Motorola’s biostamp electronic tattoo is composed of silicon and contains an electrical circuit, antennae and sensors that bend and move with the wearer’s body. When used in conjunction with the tattoos, mobile devices could then be used to confirm the owner’s identity and log them in to accounts automatically. Continue reading for and up-close picture and more information.
There’s nothing wrong with being lazy, but these cool and creative home inventions, ideas allow you to do so while being efficient at the same time. Starting off, we have a solar-powered tent that’s great for backyard camping during the warmer summer months. Continue reading to see more.
Yes, Justin Beckerman, an 18-year-old high school student, spent 6-months and $1000 building a working one-man submarine that can submerge up to 30 feet, complete with lights, paddles, ballasts, and air compressors. Continue reading for a video and more information.
USBCell batteries may have been available for quite sometime, but for those who need AA battery power on the go, this should do the trick. To recharge, simply pop off the cover and plug in the battery into USB port of your computer, laptop, gaming console, or a charging station. Product page. Continue reading for a video review and more information.
Sun Jifa, a farmer from China’s northern Jilin province, lost both his hands when a fishing explosive went off prematurely in his home nine years ago. Not wanting to lose his main source of income, Sun spent the next eight years crafting his own steel bionic pair from scratch with little direction but his own intuition. Continue reading for a video and more information.
Unlike other rings, this one by San Francisco engineer Ben Kokes designed a high-tech ring to propose to his fiance. Concealed within the ring are tiny LEDs which light up when Kokes is nearby, illuminating the stones in the titanium ring. Continue reading for a video and more information.
What you’re looking at above is a real-life lightsaber that can actually slice through things. According to its creator, “this laser uses the new 9mm 450nm laser diode and runs on two 18650 Li Ion batteries – the housing is a custom machined ‘Sirius’ host.” Continue reading for a video and more information.
Always wanted a full-color display system for your bicycle wheels? If so, then look no further than the Monkey Light Pro. Simply put as possible, it consists of four LED light strips that bolt together and attach to the hub and spokes of your bicycle rims. Using an on-board two-axis accelerometer and four magnets, the system keeps track of speed and rotation direction to display a stabilized image at speeds between ten and forty miles per hour. The LED lights are visible from both sides of the bicycle and the image produced by the 256 rotating LEDs is full color and 70 pixels in diameter. Continue reading for a video.
Japanese company Spiber has created an electric blue dress made of synthetic spider silk that’s at least five times stronger than steel, more flexible than nylon and three times stronger than body armor Kevlar. Continue reading for a video and more information.
We have seen the future of paint, and it’s “Bare Paint” by Bare Conductive. That’s right, London-based Bare Conductive Ltd. has developed a paint that actually conducts electricity. It “offers a number of usages, from the artistic to the practical. From having a working light switch drawn on paper to a sound-producing billboards, Bare Pain truly electrifies painting.” Continue reading for a video and more information.