Volvo is jumping into the plug-in hybrid fray. Perhaps best known for its breakthroughs in safety (the Swedish carmaker first introduced the modern day three-point safety belt in 1958, the first rear-facing child seat in 1964, the first…
If you have an iPhone, odds are you’ve geeked out on apps. Even my 18 month old has some favorites (Peekaboo Barn is genius!). A year ago,…
We frequently include clips from the remarkable TED series. This video, from TED‘s July conference in Oxford, is of William Kamkwamba, from Malawi. Kamkwamba’s story is an amazing testament to the power of innovation, of…
Is Honda serious with this? In what appears to be its answer to the Segway, Honda has introduced a self-balancing electric unicyle. The U3-X travels at 3.7 MPH on an hour of battery life, folds…
Can 35 first-year students at the University of Sydney deliver the car of the future? For five months, the students have been tinkering with their zero emissions, all-electric car, dubbed ‘ManGo.’ In designing this concept car,…
To hell with the panda! It’s not strong enough to survive in the wild and the millions spent on preserving it could be better spent elsewhere. That provocative suggestion, from Chris Packham, a wildlife expert and…
