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Battery powered cars are nothing new, but were quickly replaced by the gas-powered combustion engine. In today's climate of global-warming concerns there are a growing number of startups trying to bring back the electric car in a sexy and high-performance way to show the world just what can be achieved while reducing emissions.

Ian Wright from New Zealand, who previously worked for... read more

For years, Lonnie G. Johnson has been inventing thermodynamics systems for NASA and other organizations; but he has won his greatest fame for re-inventing the squirt gun. 

Johnson capped a childhood of tinkering with appliances in his senior year of high school, when he won a national inventing competition for... read more

Although originally announced back in 2004, this is still an innovation that truly shows that there is always a different and possibly better way of doing things.

Michelin have always been an innovative company and, whilst there are still problems to be resolved in terms of noise and heat dissipation at higher speeds, the concept of a tyre that cannot have a blow out has obvious safety... read more

This looks like an excellent solution to residential parking problems.

Key Benefits:

• Double your space by parking two vehicles in the footprint of one parking stall
• Unobtrusive and secure - the lift and lower vehicle are completely concealed
• Aesthetically pleasing - canopy surface can be tiled to match surroundings
• Multiple units... read more

I thought that this was so cool that it deserved to be here. From the manufacturer:

"The model 02 is designed to deliver the total computing performance necessary to achieve personal and professional productivity, anytime and anywhere.

The model 02 - with its robust processing power, Microsoft Windows operating system, application compatibility, memory and storage capacity,... read more

Ray Kurzweil is an engineer who has radically advanced the fields of speech, text, and audio technology. He's also one of our finest thinkers, revered for his dizzying, yet convincing, writing on the advance of technology, the limits of biology, and the future of the human species. Prolific inventor and outrageous visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s,... read more

Robert Fischell invented the rechargeable pacemaker, the implantable insulin pump, and devices that warn of epileptic seizures and heart attacks. Yet it's not just his inventive genius that makes him fascinating, but his determination to make the world a better place. Robert Fischell began his work in space development, and created a 16-satellite system called Transit that was a key precursor... read more

Saul Griffith offers a glimpse into the future with this compelling overview of his works-in-progress and materials-in-progress. The award-winning inventor shares the inspiration (a droplet of water) behind his low-cost prescription lenses, produced by a machine the size of an inkjet printer. Other projects include Howtoons and Instructables (comics that show how to build things and understand... read more

Continuous Surface System

Chuck Hoberman, of Hoberman Associates, has developed the work presented here over the last seven years. Unique hybrids of both structure and mechanism, folding structures are "shapes that grow themselves" – fluidly transforming from tight and compact bundles to strong yet graceful structural elements. The possible forms and functions of these... read more

DaVinci Webcasting products from Texas Instruments. "See live action like you’ve never imagined: closer, clearer and crisper. DaVinci™ Technology enables you to stream live, high-performance video directly to portable, handheld devices, an on-board intelligence system in your car, or even the command center in your television, just to name a... read more