Small, foldable bikes have become a staple of city commutes for all those of us cycling to catch trains or zooming across town to work. Unfortunately, for all the convenience of folding up nice and neat, those mini road-beasts tend not to pack any suspension to soften the pothole-blows to your behind. Read More >>
Featured comment by theran24:
"What an absolutely stupid and dangerous idea. With a large enough force the tyre could easily impact the frame and fork, it's going to soak up a lot o..." More »
Tim Berners-Lee, the internet's loveable dad, has teamed up with Google's UK team to launch an innovation quest over here, with Chromebooks, tech help and £500,000 on offer to those who come up with the best not-for-profit tech startups. Read More >>
Featured comment by s4l3:
"seems like the perfect opportunity to take up Gates' offer and make a new condom whilst also getting support from Berners-Lee and Branson.
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Coming up with ideas and inventions on demand is tricky. I work as the Science Museum's "inventor-in-residence" and it is my job to generate a stream of products and ideas that are interesting to the science-savvy as well as engaging to those new to the museum. If possible the products should also be wildly popular and generate lots of income. No pressure then. Read More >>
Britain is and always has been, a powerhouse of invention, innovation, science and technology. From penicillin, DNA, cloning and stem cells, to carbon fibre, radar, the jet engine, Concorde and the ARM chips that power your smartphone, Britain is behind it all in some sort of capacity. But what's the best British invention from the last 100 years? Read More >>
The UK wing of Kickstarter seems to be doing pretty well for itself, with the money-raising site claiming to have taken pledges for well over half a million quid during its first week of punting projects to the UK audience. Read More >>
Featured comment by Darrell Jones:
"They are a company, the have to make money to pay bills. What this money will do is allow them to spend the time on this project rather than working f..." More »
Sir James Dyson is on a mission to reignite British design and engineering after opening the Royal College of Art Dyson building. The central feature of this space will be a set of 40 incubators for young designers and engineers to cultivate British invention, where the chosen start-ups will be given working space, industry mentors and access to angel investors to help commercialise their ideas. Once each start-up has made their business viable they will fly the nest making room for new designers and engineers to replace them. Read More >>
Featured comment by cinilak:
""He has donated £5m to the building which also houses new fine art and print-making facilities, in the hope of encouraging young innovators to follow..." More »
If you're constantly upgrading to the latest and greatest devices by now you've probably got a small collection of unused smartphones and tablets waiting for a buyer on eBay. But don't sell them just yet. Researchers at the Tokyo University of Technology have developed a brilliant piece of software called Pinch, which can turn a hodge-podge collection of different devices into a single unified display. Read More >>
After some 187 prototypes, Dyson looks like it's finally solved the issue of hair stuffing up your vacuum cleaner with its ingenious tangle-free Turbine tool. No longer will you have to bend over and heave balls of manky hair from your sodding nozzle. Read More >>
Featured comment by klinkenberg:
"Fantastic attention to detail and determination to solve a common problem. Dysons are not cheap, but they are very good machines." More »
The ES Pipe Waterwheel, designed by Korean innovator Ryan Jongwoo Choi, is a simple plumbing accessory that turns simple workaday activities—running a bath, washing your hands, hosing off the dog—into hydroelectricity generative tasks. Read More >>
Featured comment by Harry:
"In most places the water pressure in the system is derived from the gravitational energy of the water; the utilities pump the water to a storage tank ..." More »
A 13-year-old girl from Connecticut named Mallory Kievman has come up with a pretty clever cure for hiccups: vinegar lollipops! She developed the idea after researching various at-home remedies—a teaspoon of vinegar, hard candy, etc—as well as the physiological reason for a bout of hiccups. Read More >>
Featured comment by ugh1979:
"I worked out a guaranteed way to get rid of hiccups many years ago. Get a big glass of water and drink as much as you can of it at once without stopp..." More »
Penn State's department of food science has been hard at work using an electrospinning device to stretch fibrous strands out of a biodegradable food starch solution. Using a solvent to dissolve the starch into a fluid, long strands are spun, which, in great quantity, can be woven together together as one would a textile—the potential application of which extends itself to napkins, tissues, and even medical dressings, like bandages. Read More >>
Featured comment by Phenomenological:
"So you'd happily walk around for a few days with bits of part-degraded bandage hanging off your finger and lint stuck to the bits in between where the..." More »
Certainly you've assembled a piece of Ikea furniture and experienced that special kind of frustration that comes with realising the screw holes don't line up and you have to take everything apart and put it together it again. Now imagine this problem at 750 feet in the air with massive steel girders instead of particle board. When those holes don't line up, it's a whole different kind of frustration. Read More >>
Babies are incredible waste producing-machines, speeding through approximately 10 diapers every day. If you are in possession of a poop-maker, you've got options for dealing with their impressive output: disposables, cloth, something called FuzziBunz. Read More >>
Stoolies, rats, and snitches might one day have Bahram Azizollah Ganji to thank for not getting killed. Because he just created the world's smallest capacitor microphone, measuring in at just half a millimetre on each side. Read More >>
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