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Eclipse Calculator: a new application to simulate eclipses on your smartphone

Which future eclipses will be visible from my location? How will they be like? How long will they last? These are some of the questions answered by the new application Eclipse Calculator, designed for Android.

January 17, 2013 Read more

Stealth ware - New designs for counter surveillance

The anti-drone hoodie and anti-drone scarf: garments designed to thwart thermal imaging, a technology used widely by UAVs.

January 15, 2013 Read more

Cynaps: Bluetooth, bone conduction headset in a baseball cap (w/video)

Cynaps is the world's first bluetooth enabled, bone conduction headset, discreetly installed into an easy to wear hat. Just put it on to take a call or hear music on your mobile phone or PC. No earphones required.

January 14, 2013 Read more

CST-01: The world's thinnest watch (w/video)

A 0.80mm thin flexible wristwatch with an E Ink display housed in a single piece of stainless steel.

January 11, 2013 Read more

The world's first 'smart' fork helps you lose weight and eat right

Designed by French engineer Jacques Lepine, HAPIfork, the world's first smart connected fork, knows how fast you're eating and helps you slow down using a patent-pending technology.

January 10, 2013 Read more

Airline lost your luggage? Track it on a map with Trakdot

The Trakdot Luggage tracker fits into a checked bag and reports city location in real time to any mobile, Apple, Android, or SMS capable devices. For the first time, Trakdot Luggage gives airline passengers unprecedented control at a wallet-friendly price, allowing them to keep track of checked-in luggage anywhere mobile phones work.

January 7, 2013 Read more

Turning smartphones into secure and versatile keys

At this year's CeBIT trade fair in Hannover, researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology SIT in Darmstadt will be demonstrating their ShareKey software, a solution which will make the key app concept even more versatile and secure.

January 3, 2013 Read more

A robot dragonfly that flies like a bird and hovers like an insect (w/video)

Techject's Robot Dragonfly may not be ready just yet, but you can back this project at Indiegogo for just US$99 to get your very own micro UAV.

December 20, 2012 Read more

GravityLight - an alternative to kerosine lamps for developing countries (w/video)

GravityLight is a revolutionary new approach to storing energy and creating illumination. It takes only 3 seconds to lift the weight which powers GravityLight, creating 30 minutes of light on its descent. For free.

December 13, 2012 Read more

Bicycle helmet made from recycled cardboard stronger than plastic helmets (w/video)

Kranium helmets use a unique paper board developed specifically for impact absorption, called Dual Density Honey Comb Board or D2.

December 11, 2012 Read more

Device helps children with disabilities access tablets (w/video)

Researchers at Georgia Tech are trying to open the world of tablets to children whose limited mobility makes it difficult for them to perform the common pinch and swipe gestures required to control the devices.

December 11, 2012 Read more

A smartphone imaging tool for secret agents - and the rest of us

Caltech engineers make tiny, low-cost, terahertz imager chip.

December 10, 2012 Read more

Head-mounted device manipulates reality

A virtual reality-like device mixes real life with make believe.

December 7, 2012 Read more

The O-Pal Oxygenator pimps your coffee or wine by injecting nanobubbles (w/video)

The world's smallest oxygen machine, the O-Pal Personal Beverage Oxygenator, is a handheld appliance that extracts oxygen from the air and injects it into beverages to improve flavor.

December 6, 2012 Read more

Smartphones become mini medical labs

Imagine your smartphone becoming a mobile medical laboratory that records and sends data for a range of research. That will soon be a reality thanks to the expertise and impatience of a University of Sydney PhD candidate.

December 5, 2012 Read more

Breakthrough in augmented reality contact lens (w/video)

Researchers announced efforts to embed a spherical LCD display into contact lenses for use in medical and cosmetic applications. Unlike LED-based contact lens displays, which are limited to a few small pixels, this innovative LCD-based technology uses the entire display surface.

December 5, 2012 Read more

Smartphones might soon develop emotional intelligence

If you think having your phone identify the nearest bus stop is cool, wait until it identifies your mood. New research by a team of engineers at the University of Rochester may soon make that possible.

December 4, 2012 Read more

Mobile phone introduced in Japan will monitor skin condition

A mobile phone that monitors the user's skin condition, checking for blemishes and colour, was unveiled in beauty-conscious Japan on Thursday.

November 29, 2012 Read more