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As the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games are soon to begin, the London government is now busying with many projects to make the city good enough to welcome guests from all over the world. One of those projects is the LCD smart recycling bins built in London’s streets and public spaces. Each recycling bin features a couple of LCD screens on either side, which will display the latest news from 6 am to the mid-night every day. The bins are fitted with Wi-Fi too, so that they can offer a better and wider connectivity. Since these bins are nearly the most high-tech recycling bins we’ve ever met, each of them will cost about £30,000 to build.

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The Zoological Institute at the University of Kiel has drawn an inspiration from geckos and insects which have an ability to defy gravity, to develop a new dry adhesive tape that features quite outstanding performance. Moreover, the super-strong tapes can maintain its boning strength even when it has been used for thousands of times. It can also work under water, and leaves no sticky residue.

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Technology changes the life, and quite soon you’ll see fabric that can convey therapeutic treatments through the skin. Developed by Schoeller Textil AG, the “iLoad” is made to soak up positively charged medical emulsion and then release the substance into the wearer’s skin when triggered by warmth, perspiration or other elements. Moreover, the fabric can be washed with industrial machines to remove lingering residue and then make it ready for reuse. Except used for medical treatment, the “iLoad” fabric is expected to create odor-neutralizing clothes too.

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Researchers from the University of Southampton have recently developed a new type of nanostructured glass that can optically store data forever. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The great development of technology has made everything possible. After we come with typewriters, cellphones, computers, etc, we now meet this Kiss Transmission Device. [Read the rest of this entry...]

In ancient China people used to write on silk when there was no paper created, while nowadays researchers from Taiwan still prefer to use silk as basic materials for e-reader displays. The process begins with “liquid silk”, which is turned into insulating membranes to make the TFT (thin-film transistor) screens. These new e-reader displays are not only flexible, bendy but also cheap compared to existing ones. As a result, we may conveniently roll up e-readers just as we roll up books or newspapers, sounds really amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

No one would believe that glass can be stronger and tougher than steel, if they hadn’t seen the new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass collaborated by Berkeley Lab and the California Institute of Technology. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ladies who have devoted themselves to the pursuit of beauty and youth will surely be happy and excited to hear the news: their skin will stay white, tender and healthy with the help of the Nylgold textile fiber. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. recently announced a new hybrid energy harvesting device that can convert both heat and light into electricity. Different from other devices that generate electricity from heat and light with the help of other devices, this one from Fujitsu can manage that process all by itself. Furthermore, the hybrid device is also believed to “pave the way to the widespread use of highly efficient energy harvesting devices” due to its low cost. [Read the rest of this entry...]

For so long a time we’ve been dreaming of a TV set that lets us smell the delicious foods when we see them on the screens, however it’s still a dream nowadays. But good news is that we can at least own a printer that lets us smell the foods on the pictures now. The amazing printer is a collaborative work by Japanese scientists from Keio University, who developed an innovative technology that can print smells using a modified ink-jet printer. Therefore next time you see an apple, you can catch the sweet aroma of the apple too. Isn’t that fantastic? I even couldn’t wait to have a try with the Smells Printer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

No body would give himself or herself up to the autonomous cars without struggle, but at least the latest news from Google can make us think twice before we refuse to have a try. According to Google, seven test cars have driven 1,000 miles without human intervention and more than 140,000 miles with only occasional human control. And the Google cars seldom come into accidents except one car that was rear-ended while stopped at a traffic light. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can the LCD TVs become much thinner and lighter? Obviously the answer to that question has been known with complete certainty, after the researchers at Japanese chemical company Teijin and Yamaguchi University claimed that they’ve come up a new production method to reduce the weight of LCD displays. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What if you could change the window glass, the table surface, or even a piece of plastic into a sensitive touch screen? That sounds attractive, right? Then you’ll be quite interested in the thin film invented by Displax. Easily stuck onto common materials like the glass, plastic and wood, the film could turn most flat surfaces that are range from 3-inches to 120-inches into touch screens. It features a transparency rate of up to 98 percent and comes with an outstanding ability to detect 16 fingers on a 50-inch screen. The first thin film will be available in July. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ve been used to seeing through the windows from time to time, because in that way, we could learn clearly what is happening outside. And maybe that’s why windows are made of translucent glass. But this piece of glass not only tells us what is happening outside, but also what will happen in the future. Powered by solar energy, the cute gadget will show you any needed information when it is wirelessly connected to your computer. So next time you need weather reports, dates and flight information, check them out on your windows. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You know E-ink, but you may not have heard of E-skin. Very basically put, the E-skin and E-ink presents more or less the same technology, but the former is better and more popular than the latter one. No longer featuring a black-and-white technology, the E-skin, Philips claimed, allows several colors to be built into one layer while still ensures that each color is separately controlled. Therefore, either separate colors or multiple colors will appear on a transparent layer, all coming under an accurate control. Hopefully, the new technology will soon be applied to players, cell phones and other devices. This time, it is colorful words that make the life colorful. [Read the rest of this entry...]