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2012 Invention Awards: A Recirculating Shower
A cleaner wash feeds back water as you shower Taking a shower draws more water and more energy than any other daily household activity. Low-flow showerheads save only a little of both, typically at the...
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FYI: Are There Traffic Laws in Space Yet?
Space Traffic David Bases/Getty Images Only a few. Right now, the roughly 20,000 man-made objects orbiting the Earth are less regulated than the cars on a morning commute. Satellites are usually on a...
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2012 Invention Awards: A Higher-Efficiency, Lower-Emission Engine System
An engine mod uses waste heat to cut gas consumption For the better part of Frank Will's life, he has been consumed with improving engine performance. He started racing motorcycles as a teenager in...
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Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark
Down the Hatch Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Tom Mannering Last August, while diving to conduct a fish census on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, marine ecologist Daniela Ceccarelli...
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Hands-On: The Touchscreen-Equipped Canon T4i
Canon T4i Stan Horaczek Our friends over at Popular Photography got a hands-on look at the new Canon EOS Rebel T4i, the sequel to the fantastic entry-level T3i DSLR. It's not wildly different from its...
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Pop Review: The Logitech K760 Solar Keyboard
Logitech K760 Dan Nosowitz Logitech's new K760 keyboard has a solar charger and a fast-switching Bluetooth function that'll get you paired with multiple devices in a snap. It's great. Here's why. What...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, June 4-8, 2012
Long Shot Astronaut Don Pettit is actually one of our favorite photographers, and we especially love his extremely long exposures--makes space look completely wild, almost like a videogame. See more of...
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This Week in the Future, June 4-8, 2012
This Week in the Future, June 4-8, 2012 Baarbarian In a tribute to the great Ray Bradbury, an image even he couldn't have envisioned: a dead stuffed cat given the power of flight. Want to win this...
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How To Make Your Own Home Drink Carbonation System
Sodastream machines are nice, but for the true seltzer addict, a do-it-yourself carbonation system can be cheaper, more flexible, and more fun If your friends and family are anything like mine, you've...
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Video: Sound Artist Liz Phillips Makes A Screamin' Meal
Liz Phillips Sean Yeaton It's easy to take for granted how marvelously our senses work together to give definition to the world around us. Having the ability to see, for example, is one excuse to make...
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Industrial Food Machine Video of the Day: Toasting and Frying Taco Shells
Flaming the Tortillas via YouTube Tacos are the best. Broken taco shells from the box (if I am too lazy to fry up some fresh ones) are not the best. Taco shells must be handled with care, from...
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How to Copy the Great Mineral Waters of Europe At Home
Mineral Waters Wikimedia CommonsYou've built your own carbonator; now start mineralizing The mineral composition of water varies subtly, almost imperceptibly, from place to place. Variation in bedrock...
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Slow-Mo Video: How Food is Eaten
Saveur assistant editor Anna Stockwell is a woman of many talents -- she cooked a whole goose last year -- but when we brought the Phantom v642 super-slow-motion super-camera over to the Saveur office,...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, June 11-15, 2012
Bursting Through This is what it looks like when an F/A 18F Super Hornet bursts through the sound barrier. Read more here. U.S. Navy/Jarod Hodge Thanks for joining us for Food Tech week! And now, a few...
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2012 Invention Awards: An Assisted-Walking Device That Senses Your Step
An insole restores communication between the brain and injured feet Long before he became an inventor, Jon Christiansen was a sea captain. In 1985 he was hired to sail a replica of the Godspeed, the...
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Invent Your Own Anything
Edison Invents! Wikimedia CommonsA step-by-step guide to becoming a successful inventor The path to becoming a successful inventor is easier than ever--but there are also a surplus of options, and it...
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IBM's Sequoia Supercomputer is Now the World's Fastest Computing Machine
The Department of Energy's Sequoia Supercomputer NNSAThe latest TOP500 supercomputer rankings, released today, place America's 16-plus-petaflop machine at the top The latest TOP500 ranking of the...
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Another Milestone for China's Space Program as Space Pod Docks With Orbital Lab
Taikonauts on the Tiangong A TV screen shot shows Chinese astronauts Jing Haipeng (right), Liu Wang (left) and Liu Yang entering the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module on June 18. ImagineChina Chinese...
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The Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Returns to Earth After a 15-Month Secret...
The Air Force's X-37B--its secret robotic space plane that's been orbiting the Earth on a mission shrouded in mystery for more than a year--landed safely in the wee hours Saturday morning at Vandenberg...
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Voyager 1, Moving Ever Closer to Solar System's Edge, Hit By Rapidly...
It's perched on the very edge of the solar system, and new data is the strangest yet For at least a year now, NASA has been waiting with bated breath for Voyager 1 to pass through the boundary of our...
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