Samsung makes the curved-display Galaxy Round official
October 8, 2013
Apparently some big companies have decided that
curved displays are the next big thing. Just a few days after LG told us
about its upcoming flexible displays, Samsung has done one better by announcing its first phone with a flexible display, the Galaxy Round. Read More
Mitsubishi teases a trio of hybrid and green concepts for Tokyo
By C.C. Weiss
October 8, 2013
We didn't hear a peep from Mitsubishi at the recent Frankfurt Motor Show,
but the company plans a louder, bolder presence at the upcoming Tokyo
Motor Show and has already announced a series of three green SUV
concepts that it will reveal there. Read More
Wanna drink some moon dust? Well, if
it's not too late, you still may have the chance. Late last month,
Delaware-based brewer Dogfish Head began serving up a limited-run
Oktoberfest beer made from the stuff. Read More 
Back in February, Archos announced three new Platinum tablets
that appeared to offer top-shelf specs for wallet-friendly price tags.
Sadly, only the two smaller models enjoyed a brief limited release in
mostly Middle East regions, until now. The French portable consumer tech
manufacturer has spruced up the Elements devices and issued a direct
challenge to top-brand tablet makers like Apple and Samsung with the
launch of the new Platinum Series tablets. The 116 Platinum of old has
been swapped for a 10.1-inch device, which joins a 9.7-inch Retina rival
and an 8-inch model. The three Android slates each feature a HD
touchscreen, a quad-core processor, powerful graphics, and dual-band
Wi-Fi. Read More
What does making bread and brewing espresso have
in common? Not long ago, both were involved, messy jobs best left to the
experts that can now be done at home by anyone who can pour ingredients
and press a button. PicoBrew LLC of Seattle wants to do the same with
beer, with the PicoBrew Zymatic – a countertop brewery that is claimed
by the developers to be as automatic as a breadmaker. Read More
Ricoh Imaging America has taken the wraps off a
new Pentax K Series flagship camera that's been described by Executive
VP Jim Malcolm as the most complete and capable APS-C offering in the
history of the company. The K-3 high-end 24 MP enthusiast DSLR features a
brand new sensor, the latest image processor and a sensor shift image
stabilization system that's been persuaded to impersonate a low pass
filter. Read More
New polymer spontaneously self-heals at room temperature
October 8, 2013
A team of scientists at the CIDETEC Centre for
Electrochemical Technologies have successfully created the first
self-healing polymer that can heal by itself at room temperature,
without the need for external catalysts. The material could be used as
an industrial adhesive or to replace similar compounds in cars, houses
and electrical components to make them more fault-tolerant. Read More
Among the behavioral symptoms of Alzheimer's, one
of the most prominent is a change in the "temporal structure of
activities" – in other words, the amount of time that it takes the
patient to do things. With that in mind, German scientists have
developed a new early detection method that involves attaching
accelerometers to patients, in order to assess their movements. Read More
E-bikes may be among the techiest of modern
bicycles, but they tend to have big, pudgy designs that look more
outdated than cutting edge. Large battery packs, bulging hub motors and
wires running to and fro have a way of making bikes look big, bulky and
busy. Bicycle manufacturers and designers are starting to get hip to the
idea that e-bikes should look as clean and high-tech as they ride,
integrating electrical components in more seamless ways. The latest is a
design from Swiss design firm Concept Cycle. Read More
For skiers and snowboarders, nothing can ruin a
good day on the hill faster than an equipment malfunction. Enter the
CL!CK Carabiner, a handy tool designed for winter sport enthusiasts to
fix binding issues without having to go back to the lodge, or even
worse, stop riding completely if out in the back country. Read More
Say you're a former Apple engineer and VP. Now
say you leave the company, but you just can't shake your hankerin' to
take clunky products, simplify them, and make them consumer-friendly.
