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Coming to London’s Kew Gardens is an installation from sculptor Wolfgang Buttress. The Hive is a light-, sound- and vibration-emitting structure controlled by the activity of bees in an actual beehive on the garden’s grounds.

Netflix has released a step-by-step guide to making socks that detect when the person wearing them has fallen asleep and pauses the currently playing program to prevent them from losing track of their favorite show.

French researchers have designed a sight-based flight stabilization system inspired by a an insect's compound eye that could be used in conjunction with accelerometers to vastly increase the autonomous capabilities of drones by endowing them with more natural flying abilities.

When professional athletes are having their performance analyzed, it's certainly not unheard of for them to wear motion capture suits while training in a lab environment. Indian startup ProjectPOLE is now offering that same feedback to everyday athletes, with its Tracky motion-tracking sportswear.

It's an ongoing problem within sports ... players receive a severe blow to the head, but they don't want to tell anyone so that they can keep playing. While there are already some helmet-mounted devices that detect such impacts, Force Impact Technologies' FITGuard is built into a mouthpiece.

Security-conscious smartphone users may decline apps' requests to "use your current location," but doing so still doesn't mean that those users can't be tracked. According to new research, this is because each phone's sensors have a unique "fingerprint."

Who hasn't grabbed a stick and pretended it was a sword at one point in their lives? Now, with a bit of help from technology, Sabertron swords are helping everyone live out that sword-fighting fantasy, but with some actual score-keeping.

STMicroelectronics has announced a new MEMS-based module that integrates a three-axis magnetometer, a three-axis accelerometer, A/D converters, and control logic on a 2 mm x 2 mm x 1 mm surface mount chip, making it the smallest electronic compass available today.

The Sonik Spring is a Slinky-like digital audio playback device, that could find use in physical therapy.

The CheckLight is a skull cap for athletes that warns when serious impacts have been delivered to the head.

DARPA's “timing & inertial measurement unit” (TIMU) is a self-sufficient navigation system that can aid navigation when GPS is temporarily unavailable.

The Futuro Cube from Princip uses nine RGB lights on each face and built-in sensors to put a new twist on classic game and puzzle challenges.