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A Simple Bracelet Can Turn Your Arm Into an Interactive Smartphone Display

With Cicret on your wrist, you'll never lose touch with your smartphone again. You wear it like a second skin.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

The ‘Paper’ Airplane to Rule Them All

Say hello to the slickest little high-tech eye in the sky.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Tech

These ‘Smart’ Ballet Shoes Digitally Paint Dancers’ Fancy Footwork

Art in motion, with a side of geek.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

The Fitting Room of the Future Has Arrived

One major retailer is testing out full-length dressing room mirrors that double as websites as tech invades yet another sphere of shopping.

By Phil Wahba

Tech

A Watch That Shoots Lasers? Yes, Please.

It isn't as cool as sharks with lasers on their heads, but it's pretty close.

By Jason Fell

Tech

Where to Stash That Cryptocash? This Man Put It Under His Skin.

Martijn Wismeijer keeps his Bitcoin handy -- right between his thumb and index finger.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

Virtual Reality Meets DIY With Samsung’s Project Beyond

Samsung has announced a 3-D, 360-camera that lets people record and create their own virtual reality worlds.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Europe Makes Space History as Probe Lands on Comet

This mission is the climax of a decade-long mission to get samples from what are the remnants of the birth of Earth's solar system.

By Reuters

Tech

VIDEO: Watch This Fearless Frenchman Laugh in the Face of Death on a Rocket-Powered Bicycle at 207 Miles Per Hour

If you like your bones, do NOT try this at home.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Tech

Gold? Silver? Pffft. This Necklace Is Pure Illumination.

This high-tech necklace is made out of light and morphs with your every move. You have to see it to believe it.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

Amazon Launches Echo, a Speaker You Can Talk To

This is a speaker you leave on all day and give it voice directions, like Siri on an Apple iPhone.

By Reuters

Tech

This ‘Smart’ Yoga Mat Has a Built-In Instructor

Pair the SmartMat with your phone and it can guide you through different yoga poses while monitoring your position and balance.

By Emily Price

Building a Business

Bat-Like Technology Is Giving the ‘White Cane’ a Much-Deserved Upgrade

These 'smart' canes use high-tech echolocation to help the visually impaired get around even better.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Tech

Google Is Developing an Ingestible Cancer-Detecting Pill

The idea is that nanoparticles will continuously monitor your body for disease triggers so they can be detected and treated as soon as they appear.

By Laura Entis

Tech

This Mighty Exoskeleton Can Give You Superhuman Strength (Sort Of)

Anyone who wears this rugged exosuit will be able to lift heavy tools and objects like they're feathers.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Tech

The U.S. Military Wants to Inject People’s Brains With Painkilling Nanobots That Could Replace Medicine

Ever wish you could heal yourself like a superhero? The government is making it happen. Sort of.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, It’s a Flying Car (Finally)!

Fasten your seat belts and forget about tray tables. This driving-flying machine is ready for takeoff.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Business News

This Smart Skin-Scanning App Could Save Your Life

Wonder if that mole that keeps morphing might be cancerous? This cool app can help you find out.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Tech

Hate Flying? This Dreamy (or Dorky) Virtual Reality Helmet Could Help You Escape the Experience.

Virtual reality, take me away. Because overpriced in-flight cocktails and noise-cancelling headphones aren't enough anymore.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow

Building a Business

Self-Healing Phones? Try Roads That Fix Themselves.

What if a road existed that never had a crack or a pothole? Science might have a solution.

By Jason Fell

Building a Business

Protect Your Privacy With These Strange Anti-Surveillance Frocks and Fashions

Big Brother is watching you, but you don't have to take it lying down. Don these stealthy countersurveillance frocks and styles to fool the all-seeing eye.

By Kim Lachance Shandrow