From Austin to St. Paul: The American Solar Challenge

When the sun is at its peak this summer, more than 20 teams will compete in the American Solar Challenge. The event is a competition to design, build, and drive solar-powered cars in a cross-country time/distance…

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Play Music Like Never Before with This Glove

Grammy Award-winning musician Imogen Heap, who works largely in electronic sounds, has created electronic gloves that allow musicians to interact with electronic equipment via hand gestures. Mi.Mu gloves can sense the position of a musician’s…

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This Door Handle is Responsible for Increasing Hand Sanitizing Rates from 22% to 77%

PullClean is a new product from British design studio Agency of Design and is essentially a door handle that dispenses hand sanitizer. The product is attempting to reduce the number of people contracting illnesses in…

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New Museum Will Look Like a Giant Salad Bowl

Giant Mirrored “Salad Bowl” is a competition-winning design of art depot for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (MBVB) in Rotterdam. Dutch design firm MVRDV won the collection building competition after proposing this giant mirrored public art…

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See What’s Hiding in the Dark with Night Vision Contact Lenses

It sounds like something out of a Bond flick but night vision lenses may not be too far away. Electrical and computer engineers at the University of Michigan are working on the technology using graphene…

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This Skyscraper Shrinks Right Before Your Eyes

Building demolition is typically executed through wrecking balls, explosives and jackhammers. All these processes are very noisy, disruptive and messy, producing a lot of dust and not a lot of building material can be salvaged.…

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Are You a Leader? These 7 Books Are Essential To Success.

Max Bazerman, author of “Judgement in Managerial Decision Making” and business psychology professor at Harvard Business School recently revealed 7 books he considers essential to the success of a great leader. 1. “Thinking, Fast and…

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This Four-Legged Robot Will Chase You Down…

In 2013, DARPA released a video of a four-legged robot resembling a cheetah that had the ability to “chase and evade” to the tune of 30 mph! Many people were freaked out watching the robot…

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The Office That Actually Makes Employees Want to Come to Work

The office of Selgas Cano, an architecture firm based in Madrid, Spain, continues to be one of the most looked at buildings on the web recently and with good reason. The seven architects who work…

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Skysat-1 Satellite, about the Size of a Mini-Fridge, Captures First HD Video of Earth

Satellites today are capable of taking imagery better than a meter in resolution, but they weigh thousands of kilograms. San Francisco firm Skybox Imaging has released the first footage from a revolutionary satellite. SkySat-1 is…

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