Inventions
Mr. Woo, the Chinese Robot Farmer Guy, Hits Hard Times [Robots]
Not even wacky Chinese farmers are immune to the unstable economic climate, it seems, as our old friend Mr. Woo was recently forced to sell off some of his robot creations to make some extra scratch. ....... read more
2 days ago
Rain Wipe is Slick Solution For Wet Umbrellas [Ella Ella Ella]
Leave it to the Japanese to come up with an environmentally friendly solution to drying wet umbrellas. The new ?Rain Wipe? from Annon removes rainwater using a squeegee-like device to pull water from ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Firefighters To Find Their Way Out Of Burning Buildings With... Glowing Neon Balls? [Concepts]
Life Pebbles won the grand prize award at the Seoul Design Competition, promising to help firefighters combat the disorientation of a burning by dropping a trail of neon-glowing capsules like Hansel-a ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations [Green Power]
It's one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It's something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
Pedal-Powered Toilet-Paper-Wiper Brings Both Laziness and Exercise to the Bathroom [What]
Well, here's something you don't expect to see in the listing for a house on a real estate website: a toilet equipped with a pedal-powered contraption that drags toilet paper across your filthy bits, ....... read more
Tue,
05 Aug 2008
US Army Selects Top Inventions That Can Take, Or Save, Your Life [Army Gadgets]
IEDs, or Improvised Explosive Devices, are a sad fact of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, so you'll see the influence of these deadly weapons in this list of the US Army's top Inventions for 2007. Every y ....... read more
Sun,
06 Jul 2008