It’s a long road taking an idea from the R&D stage in a lab to successful commercialization, especially when you’re talking about technologies as complex and costly as robotics and artificial
Volocopter, the startup out of southern Germany (Bruchsal) that has been developing electric VTOL (vertical takeoff and landing) aircraft and a business model for operating them in taxi-style fleets i
Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft maker Volocotper has received a Design Organization Approval (DOA) from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). This is basically a rec
Twitter’s new prototyping app twttr, which it created to test and get feedback on new features — and new approaches to old features — has been out in the wild for a month. Now, wit
Airbus recently had the first ever successful flight of its Vahana autonomous air vehicle, and now it’s released video of that pivotal moment in the aircraft’s development. The flight took
Seems like just yesterday Airbus’ Vahana autonomous electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) craft was little more than a painted concept, but now it’s actually flown, during a full-s
Lucid Motors brought its alpha prototype of its first production luxury EV to CES 2017. There’s a small fleet of these early test cars, but the one that made it to Las Vegas is the one in full c
The Hyperloop isn't a new idea. In fact, the concept was so compelling that an engineer named <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mtechnology.net/index.htm">Stephen Fairfax</a> built one to carry phos
The <a HREF="http://www.yankodesign.com/2012/04/16/sticker-3d-vision/">Stix project</a> is just a concept now, but what a concept it is. It's essentially a way for glasses-wearers to enjoy 3D movies w
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It's not that tablets or similar devices with a back-side touch interface are a new idea. <a href="http://www
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EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from around the country. The inventions consist of variou
Yes, yes, yes. Check out this prototype from VIA. It’s a hybrid tablet PC netbook. The screen pops out of the main body and functions as an Android tablet and when docked back into the body R
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/shrekmp3_2.jpg"><a HREF="http://www.yankodesign.com/search/%22Sang-hoon+Lee%22">Designer Sang-hoon Lee</a> has designed these odd little
<img class="left" title="iphonepro" style="display:inline;" height="285" alt="iphonepro" src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/iphonepro.jpg" width="239" />Do you wish the iPhone h
Oh my. It’s this kind of stuff that makes it all worthwhile. I present to you an idea for a toaster that hooks up to your computer and can burn just about anything you throw at it onto the bread you
Hey everyone, Doug Aamoth here in Tokyo checking in on Panasonic’s “Eco Ideas” initiative. Here’s a video tour of a prototype house containing various environmentally-friendly and technologica
It’s like something out of a James Bond movie, if Bond were more of a hippie, but it’s cool. It’s a solar-powered speedboat, completely covered in solar panels to provide power. Usin
OLED screens are nice but small. Perfect for a notebook but impractical for, say, a television. This prototype of a laptop by Samsung has a keyboard that’s made me agitated just by looking at it
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