Moving trashcan catches your falling trash

Japanese inventor Minokur posts a video of his latest invention: the " Smart Trashbox ," a battery-operated trash can that uses X...

MaKey MaKey - an invention that lets you turn anything into a keyboard

Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, final-year PhD students at the MIT Media Lab, bring you MaKey MaKey - a device you plug into your computer v...

The 3D chocolate printer is a real thing

Scientists from the U.K.'s University of Exeter have built the world's first working 3d chocolate printer that actually creates cust...

Advances in windows

The future is now: Ashley Esqueda is at CES 2012 introducing her favorite thing of the show - the Samsung "Smart Window." You...

Turning the page like a boss

A regular morning for kinetic artist/hipster Joseph Herscher : getting up, drinking a sip of coffee and reading the newspaper with a little ...

Awesome thing of the day: the Flyboard

The Flyboard was invented by Marseille-based jet ski champion Franky Zapata and it's basically a water-powered jet pack that can turn yo...

Robotic pillow

Seen at the International Robot Exhibition, in Tokyo: Dr. Kabe from Wasaeda Univeristy’s Kabe Lab in the Faculty of Human Science, demonstra...

The Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

Researchers at the Technische Universität in Berlin have developed a multi-sensor throwable camera that's able to snap a single 360 degr...

Poop-powered bike

TOTO , a Japanese toilet manufacturer, just launched its new toilet-slash-motorcycle that runs entirely on what they call biogas (we call it...

Innovative invention of the day

A man with a Russian accent presents his invention: via

Epic bacon-cooking alarm clock

Wake n’ Bacon is one of those things you never knew you needed, but now, once you've seen it, you know you do. What it does is wakes yo...

Revolutionary photo camera lets you focus after taking the picture

It's called Lytro and it has a plenoptic sensor that collects directional data that allows its software to recognize when objects are o...

13-year-old boy invents doorbell that tricks burglars into thinking you're home

From The Daily Mail : A schoolboy is on course for a £250,000 windfall after inventing a doorbell that fools burglars into believing somebod...

Neverending climbing machine

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The wearable mind-controlled cat ears are a real thing

Designed by Japanese company Neurowear, the Necromimi, once put on, reacts to brain waves to express your emotions. Basically, you can contr...

Finger-Nose™ - the touch screen stylus for your nose

Dominic Wilcox , artist, designer, inventor and "thinkeruper", says: Sometimes use my touchphone in the bath. I know it's stup...

Virtual kissing machine

E-French-kissing: it's improbable, but not impossible. The Kajimoto Laboratory at the University of Electro-Communications in Japan is w...

Old age simulator

In case you want to experience being old, there's The Aged Simulation Set , by Japanese company Koken: The aged simulation set is a teac...

Magic mayonnaise and ketchup remover is magic

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Solution for unhappy children: Electro Smile

Everyone wants their children to smile all the time. A Japanese inventor has found a solution: electric shocks: This new invention just hook...