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RoboKind of Dallas, Texas has started a Kickstarter campaign to raise capital for the further development of its Zeno R25 interactive humanoid robot. The robot is designed to interact with humans in an intuitive way by detecting and mimicking emotions.

Denmark-based architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) recently completed work on the new Danish National Maritime Museum. The museum is built into a large dry dock, and located adjacent to the historical Kronborg castle, as immortalized in Shakespeare's Hamlet.

This year, James Dyson has 20 finalists from which to select the 2013 James Dyson Award winner. And like previous years, it looks like being no easy task. Here are the entries still in the running for the first place prize that has been upped to £30,000 (US$48,500) for 2013.

"What would the first pedal cycle have looked like if its 19th-century pioneers had enjoyed access to today's advanced materials?" BASF seeks to answer that question with the Concept 1865 bicycle, which updates a 19th century bicycle design with a near full-plastic build and electric motor.

After successfully putting his NASA design skills to work on the Cricket Trailer, Garrett Finney has started on an even smaller field shelter. The new Firefly is designed to split the difference between gear hauler and camper.

A 110-core CPU chip based on a new architecture has been developed and committed to silicon by MIT researchers. Instead of bringing data to a core that needs it, the program on the core is moved to a core that can directly access the data, thereby reducing on-chip traffic more than tenfold.

San Francisco-based artificial intelligence startup Vicarious has announced that it has developed software algorithms which can solve CAPTCHAs up to 90 percent of the time. The high success rate renders the current standard of text-based CAPTCHAs ineffective, the company claims.

A strong opening act gets your audience's attention. An even better second act gives them confidence that they're watching a great show. But what if your third act retreads the high points, without breaking new ground? Join Gizmag, as we review the iterative third act in the Batman: Arkham series.

Most bracelets aren't likely to alter your temperature too much either way, but the Wristify isn't most bracelets. Developed by four MIT engineering students, the Wristify works on the principle that heating or cooling the skin on one part of the body can make the entire body feel warmer or colder.

If you already own an iPad mini, is it worth upgrading to the new model with Retina Display? Or if you're thinking about buying your first iPad mini, is it worth saving a few bucks on last year's model? Join Gizmag, as we put the two into our magical comparison machine, and see what happens.

Fender has released two dreadnought acoustics with a Voyage-Air hinge mechanism that allows the instruments to fold in half for portability.

BASF is making a push to get out in front of the world and show what its materials can really do. In one of its latest projects, the German company updated a 1953 BMW Isetta "bubble car" with some of its materials and coatings, along with a unique home entertainment system.