What do you do? Well, if you're Tony Fadell, then you found your own
company that gives boring and complicated home sensors an Apple-like
makeover. After finding success with its Nest thermostat, Fadell's Nest Labs is now expanding into the realm of smoke alarms. Read More
The last 12 meter (40 ft) antenna has arrived at
the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), pushing the
project closer to its full operational potential. The final antenna was
supplied by the European side of the venture, and completes the 66 dish
array stretching across the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama
Desert. The telescope, which was inaugurated in March 2013, has already made a number of significant discoveries despite its incomplete nature. Read More
Thinking big is no challenge for architects
Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger; they've created a 3D
printed room using algorithms to design its intricate cathedral-like
interior. Assembled out of 64 massive sandstone-like parts printed out
with a huge 3D printer, the room contains 260 million surfaces printed
at a resolution of a tenth of a millimeter. The 11 ton room took a month
to print but only a day to assemble. The revolutionary fabrication
methods the duo used to print the room will, they believe, open the door
to printing architecture, freeing architects to create new unimaginable
buildings and also restore old ones. Read More
Rumors of a new 11-inch Chromebook have been
building for months now, and the device has finally broken cover today
with HP announcing the Chromebook 11. The notebook has the same
11.6-inch screen size as the popular Samsung model, but includes a
number of new features such as micro-USB charging and a sleek new
design. Read More
Nobel Prize in Physics won by Higgs boson theorists
By Brian Dodson
October 8, 2013
Following a last-minute delay, physicists
Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were today jointly awarded the 2013
Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent formulation of the Higgs
mechanism, which supplies fundamental particles with mass. Their theory
was recently validated by the discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Read More
BayCycle bike kit puts commuters on the water
October 8, 2013
The BayCycle Project is fast gathering attention
for its crowd-funding campaign to bring a fully-fledged water-bike to
the masses. BayCycle has released a number of eye-catching videos,
including one of project founder Judah Schiller crossing San Francisco
Bay on one (which is apparently a first). The project appears to be
using off-the-shelf kits from Italian outfit SBK-KIT, whose Shuttle Bike we first featured back in 2005. Read More
Many vehicles claim to be "all terrain," but few
of them can match the all-out, rove-over-anything capabilities of ARGO's
line of 6x6s and 8x8s. The latest member of the amphibious family is
the 8x8 XTI, a vehicle designed to reach the most remote worksites on
Earth. Read More
Under the Microscope: iPhone 5s vs. Samsung Galaxy S4
October 7, 2013
Comparing the iPhone 5s to the Galaxy S4
isn't really all that different from comparing the iPhone 5 to the
Galaxy S4. But the 5s does offer a few key upgrades over its
predecessor, so we thought it was worth busting out the microscope to
revisit Apple's and Samsung's flagships. How do the 5s' new fingerprint
sensor, A7 chip, and improved camera stack up next to the GS4? Join
Gizmag, as we go hands-on, to pit the iPhone 5s against the Galaxy S4.
Read More
The Atacama desert in Chile is so dry that parts
of it are utterly devoid of life down to bacteria. That and its sandy,
rock-strewn terrain makes it so similar to Mars that it's a perfect spot
for ESA to trial its Sample Acquisition Field Experiment with a Rover
(SAFER), which will this week carry out tests related to navigation,
remote control and the use of scientific instruments. The agency’s goal
is the latest in a series of tests
to develop technologies and gain practical experience in anticipation
of ESA’s launch of the ExoMars rover to the Red Planet in 2018. Read More
Fans of Doctor Who will be very familiar
with the stupefied phrase uttered by all new visitors to his Tardis:
"It's...bigger...on the inside." As it turns out, this apparently
irrational idea may have something to contribute to our understanding of
the universe. A team of cosmologists in Finland and Poland propose that
the observed acceleration of the expansion of the universe, usually
explained by dark energy or modified laws of gravity, may actually be
the result of regions of spacetime that are larger on the inside than
they appear from the outside. The researchers have dubbed these "Tardis
regions." Read More
Say you're a former Apple engineer and VP. Now
say you leave the company, but you just can't shake your hankerin' to
take clunky products, simplify them, and make them consumer-friendly.
