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Resealable AdverCan Has Hidden MSG - Mini Billboards in a Pop (GALLERY)
Here's a neat advertising gimmick; a marketing company has launched new cans that contain hidden messages.
The resealable aluminum containers by Advercan look like totally normal soft drink cans... until the tab is popped to reveal the high-res graphic or message.
They were created by soft drink junkie, Johan De Broyer, a Ukrainian inventor who's constantly dreaming up new ways to sell pop. Advercan further developed his idea.
Aside from being a crazy marketing vehicle, they have cool functi…
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Let's start with the punch line. This lamp will last for 200 years if used 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. Oh, and it gets its power from gravity, so no extrenal power resources are needed. Does it get any greener than this? The Gravia, gravity lamp, by a Virginia Tech student won second place in th…
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'Gravity Lamp' Lasts 200 Years, No Plug-in - The Gravia
Welcome to the future of gaming! This video made me as giddy as a little girl. Gizmodo published an exclusive interview on 08, Feb, 2008 with the ridiculously gifted Andrew Fentem—who went from working on classified missile systems to developing multi-touch human interfaces, kinetic surfaces and m…
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Future of Gaming - World's First Multi-Touch Games Platform (VIDEO)
I am working in a the marketing department of a media company in Paris, France. Recently we were sitting in circle and discussing new advertising formats. One of the most interesting is a skate game made by Vans that you play with your fingers on an iPhone.
Fact #1 : this game is fun.
Fact #2 I lo…
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Marketing With the iPhone - Vans Skate Game
After four years of design and construction work, the world's largest structure -- Terminal 3 at the Beijing Capital International Airport--opens today, in time for the Olympic Games. Aside from the stunning roofscape, which integrates wayfinding in the orange, red and yellow interiors, this build…
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World Largest Building Opens Early - Foster and Partners Beijing Airport (GALLERY)
A massive problem for the homeless in San Francisco may have just been solved thanks to Google. The company is offering free lifetime phone numbers and voice mail for the homeless.
It gives those without a permanent residence a point of contact for government assistance and employer contact. This …
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Good-Doing Google - Homeless in SF Get Phone & Voice Mail
They should have this up in all waiting rooms in hospitals and offices. Philips Electronics introduced their Imagination Light Canvas— an interactive light wall that uses touch screen and Philips technologies to animate 1,420 LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights, at the new Mercy Medical Center in Ro…
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Paint with LED Light - Philips Imagination Light Canvas (GALLERY)
The centerpiece of the world's first zero-carbon city, Masdar City, has been designed by a Chicago area firm, Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill.
Its 1.4 million square feet will generate more energy than it consumes. It will cost $300,000,000 and will use the world's largest integrated solar power statio…
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Zero Carbon City - Smith & Gill Design For Masdar City (GALLERY)
Flat tires suck. We all know that. Even for those who are apt at changing their wheels themselves, it's never convenient to have to stop and get out. For those of us who aren't so auto savvy, it's a really miserable experience.
I think everyone who drives will appreciate Coda Development's new sel…
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Self-Inflating Tires - Coda Lets You Keep on Driving (GALLERY)
Like something straight out of the Jetsons, except the cars don’t fly, the new ULTRa is poised to be the latest advance in public transport systems. ULTRa, which stands for Urban Light TRansport, was developed by Advanced Transport Systems (ATS), Ltd., in association with the University of Bristol…
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Personal Transport Next Advance In Public Transportation - ULTRa Future Train (GALLERY)
The new iRiver Wing is a little UMPC with a browser, IM client, widget and SMS/MMs support as well VoIP and video conferencing capabilities, music play back and recording software and camera software. The iRiver has a 4 inch touch screen and full QWERTY keyboard but most important of all it is so ti…
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Tiny Ultra Mobile PC - The iRiver Wing (GALLERY)
News from the 1958: Driverless cars coming soon. News from 2008: Driverless cars coming soon. A bunch of engineers at Southwest Research Institute have cobbled together a bazillion dollars worth of gear to move a car through an obstacle course. Watch for the driverless car in your showrooms in 3018.
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Driverless Cars - Researchers Have Working Prototype
Not only does a heart transplant for people with weak, failing hearts involve the obvious risk of the transplant itself, it almost always involves taking anti-rejection drugs for life. Other alternatives include heart assist devices or even "artificial hearts", many of which come into direct contact…
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New Material Could Provide Alternative Heart Disease Treatment - Heart Assist Webbing
If you're into nerdy art forms, you'll surely appreciate this art installation.
In his project, Richard Box combined nature with science as he laid 1,301 fluorescent bulbs on a 3,600 square metre field, with nothing above it but power lines.
The lights, which look like a freshly harvested wheat …
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Magnetic Field Powers 1,301 Fluorescent Lights - Flickering FIELD by Richard Box (GALLERY)
If techies can have TWIT (This Week in Tech) Toasties should have This Week In Toast. Here are a collection of 15 fabulously ingenious toasters. From the hang on the wall "sunshine" model, to the single slicer that looks like an old eight track these toasters are not very useful, but pretty cool any…
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