researchers are examining closely how fruit bats use their wings to manipulate the air around them. An understanding of these processes could in turn help them produce better designs.
Once again, DuPont is looking throughout the packaging industry for the
year’s most innovative, environmentally responsible and overall
fantastic designs. If you’ve recently helped to design a consumer
friendly bag, box, wrapper, container or other piece of professional
packaging, it’s your time to shine!
There is a big business in scaring people, and it is a concept that
doesn’t just find people knocking down its haunted doors for Halloween.
Many major tourist areas across North America feature haunted houses and
mazes that have people lining up to pee their pants as people jump out
of the shadows. While the more traditional scare providers are still
successfully operating, there is a new type of terror in town competing
in the market, and it creates a unique and scary experience that rivals
some popular, nightmare inducing movies.
A group of scientists at Harvard University have just developed the latest in biomimicry: a group of autonomous construction robots whose behavior is based on real-world termites. It is hopes that these TERMES, as they’re called, will eventually create a fully automated work-force.
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