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5 High-Tech Steps to Making the Easiest and Fastest Thanksgiving Dinner Ever

Credit: Waring Pro Thanksgiving dinner has long been an all-day affair. But, we’re living in very different times than the days of the earliest feasts, when just cooking meat on a spit over a fire...

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Can This Water-Recycling Shower Save $1,000 in Bills?

Credit: Orbital Systems Ireland is one of those rare places where it seems like clean water flows with abundance. But that’s all about to change as the government has recently begun installing...

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This Device Lets People Video Chat With Their Pets

There are “pet owners” and then there are “pet parents.” For the latter, there isn’t an effort to a great or a price too high to make their little ones feel like part of the family. Over the years,...

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This Wheel Turns Your Bicycle Into An Electric Hybrid

There’s a reason why big city mayors like New York’s Michael Bloomberg have pushed hard for the widespread adoption of bike sharing programs. Getting people to collectively start pedaling, instead of...

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Inventing the Perfect Umbrella

Umbrellas shield people from the rain, but the current design is far from perfect. They fold down into soaked, dripping messes, crumple when hit by powerful blasts of wind and fail to safeguard us...

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Reinvented: Futuristic Toilet Extolls the Health Benefits of Squatting

Credit: Pierre Papet Innovation, fundamentally, has been about the new and improved. But some recently introduced ideas take us back to an older way of doing things, reversing technological...

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Switching to This Flat LED Light Bulb Could Be an Easy Resolution to Keep in...

Credit: Philips At the beginning of 2014, the incandescent glow that has lit American homes for over a century will be dimmed, as the U.S. government halts the production of conventional 60- and...

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Scientists Turn Algae Into Crude Oil In Less Than An Hour

Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Out of all the clean energy options in development, it is algae-based biofuel that most closely resembles the composition of the crude oil that gets...

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Cheers! Robot Bartender Mixes Drinks, Senses When You Need a Double Shot

Credit: Barry Givens In October, I wrote about an expanding chain of semi-automated restaurants in Japan that feature various sophisticated technologies to allow customers to order dishes, refill...

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This Self-Cleaning Plate May Mean You’ll Never Have To Do The Dishes

Credit: Tomorrow Machines It’s an almost immovable mess, that dreaded sinkful of piled-up bowls, plates and utensils that’s often a major point of contention between spouses and roommates. If only...

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