Invisible Bike Helmets

Sky found this, and wanted to share it with you all! Invisible bike helmets. Thanks Europe!

Listen to the Higgs

Check it out, you can listen to the Higgs (God Particle).

Disney Researchers Create A Way To Make Geared Figures That Look Amazingly Life-Like

For centuries the creation of geared automata has been sort of a dark art. To design a mechanical device to move like a human or animal was a trick in itself and to build the gears and rods necessary to propel the thing was even trickier. A team of Disney researchers, however, have created a system that will let puppeteers... (Read more!)

Making a robot out of the Kinect

A few years ago I noticed that researchers, programmers, and dorks alike were doing interesting things with the Kinect (a gaming console, for the unfamiliar). One thing they found the Kinect (or, rather, two Kinects working together) can do is look around objects.

Here's an article to look at several projects that have resulted from playing with the Kinect.

Emergency shelters made from paper

Long before sustainability became a buzzword, architect Shigeru Ban had begun his experiments with ecologically-sound building materials such as cardboard tubes and paper. His remarkable structures are often intended as temporary housing, designed to help the dispossessed in disaster-struck nations such as Haiti, Rwanda or Japan. Yet equally often the buildings remain a beloved part of the landscape long after they have served their intended purpose. (Watch!)

Sustainable, nature-inspired architecture

Master architects share their vision for buildings that inflate, float, twist and glitter, while artfully addressing the challenges faced by their residents, their cities and the planet.

Vijay Kumar: Robots that fly ... and cooperate

In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.

Alfredo Moser: Bottle light inventor proud to be poor

Alfredo Moser's invention is lighting up the world. In 2002, the Brazilian mechanic had a light-bulb moment and came up with a way of illuminating his house during the day without electricity - using nothing more than plastic bottles filled with water and a tiny bit of bleach.

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"Wouldn't it be cool if...?"

Engineering is useful, fun, really cool, makes an impact, and actually everyone can do it.

Creativity and Imagination

Need a burst of inspiration? Wildly creative thinkers share ideas, strategies and warmhearted encouragement to let your genius out.