cool new awesome inventions

Someone Made A Portable Fire Extinguisher That Uses Sound Waves To Put Out Flames

Scientists have long been experimenting with using sound waves to stop fires. So far, though, no one’s been able to shrink the devices capable of squashing ... Read More...

Google X’s Energy Kites Redesign The Wind Turbine As A Flying Power Generator

Wind turbines are great, harnessing natural wind to produce electricity. Despite that, they still don’t make economic sense in plenty of places, especially ... Read More...

Scientists Create Self-Cleaning Paint That’s Also Highly-Resistant To Scratching

Super-hydrophobic paint isn’t just great because it repels water, it’s also naturally self-cleaning, so there’s no accumulation of dirt as with regular coat... Read More...

Color-Blind People Can Use The Enchroma CX Sunglasses To See The World In All Its Hues

Color blindness is currently incurable for majority of people who suffer from the affliction. And while seeing the world in incomplete hues is a whole lot b... Read More...

With The Flow Hive, Harvesting Honey Becomes A Set-And-Forget Affair

Harvesting honey can be a laborious and messy endeavor. Between sedating the bees, clearing out the frames, and extracting the honey, it’s a multi-step proc... Read More...

Watch This Man Who’s Been Blind For A Decade See Again Using The Second Sight Argus II

Imagine you have a regenerative eye disease that slowly took your eyesight over time, leaving you completely blind before your 60th birthday. That’s what ha... Read More...

Finally, An Inflammation-Free Tattoo Removal Cream For Conveniently Erasing Some Of Life’s More Unfortunate Choices

Remember when you thought it was a good idea to have the neighborhood kid put Yann Travaille-style tattoos on your forearm? Yeah, it wasn’t. And while surgi... Read More...

Scientists Develop New Process To X-Ray The Insides Of Bacteria

X-rays have allowed us to take quick snapshots inside our bodies for a long time now. For bacteria, though, the process isn’t quite as simple, often requiri... Read More...

GoSun Is The Portable Solar Cooker Your Beach Outings And Picnics Have Needed All Along

Harnessing solar power for cooking is something that’s been done before. The GoSun, however, manages to integrate its sun-powered technology in a highly-por... Read More...

Gimball Is The World’s First Collision-Proof Drone

Armed with a flood lights (obviously not this big) and a camera, an aerial drone can be very useful during search operations, allowing you to survey an area... Read More...

Sprayable Sleep Offers An Alternative Way To Get Your Nightly Dose Of Melatonin

Melatonin pills have been available for a while now, promising a magic bullet that helps induce sleep. Except, like many magic bullets, it doesn’t actually ... Read More...

Scientists Invent A Way To Unboil Eggs In Five Minutes

Science is awesome, letting us build useful things like exoskeletons with superhuman strength, tractor beams, and artificial human brains. This time around,... Read More...

Sophisticated Sensors Allow The Tech-Air Motorcycle Airbags To Trigger Right Before You Hit Any Solid Surface

There are few things more liberating than hopping on an insanely powerful motorcycle and hitting the open road. There are, however, also few things more haz... Read More...

Wear The Fortis Exoskeleton And Shave Off 36 Pounds Out Of Any Heavy Object You Carry

While we’re probably far from having exoskeletons that will give us Incredible Hulk strength, it doesn’t mean we’re not making headway on artificially enhan... Read More...

iChip Allows Scientists To Discover First New Antibiotic In 25 Years

Before Teixobactin, an experimental antibiotic recently found by scientists, it’s been 25 years since a new antibiotic has been discovered. That drought end... Read More...

20 Most Interesting and Innovative Things From CES 2015

CES 2015 saw thousands of tech and electronic companies take to the floor to show off their latest innovations and gadgets. These are the ones we liked best.

WattUp Can Wirelessly Charge Devices From 15 Feet Away

While wireless charging has been with us in consumer form since the Powermat debuted in 2009, current evolution of the technology still sees us tethered to ... Read More...

Sure, It’s No Tesla, But The Gogoro Smartscooter Just Might End Up Being The Electric Vehicle For The Masses

There are plenty of upsides to electric vehicles. Having to plug them in for hours before you can hit the road definitely isn’t one of them. The Gogoro Smar... Read More...

Someone Made A New Bed Bug Trap That Can Catch All Of The Nasty Critters In Your Pad

A new bed bug trap that can draw 100 percent of the little suckers may be at hand. That’s the promise behind a new blend of attractant developed by research... Read More...

The World Doesn’t Need A Drinking Fountain For Dogs, But I Want One Of These Pawcets Anyway

There’s really nothing wrong with leaving a bowl of water out on the floor, so your dog can slurp a drink any time he gets thirsty. That’s why, there’s abso... Read More...

Soarigami Splits The Airplane Armrest Into Two

Expecting a single armrest to support two passengers sitting right next to each other in a plane is just all manners of horrible design. And it doesn’t seem... Read More...

Scientists Created An Erasable And Rewritable Paper That You Can Use Up To 20 Times

Despite the many talks about a paperless office over the years, the pulp product remains an indispensable part of our daily lives. And from the looks of thi... Read More...