What do you do? Well, if you're Tony Fadell, then you found your own
company that gives boring and complicated home sensors an Apple-like
makeover. After finding success with its Nest thermostat, Fadell's Nest Labs is now expanding into the realm of smoke alarms. Read More
The last 12 meter (40 ft) antenna has arrived at
the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), pushing the
project closer to its full operational potential. The final antenna was
supplied by the European side of the venture, and completes the 66 dish
array stretching across the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile's Atacama
Desert. The telescope, which was inaugurated in March 2013, has already made a number of significant discoveries despite its incomplete nature. Read More
Thinking big is no challenge for architects
Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger; they've created a 3D
printed room using algorithms to design its intricate cathedral-like
interior. Assembled out of 64 massive sandstone-like parts printed out
with a huge 3D printer, the room contains 260 million surfaces printed
at a resolution of a tenth of a millimeter. The 11 ton room took a month
to print but only a day to assemble. The revolutionary fabrication
methods the duo used to print the room will, they believe, open the door
to printing architecture, freeing architects to create new unimaginable
buildings and also restore old ones. Read More
Rumors of a new 11-inch Chromebook have been
building for months now, and the device has finally broken cover today
with HP announcing the Chromebook 11. The notebook has the same
11.6-inch screen size as the popular Samsung model, but includes a
number of new features such as micro-USB charging and a sleek new
design. Read More
Nobel Prize in Physics won by Higgs boson theorists
By Brian Dodson
October 8, 2013
Following a last-minute delay, physicists
Francois Englert and Peter Higgs were today jointly awarded the 2013
Nobel Prize in Physics for their independent formulation of the Higgs
mechanism, which supplies fundamental particles with mass. Their theory
was recently validated by the discovery of a Higgs boson at CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Read More
BayCycle bike kit puts commuters on the water
October 8, 2013
The BayCycle Project is fast gathering attention
for its crowd-funding campaign to bring a fully-fledged water-bike to
the masses. BayCycle has released a number of eye-catching videos,
including one of project founder Judah Schiller crossing San Francisco
Bay on one (which is apparently a first). The project appears to be
using off-the-shelf kits from Italian outfit SBK-KIT, whose Shuttle Bike we first featured back in 2005. Read More
Many vehicles claim to be "all terrain," but few
of them can match the all-out, rove-over-anything capabilities of ARGO's
line of 6x6s and 8x8s. The latest member of the amphibious family is
the 8x8 XTI, a vehicle designed to reach the most remote worksites on
Earth. Read More
Under the Microscope: iPhone 5s vs. Samsung Galaxy S4
October 7, 2013
Comparing the iPhone 5s to the Galaxy S4
isn't really all that different from comparing the iPhone 5 to the
Galaxy S4. But the 5s does offer a few key upgrades over its
predecessor, so we thought it was worth busting out the microscope to
revisit Apple's and Samsung's flagships. How do the 5s' new fingerprint
sensor, A7 chip, and improved camera stack up next to the GS4? Join
Gizmag, as we go hands-on, to pit the iPhone 5s against the Galaxy S4.
Read More
The Atacama desert in Chile is so dry that parts
of it are utterly devoid of life down to bacteria. That and its sandy,
rock-strewn terrain makes it so similar to Mars that it's a perfect spot
for ESA to trial its Sample Acquisition Field Experiment with a Rover
(SAFER), which will this week carry out tests related to navigation,
remote control and the use of scientific instruments. The agency’s goal
is the latest in a series of tests
to develop technologies and gain practical experience in anticipation
of ESA’s launch of the ExoMars rover to the Red Planet in 2018. Read More
Fans of Doctor Who will be very familiar
with the stupefied phrase uttered by all new visitors to his Tardis:
"It's...bigger...on the inside." As it turns out, this apparently
irrational idea may have something to contribute to our understanding of
the universe. A team of cosmologists in Finland and Poland propose that
the observed acceleration of the expansion of the universe, usually
explained by dark energy or modified laws of gravity, may actually be
the result of regions of spacetime that are larger on the inside than
they appear from the outside. The researchers have dubbed these "Tardis
regions." Read More
Denmark's Bang & Olufsen (B&O) has
revealed that it's the first high-end speaker manufacturer to
incorporate technology based on the recent Wireless Speaker and Audio
Association (WiSA) open standard. Instead of using Bluetooth or Wi-Fi in
the heavily-populated 2.4 GHz frequency band, the forthcoming speakers
will be capable of wirelessly receiving audiophile-pleasing, high
definition, uncompressed audio over the U-NII radio frequency spectrum.
