It’s powerful like a gorilla, yet soft and yielding like a Nerf ball. Oh, and it has a “Bort” license plate.
Innovation
Steve Wozniak Disrupts the Drive at Ford’s ‘Go Further’ Confab
Woz weighs in on Ford’s cloud-connected automotive tech.
The Future of Libraries: Short on Books, Long on Tech
This isn’t your childhood library.
This Exercise Bike Features a Huge Touchscreen, Webcam and Live-Streaming Spin Classes
Some people love spinning. Some people love tech. Some people love not leaving their homes. Here’s the bike for those people.
NeverWet: What Kind of Strange, Sick and Wonderful Water-Repelling Voodoo Is This?!
If you watch one video today, watch this video. You won’t be sorry.
Kiddovation: 6 Cool Inventions from High-Schoolers at MIT’s EurekaFest
Checking in on the next generation of innovators — high-schoolers from around the country showcase their ideas at MIT’s EurekaFest invention fair.
Tesla Shows Off 90-Second Battery Swap for Its Electric Cars
From depleted to back on the road in 90 seconds, Tesla shows off its new battery-swapping trick.
Leery of Facial Recognition? These Glasses Might Help
If you’re like Rockwell, you always feel like somebody’s watching you. And there’s no better way to fly under the radar of facial recognition systems than by wearing an oversized pair of glasses with nearly half a dozen …
For Semi-Autonomous Driving, the Future Is Now
Driverless cars are the future. And that future is still years away. In the meantime, consumers can experience the building blocks of driverless cars, which are already on the market as “driver assist” features.
We Can Now Map Rooms Down to the Millimeter with a Finger Snap
Bats do it, dolphins do it — even short-tailed shrews do it.
Finally, a Flying Bike (in Case You Need to Smuggle an Alien)
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s — oh wait, a bike. It’s a flying bike.
This Temporal Laser Cloak Can Hide Things in Time
How long before we’re hiding pocket universes?