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The MorpHex by Zenta is a hexapod that can roll as well as walk and change shape. Reminded me of the Golden Wheel spider that can curl up and roll out of danger… More information on MorpHex on Hackaday. Zenta has a previous hexapod design currently for s...

Electronic Hungry Hungry Hippos for iPad. An AppToy too far. From thinkgeek. Happy April’s Fools.

A wickerwork brain? 3D brain structure of intersecting planes of inter-woven nerve fibres. Using diffusion spectrum MRI, which maps nerve fibres by tracking the movement of water molecules, suggests that the brain consists of a three-dimensional grid of f...

iPhone accelerometer control over HTML5 browser game. Data is pushed form iOS to a nodejs server which serves the game in your desktop browser. Node.js is a server-side JavaScript environment based on Google’s V8 Javascript engine. Based on Socket.IO, Nod...

ChronoZoom is ‘Google Earth’ for time. ChronoZoom is a zoomable timeline the universe’s existence, a joint project between Microsoft Research, the University of California, Berkeley, and Moscow State University in Russia. The navigation needs a some smoot...

Autonomous co-operating flying robots that swarm and co-operate using local and decentralised control. Presented at TED2012 by Vijay Kumar and his team at the University of Pennsylvania. One example uses Kinect camera and 3D scanner to build maps of newly...

Pop-up ‘origami’ microrobotic ‘Monolithic Bee’ is amazing. Uses laser-cut 18 layer laminate of varying materials to create the body, actuators and assembly scaffold that cunningly folds the dragonfly-like robot into shape with the use of tiny printed hing...

Two DIY Geiger counters using smartphone. Radiation-watch.org produces a low cost ($46) sensor from photodiodes and foil that plugs into the headphone socket. pachube helps aggregrate citizens’ readings to crowdsource radiation maps such as Japan Geigerma...

Google Street View goes sub-marine with panoramic mapping of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  Google, the University of Queensland and sponsor Catlin Group aim to start mapping for real in September 2012 with specially designed mini submarines that contai...

Fungi clock 180,000g - fastest airborne accelerators on Earth! Anything to get away from cow poo it seems. Simply osmotic pressure is used to provide these accelerations which, if provided to a human would send them travelling at “more than 5000 times the...

Kinetica Art Fair London 2012 - video and stills (by dylski)

Photo app gets rid of bystanders in your holiday snaps. “Remove, developed by Swedish photography firm Scalada, takes a burst of shots of your scene. It then identifies the objects which are moving - based on their relative position in each frame. These...

Personal indoor AR ‘sat nav’ using phone projector. This prototype system guides the user with arrows and information projected onto surfaces in the environment with the additional help of 4 compass chips and a pre-computed map of the building’s internal ...

3D printer provides woman with a brand new jaw. In this operation, a 3D printed titanium scaffold was steeped in stem cells and allowed to grow biocompatible tissue inside the abdomen of the recipient. No detail was spared: it even had dimples and cavi...

Contact lenses let you see AR on lightweight glasses, in development by Innovega. A ‘special filter’ in the lens enables the eye to focus on projected wide field of view megapixel images projected on the inside of the glass, whilst not impairing your abil...