The smart grids are coming, and this elegantly designed box will be there to show you what an energy hog you've become. The box is called Vision, and it's made by Tendril, a hot startup that's developing its Tendril Residential Energy Management Ecosystem (TREE), a smart grid setup that ...

"Masked in Flight" is a project by Iceland's Sruli Recht that studies what kind of masks air travelers might wear — travelers that wanted to look like serial killers and creepy stormtroopers, that is. Would you feel comfortable on a plane with the person next to you wearing something ...

Artificial body parts are here today, but they still have a long way to go before they can rival our original equipment. As the movie Repo Men reminds us, total body replacement is on the way, but in the meantime, scientists and technologists are taking small steps toward the ...

Oh boy, I remember calculator watches . With all the fancy handheld gadgetry today, there's really no reason for them, though even back in their heyday they didn't really set the world on fire.

The only thing better than claiming a world record is utterly smashing it, and that's exactly what the Large Hadron Collider did this morning in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC previously managed to reach an energy of 1.18 TeV .

We may not get the name — "Playing By Heart" — but we're definitely down with the concept. Zhang Shouze's svelte laptop folds into a briefcase when you're in transit, and unpacks into a laptop when you need to use it

No, this gameboy doesn't actually play games.

It is always nice to see where developers are taking the possibilities inherent in the iPhone , even if the execution isn't always letter perfect. Making its debut on the iPhone app store is the new tool from Eagle Inc. called Talk Writer designed to assist non-English speakers communicate ...

Look, recycling isn't that hard, guys.

Good news for Xbox 360 owners : those USB ports on the front of your console won't just be for show anymore. I mean, sure, you can do stuff such as charging your controllers with them or plugging in a wireless adapter, but you mysteriously can't do what a ...