Read More
Chinese auto manufacturer Chery
Motors is bringing back the Moke. The new version designed by Michael
Young retains many of the original design features in addition to
updated mechanics and safety provisions. Read More 
Fujifilm has just announced the
latest in its line of INSTAX instant film cameras, the Mini 90 Neo
Classic. Like some of its predecessors,
it produces business card-sized prints that are ready moments after the
shot has been taken. It also has a unique retro look, however, along
with a couple of other new features. Read More 
The Walking Dead and
Hyundai go together like ... well, like a TV show and one of its main
advertisers. And while the always-clean Hyundai Tucson that figures
prominently in the show might not be ideal for fighting zombies, the
automaker is about to unveil a one-off car that could be – the Santa Fe
Zombie Survival Machine. Read More 
A lot of people like listening to music while
cycling, but don't want to unsafely shut themselves off from traffic
noise by wearing headphones. There are already a few devices that address the issue, but Scosche recently introduced its own unique alternative – it's called the BoomBottle,
and it's a rugged Bluetooth stereo speaker designed to be carried in a
bike's water bottle cage. After meeting some company reps at Interbike 2013, I got the chance to try out one of the funny little gadgets for myself. Read More
As modern cities grow more densely populated and
available living space shrinks correspondingly, ensuring that space is
maximized to its full potential is essential. One proposal for making
the most of the space we have comes via Thailand-based company
Apostrophe's Living in the City housing unit. Read More
The internet has been positively buzzing with all
things Valve over the last week. The PC gaming company has opted for a
slow trickle of information, and now it has revealed the specifications
for its prototype Steam Machine PC that will be sent to 300 lucky beta
testers. It has gone with some moderately high-end specifications,
contrary to original reports of these machines coming with mid-range
specs. Read More
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for
2013 was awarded jointly today to James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman
and Thomas C. Südhof "for their discoveries of machinery regulating
vesicle traffic, a major transport system in our cells." Read More
LG announces mass production of flexible OLED phone displays
October 7, 2013
LG today announced that it is to start mass
producing flexible OLED display panels for smartphones. LG hopes that
the move will give it a head start in the market. The company says that
its technology uses plastic substrates rather than glass, and claims
that a protective film on the back of the display makes it "unbreakable"
as well as bendable. Read More
Yep, we've all been there – you leave your home
in plenty of time to drive to an event, but end up being late because
you spend such a long time looking for parking once you get there. Well,
Israeli entrepreneur Yaron Aizenbud has created something that could
make such parking-spot-searches considerably shorter. It's called
Anagog, and it's a smartphone-based system that shows users where the
open spots are, or even where spots are soon to be open. And unlike some other proposed systems, it doesn't require any hardware to be installed in the existing infrastructure. Read More
New US$100-bill to enter circulation, tackle counterfeiting
October 7, 2013
The Federal Reserve of the United States will
begin circulating a new $100 bill on Tuesday. The redesigned bank note,
which has been delayed by more than 2 and a half years, includes a
number of measures designed to make it more difficult to counterfeit,
including a 3D security ribbon and a new "bell in the inkwell." Read More
Designer Elizabeth Bigger's Lüme
Collection sees simple black garments get a dose of 21st century tech by
virtue of embedded LEDs that can be illuminated in patterns controlled
from a smartphone. Read More 
Boasting the largest print envelope available for less than US$5,000, the LulzBot TAZ
is a RepRap-style 3D printer that presents an open, no-frills design.
The TAZ 1.0 is LulzBot’s fourth generation printer, and it uses the
company’s sixth generation hot-end (the nozzle and extrusion mechanism
for 3D printing). This printer uses an open-source format for both its
software and hardware, also known as Libre Hardware. Read More
Vault Wallet offers a new home for your credit cards
By Dave Parrack
October 6, 2013
Leather or nylon wallets are so passe, at least
according to Jeremiah Skow, creator of the Vault Wallet, a solid credit
card sleeve made from stainless steel. The steel gives the Vault Wallet
several advantages over the competition. It's strong, thin, able to
block RFID sniffing, and potentially long-lasting. Read More
Appliance makers have been putting together
"Homes of Tomorrow" ever since they realized that electricity was more
than a passing fad. Over the decades, Frigidaire, Westinghouse, General
Electric and many others have pulled out the crystal ball to gaze into
our domestic future. Now GE is jumping forward to the year 2025 to show
us what home life will be like in the middle of the next decade. Read More
Physicists have long thought that the
singularities associated with gravity (like the inside of a black hole)
should vanish in a quantum theory of gravity. It now appears that this
may indeed be the case. Researchers in Uruguay and Louisiana have just
published a description of a quantum black hole using loop quantum
gravity in which the predictions of physics-ending singularities vanish,
and are replaced by bridges to another universe. Read More
Whether it's a bursting water balloon or the
flapping wings of a bird, super slow-motion video can reveal the
incredible nature of seemingly mundane events. But this footage doesn't
come cheap. With typical set-ups costing in excess of US$30,000, its use
is often limited to those with mega-budgets. The Edgertronic high speed
video camera aims to to change that, by offering pro specs with a
(relatively) affordable price-tag. Read More
Toyota's i-Road
three-wheeler concept is set to make it off the drawing board and onto
the road. Toyota has announced that a limited production run of the
fully enclosed, tilting EV will begin shortly, with initial units being
transferred to Toyota's Ha:mo urban transport system trials in Toyota
City. Read More
Mercedes serves up van campers in three flavors
By C.C. Weiss
October 5, 2013
Mercedes-Benz may not have as timeless a name in van camping as Volkswagen,
but it does offer several popular platforms for van camper conversions.
