Automatic Dog Washing Machine
I think this is pretty cool; I’m sure some will object though. It was “designed by a team of veterinarians and engineers to clean the dog very very well. Its very very safe.” You probably can’t afford...
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The First Web Server
Photo by sbisson from Geneva, Switzerland, November 2006 . In a glass case at CERN is an unpreposessing little NeXT cube. It’s hard to believe that this little workstation changed the world, but it...
View ArticleToyota Develops Thought-controlled Wheelchair
Toyota has developed a thought-controlled wheelchair (along with Japanese government research institute, RIKEN, and Genesis Research Institute). Honda has also developed a system that allows a person...
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Moth Controlled Robot
Photo of moth controlled robot from Ryohei Kanzaki’s bio-machine page. The moth is on top of the ping pong ball in the middle of the robot. Japanese scientists to build robot insects Ryohei Kanzaki, a...
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1979 “iPod” Music Player
1979 music player patent drawings by Kane Kramer, from Gizmodo Suspiciously Prescient Man Files Patent for iPod-Like Device in 1979 by Dan Nosowitz Kane Kramer, an inventor by trade, came up with a...
View ArticleBike Folds To Footprint of 1 Wheel
Inventor’s Bike Folds Into Its Own Wheel Dominic Hargreaves‘s bike, The Contortionist, has been shortlisted for this year’s James Dyson Award for innovation. It may bag the young inventor £10,000. The...
View ArticleEngineering: Cellphone Microscope
UCLA Professor Aydogan Ozcan‘s invention (LUCAS) enables rapid counting and imaging of cells without using any lenses even within a working cell phone device. He placed cells directly on the imaging...
View ArticleNikola Tesla – A Scientist and Engineer
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) was born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan, in the Austrian Empire (today’s Croatia), he was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American...
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sOccket: Power Through Play
In a fun example of appropriate technology and innovation 4 college students have created a football (soccer ball) that is charged as you play with it. The ball uses an inductive coil mechanism to...
View ArticleiPhone Addition as Alternative to Expensive Ophthalmology Equipment
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed two inexpensive adapters that enable a smartphone to capture high-quality images of the front and back of the eye. The adapters...
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