Soundwave tattoos are the text big thing in ink trends. These innovative tattoos let you play and hear the recordings that you want memorialized. You can get inked with up to a minute of audio and play back using your mobile device. The video below has gotten millions of views. As soon as the video…
It’s a holiday weekend, and a lot of people are going to be consuming bags of chips at their cookouts. But here’s a new take to the crumply bag: Seasoned chips you season yourself. The idea is from the United Kingdom, and it’s a little “Twistd”: Twistd’s potato chips and tortillas are packaged in small,…
A startup company named Dot has created an affordable Braille smartwatch not only for the vision impaired, but for those who are deaf and blind. The watch’s refreshable Braille display is made up of a series of dots which can project up to four Braille characters at a time. Dot keeps time, has an alarm, a…
AxiDraw V3 is coming out this month, and it is capturing penmanship, a writing skill many are thinking may fade into obscurity. Created by Evil Mad Scientist, it’s a pen-plotting robot that serves as a “personal writing and drawing machine.” The machine is $475. Its website states: “The AxiDraw is a simple, modern, precise, and…
South Africa is the first market to test Mastercard’s new next generation biometric card, combining chip technology with fingerprints to verify the cardholder’s identity for in-store purchases. The demonstration happened two weeks ago at Absa Bank and Pick n Pay, a leading supermarket retailer. MasterCard has also previously trialed facial biometrics for payments, launching a…
My friend Robert Tucker over at Innovation Resource has some great tips for getting “unstuck.” I’ll share a few of them here, and then link to his excellent article. If you solve problems for a living, you’ve probably had it happen. Just when you least expect it — and just when you need to be…
I just saw this new Nano Cure Tech clothing line, and it’s pretty interesting. The Imperial Motion company is hoping to disrupt the textile industry with a jacket that actually repairs itself. The wearer simply rubs the fabric together for a few seconds, and the hole completely disappears. You can read more about it over…
I just saw this new Nano Cure Tech clothing line, and it’s pretty interesting. The Imperial Motion company is hoping to disrupt the textile industry with a jacket that actually repairs itself. The wearer simply rubs the fabric together for a few seconds, and the hole completely disappears. You can read more about it over…
I came across a great article from The Times of India, that I thought I’d pass along about the inspiration behind innovative farming. The author describes how the white fly disease affected cotton and forced him to take up research work. From there he developed a network of thought leaders who are changing the way…
I came across a great article from The Times of India, that I thought I’d pass along about the inspiration behind innovative farming. The author describes how the white fly disease affected cotton and forced him to take up research work. From there he developed a network of thought leaders who are changing the way…