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Scientists have copied the sonar system used by dolphins to locate prey, to create a type of radar that could differentiate between ordinary objects and things like explosive devices.

The US Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF), with the help of the crowdsourcing gurus at Local Motors, has launched ArmyCoCreate.com, a website designed to let soldiers, designers and engineers collaborate on identifying soldier requirements and designing prototypes to address them.

Rhino Shield is reportedly five times more impact-resistant than unprotected Gorilla Glass 2. Its makers recently sent me a testing kit, so I could see first-hand just how tough it is – without endangering my smartphone in the process. Here's how things turned out ...

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.

After announcing that it will mass produce flexible OLED phone displays earlier in the month, LG has now revealed that Korean consumers will be the first to get their hands on its new curved screen smartphone, the G Flex.

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.

Understaffed and overworked nurses and pharmacists in Japan will soon have a helpful friend in Panasonic's HOSPI-R, which went on sale this month. It's an autonomous delivery robot that transports drugs throughout a hospital, giving medical personnel more time to tend to patients' needs.

"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.

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.