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Almost Genius: A Helmet That Stinks When It Needs to Be Replaced

A safety invention geared to selling more bike helmets, with an ingenious form of planned obsolescence.READ»

Scientists Give Skis a Tech-y Tune-Up on the Eve of Olympics

With the Vancouver Olympics fast approaching, it's appropriate that researchers in Germany are studying how to adapt ski wax and coatings to best suit particular snow conditions, allowing skiers to obtain the fastest speeds ...READ»

How to Conjure Water From Thin Air

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart say they've invented a novel way to turn air moisture into drinking water, thus helping solve the dire water shortages that face much of the world. Here's how it works. First ...READ»

Researchers Invent Eye-Tracking Eyeglass Display, Star Trek-Style

It may not be quite up to the spec of Geordi La Forge's visor on Star Trek TNG, but researchers in Germany have come up with an eyeglass-mounted display that's so freakily high-tech you may need only to move your eyes to control a PC.READ»