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Rice University engineering students Tyler Wiest, Carlos Armada, Julian Castro and David Morilla with their PediPower prototypes We've seen Pavegen's energy-harvesting tiles turning up in a variety of places to harvest some of the kinetic energy generated while walking or running over them.

Billed as the world's first flatpack truck, OX can be assembled by three people in under 12 hours once it reaches its destination OX is a lightweight, high-payload truck invented by toymaker, adventurer, and philanthropist Sir Torquil Norman with the aim of providing a simple, robust and cost-effective work-horse in developing nations.

Slovenia-based designer and engineer Elvis HaliloviA is a pinhole photography enthusiast who felt there was a relative absence of appealing durable pinhole cameras on the market, and so set to work creating his own.

The new fabric sucks sweat from one side to the other where it drains away, as demonstrated here using smurf sweat Unsightly underarm sweat patches could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new fabric developed at the University of California, Davis.

While there are plenty of important components and accessories that are mounted on a bike's handlebars, the bars themselves are just empty hollow tubes that don't really do anything ... right? Well, that isn't the case with Helios Bars.

Lenovo has revealed that a more powerful version of its Yoga 11 convertible is earmarked for release next month.

When we think of crystals, most of us probably either picture spiky things like snowflakes, or cube-shaped objects like grains of sugar.

Researchers have developed a new type of wearable sensor that could greatly improve the accuracy and practicality of heart monitoring.

You're sitting in the office, but don't you wish you could be playing with your dog or cat using a laser pointer instead? With the Petcube, you'll be able to do both at once.

It may look like the strangest concept vehicle ever, but the new art installation unveiled by Jaguar as part of Clerkenwell Design Week in London is, according to the company, a "vision of Jaguar's future design language." Created by Royal College of Art students in conjunction with Jaguar Advanced Design in Whitley, Coventry, the installation was ... (more)

Washington: An 18-year-old Indian-American girl has invented a super-capacitor device that could potentially charge your cellphone in less than 20 seconds.

Leap Motion, the device built to bring touch-like gesture controls -without a touch screen- will enter into its beta phase soon.

Some four months ago the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft was grounded by the FAA following a number of safety related incidents that had been caused to the battery system.

I have yet to come across the path of someone who loathes all things Lego. Who can resist these precise fitting plastic bricks that get the job done, unraveling the imagination of the masses? Well, on May 10th and May 11th, eighty Danish Lego devotees actually got together and assisted Henrik Ludvigsen in creating history, as Ludvigsen had in mind ... (more)

There might have been plenty of buzz surrounding Google Glass for quite some time already, but it will not hit the market for quite some time down the road, and here we are with something which could very well take off in a big way, too - the CastAR glasses that were developed by team which comprises of former Valve employees, where the CastAR ... (more)

HTC One, the Taiwanese manufacturer's flagship Android smartphone , is certainly one amazing device.

Google showed off an impressive list of 41 new features for Google+ at the I/O conference.

As if the Galaxy S4 didn't spend much time in the limelight any way, these days a "rugged" version of this smartphone is being heavily rumored.

It was reported back in February that the Chinese Army apparently has a whole cyber-wing with the ultimate purpose of launching cyberattacks on the U.S ., specifically targeting government agencies and major companies.

So you think that you have what it takes to be the next legend on the track? Well, your surname might not be Schumacher, and neither do you have the slick skills of a Sebastian Vettel, but you figure out that the lack of natural talent, skill, and pure guts can be compensated by sheer passion alone.