In fact, it claims that its Sprinter van is the number one base vehicle
for luxury campers. The German manufacturer recently showcased three
camper conversions of its own using both the Sprinter and Viano
platforms. Read More
With all the fuss over the recent influx of do-everything smartwatches,
you would think that a new wristwatch that simply displays the time on
an analog face wouldn't cause much of a stir. However, when that watch
is described as "atomic" and is claimed to be "the world's most accurate
wristwatch," people perk up and take notice. Kauai-based Bathys Hawaii
Watch Company has just revealed its first prototype of such a watch,
known as the Cesium 133. Read More
In an age when an increasing number of seniors
live by themselves, dogs often provide strong emotional support to those
people. Such a strong bond could also be useful for monitoring both the
dog’s and its owner’s well-being, according to new research conducted
by scientists at Newcastle University. They've developed a sensor to
monitor the dog’s movements at home and out of the house. Read More
Certain brands command a following
and a respect due to a long and illustrious history and/or consumer
confidence in the quality of the products. Audi is one such company, so
owning an Audi convertible is something many people can only dream of.
That dream may become reality thanks to the Mini Runner, an Audi
convertible that won't break the bank. Read More Nikon updates its full-frame DSLR line-up with the D610
By Simon Crisp
October 9, 2013
Nikon has updated its entry-level full-frame
camera with the introduction of the D610. Sharing a great deal with its
predecessor, the D600,
the new camera is a rather modest update. The main changes include an
updated shutter mechanism, a new quiet continuous shutter mode, and an
increased continuous shooting speed which now reaches 6 frames per
second. Read More
Disney tech lets users feel 3D objects on flat screens
By Ben Coxworth
October 9, 2013
Our smartphones and tablets may be able to show
us what things look and sound like, but with their flat glass screens,
there's no way that they could indicate what something feels
like ... right? Actually, they may soon be able to do that, too.
Researchers at Disney Research, Pittsburgh have developed a system that
lets users' fingertips feel a simulated bump through a flat screen, that
corresponds to a bump in the displayed image. Read More
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to
Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel for the development of
multi-scale computer models of chemical reactions. Such computational
chemical models are now the foundation for protein, enzyme, and
pharmaceutical research, and combine a classical description of the
motion and structure of large molecules with a quantum description of
the regions within the molecule where a reaction takes place. Read More
Audio speakers are showing up in a variety of
unusual forms these days, from the incredibly tiny to the eye-catchingly
bizarre, but a research group at Harvard University may have trumped
them all with a new one that's as clear as glass. Scientists at the
college's Engineering and Applied Sciences branch recently built a
flexible speaker out of ionic gel that is almost invisible to the naked
eye and can produce high-quality sound ranging across the full audible
spectrum. In doing so, they also provided a proof of concept for
electronics that can transfer electric signals in a similar manner to
the human nervous system. Read More
Researchers at Case Western Reserve
University (CWRU) have been selected by ARPA-E, the US government's
Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, to carry out a one year
project aimed at developing a low cost method to obtain titanium metal
from its ore. It is thought that the process could lower the cost of the
metal by up to 60 percent. Read More 
Over the past few years, jellyfish populations
along South Korea's coastline have risen to the point where they are
adversely affecting the fish populations and marine industries in the
area, costing the country over 3 billion won (about US$2.8 million) each
year. A team led by Associate Professor Hyun Myung of the Korea
Advanced Institute of Science and Technology however may have a solution
with the JEROS (Jellyfish Elimination RObotic Swarm), a series of
autonomous robots that work together to track down jellyfish in the
ocean and grind them into a fine pulp. Read More
A team of engineers at UCLA has
created a 3D-printed attachment that enables smartphone cameras to image
particles as small as 90 nanometers. This marks the first time that
single nanoparticles and viruses have been detected using a
cellphone-based imaging system. Read More 
Motion-tracking systems like Wii and Kinect have
certainly changed the way we play video games – among other things – but
some people still complain that there's too much of a lag between
real-world player movements and the corresponding in-game movements of
the characters. The creators of the experimental Lumitrack system,
however, claim that it has much less lag time than existing systems ...
