We love our smartphones. Let’s face it: we use our smartphones everyday, and when we don’t have them we feel like we’ve lost a limb. Maybe even two or three. Is it bad? Some would say so. But we’re connected to the world, and to dozens–if not hundreds or thousands–of resources all at once. With …

To all of the men out there: what if you could literally turn on or off your fertility with the flick of a switch? Bimek SLV has come up with a solution: a literal “sperm switch.” When it comes to birth control, much of the responsibility seems to fall on women. Even with a wider …

Can’t understand your grandparents? Do you get frustrated by the senior citizens who move at a snail’s pace? Can’t get over all of their annoying issues, aches and pains? Well, perhaps you need a little time in Genworth’s “age simulation” suit. No, this isn’t an Iron Man-esque suit that gives you the ability to leap …

Babies cry. A lot. Unless you’re some kind of super nanny/child-rearing savant/baby whisperer, baby cries are indecipherable. For those of us who need a helping hand, there’s a wonderful app called the “Infant Cries Translator.” Developed by Taiwanese researchers Chang Chuan-Yu and pediatrician Dr. Chen Si-Da from the National Taiwan University Hospital Yunlin, the Infant …

Forget driverless cars. Researchers in China have begun work on cars that can be driven with nothing but our minds. Hailing from Nankai University in Tianjin, China, the team have been working on a car that only requires a driver and signal-reading equipment to drive. With gear that includes 16 EEG sensors, the technology can …

There’s an odd disconnect between the older and younger generations nowadays. There are small children who pick up glossy magazine covers and find it weird that they can’t enlarge the images by pinching their thumb and forefingers together and then sliding them away from each other. You have adults who are happy that they’re finally …

You’ve seen it everywhere around the interwebs, all around the net, especially on YouTube: “Real life lightsaber!” “Lightsaber in real life!” “Real Life Jedi!” (and every other combination you can think of). Which usually brings with it green or blue-lit flashlights, hacked laser pointers, choreographed CGI battles and more). But YouTube user Sufficiently Advanced has …

An earthquake-proof bed. If it sounds like make-believe, then it is. Or, at least, it was, until Chinese inventor Wang Wenxi patented the idea five years ago in 2010, and recently released an update on her plans. It goes without saying: earthquakes can be disastrous and devastating. In some places they’re no more than harmless tremors. …

Superman has it, and nearly everyone has probably had a time when they wanted it, too. X-Ray vision. Who wouldn’t want that for Christmas? The ability to see through walls. It’s something that has been reserved for fantasies and science fiction, until now. Researchers at MIT have found a way to use variations in radio …

Any psychics, mediums and ghost whisperers who read this, be warned: neuroscientists believe they’ve found both the cause of why people “feel spirits” and “presences,” and how to replicate it in a laboratory. Led by lead author Olaf Blanke, director of the Center for Neuroprosthetics at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland (EPFL), scientists …