Quirky has unveiled a new suction cup solar charger called the Ray which has been designed to provide you with a convenient pocket solar powered charger for electronic gadgets. The Quirky Ray is equipped with a powerful suction cup that enables it to be attached to glass windows providing the perfect position to gain as much power [...]

Its taken a team of over 130 BYU engineering students and more than seven years to complete the task but now their Electric Blue Electric streamliner has finally broken the electric car land speed record. The Electric Blue streamliner raced down the Bonneville Salt Flats setting an average speed of 155.8 mph and hitting a maximum speed of 175 mph. The Blue [...]

Design firm Object & Line have shown off a new design concept at the 2011 London Design Festival, the Moss Table, which is a table that uses plants to to generate energy. The Moss Table is based on the research of Cambridge University, and the designers and scientists have been looking into how plants like [...]

If you would prefer to use something a little more interesting rather than an old tradition and boring white power strip to plug you devices into. Art Lebedev has taken the humble power extension and transformed it into something very unique and pig like with the unveiling of their Svintus Power Strip Pig concept.

A new device using carbon nanotubes has been created by researchers at the University of Dallas which creates its own mirage to become invisible. A mirage effect is normally associated with hot climates where heat creates the optical mirage phenomenon by bending light rays on long roads in the heat of the sun, as pictured below. Watch a [...]

An innovative concept camera design has been created by French designer Charlie Nghiem which has no buttons to navigate its features with but uses a stack of dials positioned on the right hand side to allow you to select the modes and features you would like to use. When you spin any dial a settings menu [...]

We know that the next Android smartphone from Google, will be the Google Nexus Prime, which is being made by Samsung for Google, and we have already heard some of the specifications on the Google Nexus Prime. The Google Nexus Prime is rumored to feature a dual core TI OMAP 4460 processor, plus a 8 [...]

Are you looking for something a little more environmentally friendly to travel around on? If you are this very innovative T20 Bamboo Electric Scooter might be just the solution. The ‘T20′ bamboo electric bike is a prototype by french designer Antoine Fritsch and is constructed from bamboo, together with cork, steel, aluminium and rubber. Under the footrest Fritsch has incorporated [...]

TAG Heuer has created the worlds fastest chronograph watch which is capable of measuring out 1/1000ths of a second at 500 Hz. The new TAG Heuer Mikrotimer is equipped with a small balance wheel inside which goes back and forth 3.6 million times an hour. To put that in perspective when you compare this to a Rolex watch who’s balance wheel [...]

One thing you can guarantee when you use this Sling Shot Camera concept is that the expressions on your target face will definitely be a little different when compared to that when a traditional camera is pointed at them. Designed by Sung Young Um & Jung Eun Yim the Sling Shot camera has been designed to create a natural photographs when you take aim at an unsuspecting [...]

An industrious team of volunteers from Teesdale Conservation in Durham, UK have transformed a V6 car to run on just coffee grinds. Which has now just broken the existing Guinness World Record “for vehicles run on gas from organic waste” setting a new speed record. The car has been equipped with a gasifier which burns organic material at high [...]

Medical value? Can it cure disease? How foolish to assume so, of course it can’t. What the prototypical eT-shirt does much better is monitor the wearer’s vitals. It also has a built-in GPS tracker and thermometer. Currently tested in a Madrid hospital, the eT-Shirt is showing promise.