Magazine cut-outs and family photos have been used by a Japanese reporter to fool the country’s age-verification cigarette machines into selling smokes. With a legal smoking age of 20 in Japan, this is a very simple, no-questions-asked method for Japanese teens to get their fix. As a result of tough new regulations, Japanese cigarette machines […]

Designer Omer Yosha has come up with a prototype for a high tech piano that makes the player seem more like a conductor than a mere pianist, commanding sound with the skilled positioning of the hands. Unlike the imaginary Air Guitar, the AirPiano is a tangible, sophisticated piece of technology as you can see in […]

A new toaster concept, the DT08, has been developed by Daniel Thomas which promises to save both your toast and your digits from nasty burns. The toaster itself is entirely see-through, making it easy to keep an eye on your browning bread. You insert your bread into a slide out tray which also doubles as […]

A group of geniuses over at USC have come up with a remarkably realistic 3D holographic display. The objects look so real on the video (below) you just want to reach out and touch them, but there’s a reason they’re behind glass. The 3D holographic effect is achieved using mirrors which spin at high speed. […]

Duck Image Studio has come up with a sexy alternative to the ubiquitous emergency sprinkler system. They have merged sprinkler and emergency lighting into one shiny, modern unit that requires no power. The water flows into a turbine which spins the blades to fan the water onto the fire. This spinning also generates electricity which […]

We have another futuristic vehicle for you today, this time from Topia Corp who has developed what could be the world’s lightest vehicle. It weighs a mere 150kg, which may trigger a revival in the old lift-a-car feat of strength. The prototype is called “HUVO” and is made from proprietary production and design technologies. It […]

A new design for Peugeot has been unveiled which could be the most ‘out there’ vehicle design to date. Introducing the Ozone concept vehicle. Shaped like a drain pipe, yet strangely beautiful. It runs on hydrogen fuel-cells, naturally. The cabin is positioned between two giant wheels (don’t know how well they would steer) which are […]

DXG, one of the fastest growing U.S. digital camera manufacturers has launched its new compact DXG-567V HD camcorder that can directly upload your video creations to YouTube. Classed as a ‘Pocket Cam’, with dimensions similar to those of an average cell phone, these little beauties will capture HD video at up to 1280 x 720 […]

Researchers at Berkeley and Maryland Universities have developed a unique e-book concept that as well as feeling and looking more like a real book, will let you flip through pages and even fold the two leaves back for more compact reading. The displays can be separated from each other if you’re doing some serious research […]

The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has developed a multiplexer chip that has an operating speed of 45 gigabits per second, enabling the transfer of around four full-length movies in just one second. The performance is achieved using the quantum effect of the resonant tunneling diode and consumes around 75 percent less […]