plus it's highly accurate and should be cheap to commercialize. Read More
Far be it for we at Gizmag to
inadvertently reveal the secret identity of a crime-fighting superhero,
but let's just say that if Poland had its own version of the Dark
Knight, then he'd probably live in this house. Featuring a subterranean
car tunnel that runs under the garden and directly into the home, the
Autofamily House bears more than a little resemblance to a suburban
version of Batman's Batcave. Read More
We typically see photovoltaic panels
up on roofs, as they're broad, open surfaces that receive a lot of
sunlight. You know what else spends a lot of time in the scorching sun,
though? Sidewalks. With that in mind, a team at Washington DC's The
George Washington University has created what is claimed to be "the
first walkable solar-paneled pathway in the world." Read More
Nike has teamed up with Taiwan-based
design and architectural company Miniwiz to produce a new concept
retail store, dubbed X158 Hyper Nature. Based in Shanghai, China, the
store's interior is constructed using building materials recycled from
DVDs, water bottles and beverage cans. Read More
Delft University's Nuon Solar Team has won the
Challenger class of the World Solar Challenge. Its solar-powered Nuna 7
vehicle arrived in Adelaide at 10:03 a.m. on the morning of the fifth
day of the event, having led from the front for the full 3,021 km from
Darwin, crossing Australia from north coast to south in a total of a
little over 33 hours. That puts its average speed at an impressive 91
km/h (57 mph). Read More
Far be it for we at Gizmag to
inadvertently reveal the secret identity of a crime-fighting superhero,
but let's just say that if Poland had its own version of the Dark
Knight, then he'd probably live in this house. Featuring a subterranean
car tunnel that runs under the garden and directly into the home, the
Autofamily House bears more than a little resemblance to a suburban
version of Batman's Batcave. Read More
Those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere may
be mourning the end of summer, and with it the diminishing prospects of
enjoying much warmth until next year. However, the Invisible Garden
House, by Danish designer Simon Hjermind Jensen, may offer an
opportunity to receive a regular dose of Vitamin D, even well into the
colder seasons. Read More
While scouring the floors of Eurogamer Expo the
other week, Gizmag couldn't pass up an opportunity to get hands-on with a
PlayStation 4 running a demo of Assassin's Creed 4, which, despite being the fifth Assassin's Creed sequel (don't ask), turned out to be one of the most intriguing games on show at the event. No, really. Read More
When Google announced a new batch of
Haswell-based Chromebooks at last month's Intel Developer Forum in San
Francisco, HP was first off the mark with its Chromebook14. This was followed by the colorful Chromebook11
a few days ago, and now Acer has joined the Haswell party with the
launch of its third generation Chromebook. The thin and light C720
promises faster performance and longer battery life than previous models
and sports a daylight-friendly anti-glare screen. Read More
The track-inspired roadster market continues to grow. In the past few months, we've seen the all-new VŪHL 05, the Caterham AeroSeven,
and now, the Zenos E10. Britain's Zenos Cars launched last month with
plans to introduce the E10 next year. Based on initial sketches, its
first car will be a quick, lightweight roadster that combines classic
and modern styling cues. Read More
We typically see photovoltaic panels
up on roofs, as they're broad, open surfaces that receive a lot of
sunlight. You know what else spends a lot of time in the scorching sun,
though? Sidewalks. With that in mind, a team at Washington DC's The
George Washington University has created what is claimed to be "the
first walkable solar-paneled pathway in the world." Read More
Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB)
have found that graphene retains its remarkable electrical conductive
properties even when it is in close contact with materials like glass
and silicon. It could be a key discovery for the development of better
thin-film solar cells. Read More
If you're shopping for clothes online, there are already a number of services
you can use to make sure that the garment you're ordering will fit
properly. If you're shopping for glasses, however, things get a bit
trickier. Additionally, it's important to know whether or not the
glasses will look good on you, even if they do fit. That's why
Australia's CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation) has developed the Smart Vision system. Read More
Nike has teamed up with Taiwan-based
design and architectural company Miniwiz to produce a new concept
retail store, dubbed X158 Hyper Nature. Based in Shanghai, China, the
store's interior is constructed using building materials recycled from
DVDs, water bottles and beverage cans. Read More 
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