Russia’s new microwave gun can supposedly disable missiles and UAVs from six miles away
The Russia-owned United Intstrument Manufacturing Corp. has reportedly developed a real microwave-based weapon, and has plans to display it in private at the Russian Defense Ministry’s Army-2015 expo this week.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Sanitizer robots, fish-finder sunglasses, and more
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
This lock doesn’t require keys, or even your smartphone. All it needs is your fingerprint
Good news ! There's a new smart lock in the works that does away with all these cumbersome key- and phone-based unlocking schemes.
UVe is a $89 robotic countertop cleaner than uses UV light to sanitize surfaces
Just press the Start button, and UVe will spring to life and begin crawling around your countertops autonomously, using UV light to kill germs, and edge detection algorithms to keep itself from falling.
This new injectable brain implant uses electricity to activate individual neurons
Unlike other brain implants, which typically require complex surgical procedures to implant and can sometimes cause scar tissue to form, this new implant only requires a minimally invasive implantation procedure, and uses a soft scaffold that doesn't damage brain tissue.
This tabletop holographic display pulls media from your smartphone and makes it 3D
The Holus, as it's called, is a tabletop holographic platform that takes any digital content -- be it from a computer, tablet, or smartphone -- and converts it into a three-dimensional hologram.
This guy’s ridiculous 40W “laser shotgun” focuses eight beams into one
If you're in the market for a laser shotgun ... you shouldn't be. But since it wasn't illegal to build one, this guy did.
DJI’s new obstacle avoidance tech aims to make drones crash proof
Guidance is essentially a multimodal sensing system that gives the company's newly unveiled Matrice 100 drone autonomous obstacle avoidance capabilities.
Update: After a successful launch, NASA’s flying saucer shreds its parachute on reentry
Earlier today, at about 1:30 PM eastern, the agency launched a high-altitude balloon carrying a craft called the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) -- a large, disc-shaped reentry vehicle designed to create atmospheric drag in order to decelerate during entry through a planet's atmosphere.
New $25 blood test can tell you every virus you’ve ever had
You might not care to know all the illnesses you've ever had, but that kind of information is invaluable to virologists.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Bionic hearing earbuds and bladeless wind turbines
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
Watch live as 24 humanoid robots compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals
In an effort to move disaster relief tech forward, DARPA has launched a robotics competition. In order to win, teams must create a robot that can accomplish a variety of different tasks -- such as walking over rubble, opening doors, and driving vehicles.
Summer is coming: Make your dumb AC smart with Tado
If this freshly-launched Kickstarter campaign reaches its goal, you won't have to dish out big bucks for a smart AC.
The Tweeting Pothole sends complaints directly to public officials when run over
Pressure sensors inside Panama City potholes will tweet repair requests to city officials when run over.
Batteriser is a $2.50 gadget that extends disposable battery life by up to 800%
This slim metal sleeve is essentially a super-minimal voltage booster that slips onto a disposable battery, and extends its life up to a claimed 800 percent for batterie sizes AAA through D.
At long last, somebody finally built a fully functional X-Wing drone
Following up his Millennium Falcon, Tie Fighter, and Imperial Destroyer drones, aerial videographer Oliver C is back with his long-awaited X-Wing fighter
These bladeless wind turbines create electricity without spinning
Instead of capturing energy through the circular motion of a propellor, Vortex turbines take advantage of a physical phenomenon known as vorticity -- an aerodynamic effect that creates a pattern of spinning vortices or whirlwinds.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Folding kayaks & gravity-powered lamps
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
Projection mapping on the Sydney Opera House is the coolest thing you’ll see all day
Every year, the Sydney Opera House invites artists to bring along their projectors and beam animations onto the building's iconic sails.
Watch this tiny robot assemble itself, carry things around, and dissolve into nothing
When placed on a heated surface, the bot's PVC layer will contract, causing it to fold up into an origami shape with legs and a body.
MIT researchers have developed a way to mass produce graphene sheets
Scientists have cooked up a new method for continuous production of graphene -- a process that could finally bring the exotic material out of the lab and into all the high-flying commercial applications we've been dreaming about for the past few years.
This light needs no outlet, solar panels, or batteries — it’s powered by gravity
Instead of using a traditional power outlet or expensive solar panels for electricity, the lamp uses a cheap and effective gravity-powered system to provide light.
Pizza Hut designed an experimental pizza box that transforms into a projector
In a recently-launched campaign for Pizza Hut, a Hong Kong ad firm has designed the "Blockbuster Box" -- a cardboard pizza box that transforms into a projector once you're done eating the pie inside.
Motorize your favorite scuffed-up skateboard with Mellow
The Mellow module includes dual in-wheel motors capable of zipping you around at 25 miles per hour, and a high-capacity lithium-ion battery that'll keep you going for about ten miles per charge.
Fill ‘er up: This gas-powered drone flies for an hour straight, hits 60 mph
Instead of relying solely on batteries and electric motors, the recently-unveiled Yeair! drone uses a mixture of battery power and good old-fashioned combustion engines.
How to cook steak sous vide
Hank Hill would say it just ain't right, but the secret to the ultimate steak isn't propane or charcoal -- it's a bath of hot water. Here's how we made a mouth-watering sous-vide steak.
Awesome tech you can’t buy yet: Eye-tracking VR headsets, folding 3D printers
Check out our roundup of the coolest crowdfunding projects and product announcements that hit the Web this week. You can't buy this stuff yet, but it sure is fun to gawk!
Brilliant new bearing design spins with 10x less friction, doesn’t require grease
A Japanese engineering firm has reportedly developed a new type of bearing that spins with up to 10 times less friction than the bearings we currently use.
Oru’s foldable kayak is back and bigger than ever — and it still fits in your trunk
Despite being four feet longer and considerably more spacious, Oru's latest foldable kayak still collapses down, origami style, to the same size as the company's smaller kayak
This hydrogen-powered drone can theoretically fly for four hours straight
Instead of using the standard lithium-ion cells that most drones rely on for power, the upcoming Hycopter drone uses hydrogen as its energy source. A working version is under development
Brilliant new 3D printer folds up like a briefcase, prints dozens of different materials
The Focus is the first 3D printer specifically designed for easy transport. It's also compatible with an extremely wide range of materials.