Tag: INVENTION

The movies are just rife with awesome gadgets and inventions that would come in pretty handy in the real world. My Small Business, a blog at the Sydney Morning Herald, compiled a list of its 10 favorite movie inventions, including details about potential real-world uses, and whether or not they're real (or even feasible). The list includes obvious options, like the 'Men in Black' 'neuralizer' ...

British inventor David Baker thinks outside the box. In this case, the box, or boxes, are the shapes on a keyboard. Baker envisioned a completely different look for those buttons -- one that he told Register Hardware will change the way we type. Baker's patent-pending Crocodile Keyboard is a touchscreen keyboard that features triangle-shaped keys and, as a result, more space between them. The ...

We've had a lot of fun with Terrafugia over the last year or so, but we weren't exactly holding our breath in anticipation of the Transition's maiden flight. That said, we're definitely psyched to hear that the "roadable aircraft" went airborne in a super-secret test flight that took place in the early hours of March 5th at Plattsburgh International Airport. The vehicle left the ground for a ...

Every year Time Magazine wraps up the year in science and technology with its list of the top inventions of the year. Last year it was the iPhone that topped the list, beating out host of more useful and, arguably, more important innovations. This year, the Retail DNA Test (pictured above) beat out several electric cars (the Tesla Roadster, Chevy Volt, and Aptera Electric Car) as well as many ...

If you're scouting the strange, the weird and the weirder, you'll find plenty to get absorbed in over at the research facilities of NTT DoCoMo. The Japanese giant is at it once more, but this time the invention is actually somewhat down to Earth. It's mission? To create a method for easily controlling a music interface (on a PMP or cellphone) with just your eyes. By rolling one's eyes and ...

No, not that dual-screen, silly. Or that one. Or that one! The dual-screen lappie we're talking about actually has two LCD panels, one of which takes the place of a traditional keyboard / trackpad. Reportedly, V12 Designs -- which takes credit for dreaming up the design some four years ago -- is working with an undisclosed US firm in order to bring said concept to market. We're told that the ...

So maybe your stress level isn't sky high just yet, but even after an extended weekend, all it takes is that one email to get you right back where you were last Wednesday. As if you really needed something to tell you that (and if you don't have time to wait for Sweety to become a reality), a host of researchers have created a sensor-laden vest that will be able to inform wearers just how ...

What if the latest technology news came not out of Microsoft or Apple but instead from McDonald's or Pizza Hut? It would be surprising news, to say the least. Even so, it turns out that one of the biggest advances in computer tech for business was developed by an English food company back in 1951, and its principal designer, David Caminer, died on June 15 at the age of 92. Caminer is credited ...

Leave it to our friends up in Canada to spend their long winters coming up with creative modifications and twists on the familiar. Two Canadian radio control enthusiasts have made a business out of making bizarre things fly. Things not shaped like planes. Not shaped like birds. Not even shaped like a moth or a dragonfly. So, the next time you find yourself in a park on a warm sunny day, and ...

Every so often, someone comes along with an invention that confounds the experts. Peter Davey, a 92 year-old inventor and saxophonist, has a created device that looks like a small bent desk lamp, but can boil water in a matter of seconds, no matter the amount, using sound waves. Experts have yet to confirm how the device works, but apparently it does indeed work. Many doubt the man's claims that ...

Ahh, the iPhone. Winner of hearts, creator of long lines, and possible media brainwasher. If you don't believe that last point, take a look a this: 'Time Magazine' has made the iPhone its "Invention Of The Year". 'Time' claimed its number one reason for selecting the iconic touch-screen mobile was because "it's pretty," despite the iPhone really being nothing more than a muted black slab with a ...

What's worse than having to drag your achy, sleep-deprived body out of bed on Monday morning to trudge to work? How about having to wear gauze wrapped around your tongue because you tried to inhale a blistering hot cup of coffee? Luckily, Smart Lid Systems believes it has the solution to these modern dilemmas (with the exception of the "going to work" part, unfortunately). The company has ...

USA Today is running a series of top 25 lists in honor of its 25th anniversary. Their list, "25 Years of 'Eureka' Moments", is a collection of the top 25 inventions of the last 25 years. All the usual suspects are there: Cell phones, laptops, DVD's, iPods, salad in a bag ... Wait... salad in a bag? Anyway, other items include Karaoke, The StairMaster, and Purell hand sanitizer for the ...