G-strings, the bare-faced solution to swimming’s problems
With the row over space-age bodysuits threatening to engulf swimming, it was only a matter of time before a top athlete lent his voice to calls for a radical, no-nonsense solution. Japan's Ryosuke...
View ArticleHonda’s new wheel
It looks deceptively simple: a stool with a wheel, or an electric unicycle. But Honda Motor, maker of cars, motorbikes, robots and aircraft, says it embodies state-of-the-art technology and may one day...
View Article3D images you can touch
In Sci-Fi films, there’s one thing you never see people use: a mouse and keyboard. In our 21st century world, technology is supposed to have advanced to where all you need to do is talk to a computer...
View Article3D TV is on its way
Whenever I hear the words “3D TV”, I’m reminded of a scene in the 1971 flick Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in which Mike Teavee uses Wonka’s television chocolate machine to miniaturise...
View ArticleBrain-powered travel
It may not look like much, but this run of the mill electric wheelchair runs on brainpower – no hands required. Part of a joint project between Japan’s Riken Brain Science Institute and Toyota, the...
View ArticleTwo dimensions of 3D
An old Saturday Night Live segment once included this joke when Frank Sinatra was still alive: “‘Ol’ Blue Eyes’ is back in town, and sources report nobody’s interested and nobody cares.” That line came...
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