Crowdsource

Arizona-based crowd-source automotive firm Local Motors brought its new Racer motorcycle to this year's Overland Expo show. The stylish motorcycle blends classic and custom design elements to "define a new class of cruiser."

A picture is worth a thousand words, but not if the picture is a blurry, pixelated mess. That’s what SpaceX has realized as it releases the raw footage to the public in hopes of crowdsourcing the restoration effort.

Air conditioners are a blessing in a hot climate, but with their thermostat minds they’re almost like sticking a vacuum cleaner in your wallet. To help remedy this, GE and Quirky have launched the Aros smart air conditioner; the first major connected appliance of the partnership.

Results from the crowdsourced game and experiment, EteRNA, which combines RNA folding puzzles with laboratory synthesis, show that human gamers are able to develop better models of RNA folding than previous computer algorithms. The game community also created novel folding rules.