Search results for

The world’s largest working hydro-electric wave energy device has been officially launched in Scotland. Known as ‘Oyster’, the device is, at present, the world’s only hydro-electric wave energy device producing power.

Cambridge University PhD student Qi Pan has designed software that creates textured 3D models of an object in slightly more than a minute using a stationary camera.

Sanyo has launched the egg-shaped eneloop kairo hand-warmers in time for winter. The single-sided and double-sided models fit easily into a handbag or pocket and have rechargeable batteries and make gloves almost obsolete.

Each year as part of the Design Los Angeles Conference held at the LA Auto Show, creative types from major car companies get to stare into their crystal balls and let their imaginations run wild in designing the car of the future.

Mimo Monitors has released the iMo monitor, a 7" LCD screen with touchscreen technology.

Versatile humanoid robot Nao can see (via two cameras), speak, react to touch, surf the web using WiFi, and interact with other Naos.

An Italian doctor has been getting dramatic results with a new type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, which affects up to 2.5 million people worldwide.

car2go, the innovative car sharing program first seen in Ulm, Germany, has launched in Austin, Texas, where a pilot will initially see 200 vehicles made available 24/7 within the city to a select group of city employees and their relatives.

Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway officially opened Statkraft's osmotic power plant prototype on 24th November

Olive, renowned maker of audiophile products has served up another addition to its already impressive line of music servers with the Olive 4 HD, which the company says can play back your music at 250 times the resolution of CDs!

Two new devices harnessing the disinfecting capabilities of plasma are being developed – one to disinfect healthy skin in hospitals and public spaces where bacteria can pose a lethal threat; and another to treat infested chronic wounds.

The second in our series of interviews with Michael Bennet-Levy looks at the Steuart’s Patent vacuum tank regulator – a clock produced in 1923 that its makers, J & D Meek, claimed was accurate to “better than a second a year.”