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Looking to reduce your carbon footprint but don't want to give up your clean clothes? The Drumi, from Yirego, is a foot-powered washing machine that requires no electricity and only 10 liters of water per wash. The post ...

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Inspiration drawn from Industrial Espresso Machines. Translating the design of the espresso machine into the watch led me to focus on the steam vent aesthetics, and use those details throughout the timepiece. I believe t...

Dallas-based Architect Matt Mooney is making headlines for his creation, PV14, a house created out of steel shipping containers. The structure has features including balconies, a penthouse, and a 40-foot-long pool. The p...

Nine-week-old Elijah Cook just heard the best sound in the world for the first time: his mom's voice. Only able to hear 75 decibels in his right ear and profoundly deaf in his left ear, the baby boy was born with severe ...

BlackBerry users from days of yore may remember the condition that was jokingly dubbed BlackBerry thumb -- that is, a repetitive strain injury caused by tapping the device's buttons over and over again for long periods o...

Google says its Project Loon is close to being able to produce and launch thousands of balloons to provide Internet access from the sky. Such a number would be required to provide reliable Internet access to users in rem...

If you're fond of macro photography, you know the troubles often encountered when trying to illuminate a subject without overpowering it. The task becomes even more difficult when attempting to use more than one color li...

When airport security researcher Chris Roberts tweeted about his ability to hack the in-cabin control systems aboard his Boeing 747 flight, he probably wasn't anticipating the quip would get him detained by the Feds. Onl...

Heroes are all around us, if you know where to look. Dubai-based, Scottish/South African photographer Martin Beck harnessed his unique sense of humor to create "We Can Be Heroes," a series of gritty portraits of everyday...

The U.S. Navy is developing small, inexpensive drones that operate in "swarms" after being deployed.

As the 3D printing boom continues, there's one thing that is almost always the same: objects are printed from rigid plastic. How are we supposed to print soft, plushy things like stuffed animals from that kind of materia...

Let your bikes be visible from every angle at night. Call it a bike safety device or a beautiful light enhancement, the Orfos Flare 360 Degree Bike Headlight and Tail Light is designed to create a charming force field of...

It's been more than a year since Comcast announced its plan to buy fellow cable giant Time Warner Cable in a $45 billion deal, but it still hasn't received the blessings of various regulators. Now, word is leaking out fr...

To combat the increasingly dense layer of dead satellites and miscellaneous space debris that are enshrouding our planet, no idea -- nets, lassos, even ballistic gas clouds -- seems too far-fetched to avoid. Now, an inte...

Mark Zuckerberg means well. Or at least the billionaire says he does in a recent blog post about net neutrality and the Facebook-backed nonprofit Internet.org. Long story short, publishers in India are pulling their cont...

Technically Incorrect: Chris Roberts says he sent his tweet because he's frustrated that a security flaw isn't being addressed.

Right now is a good time to look for Virgo, since the bright moon is not lighting up the evening sky. (Virgo may be very large, but most of her stars are rather dim.)

The PBS series "Finding Your Roots" is all about uncovering the ancestry of the show's celebrity guests. But according to a hacked Sony email, one guest requested to have his family tree censored. Ben Affleck was feature...

To put it mildly, Windows Phone's official mapping options are... basic. However, Microsoft is promising a better experience with the mobile Maps app in Windows 10. Get a recent preview version of Windows 10 and you'll s...

NASA really wants humans make it to Mars, and it also really wants to be the one that gets us there. In fact, NASA administrator Charles Bolden went so far as to say that "No commercial company without the support of NAS...