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Google’s Modular Smartphone Snaps Together Like Legos
Google

By 2017, you will be able to build your own phone.

Meet the World’s Lightest Metal. It’s 99.99% Air.
Robots and Machines

It's also extremely durable, and inspired by our own bones.

Fred the Tortoise Gets New Shell, Thanks to 3D Printing
3D Printing

After having most of his shell burnt off, 3D printing gave Fred a second chance.

Vibranium: Hyperloop Pods Will be Made From Super-Light “Smart Skin” That’s 10X Stronger Than Steel
Hyperloop

It's 10 times stronger and 5 times lighter than steel (it's even 1.5 times lighter than aluminum).

Can an Artificial Intelligence Create Art? Google’s Making an AI To Find Out
Google

The art that inspires you tomorrow might be made by robots.

Meet Pepper the Robot: Pizza Hut’s Newest Crew Member
Artificial Intelligence

Want some pizza? Pepper the robot will be the one taking your order.

India Successfully Launches Tiny Reusable Space Shuttle
Off-World

India is now officially in the reusable rockets game.

SkinTrack Lets You Use Your Arm as a Touchscreen Interface
Future Society

Now, you can turn your flesh into a touchscreen.

Prosthetics and Devices

For the first time in history, we can engineer our future on the most basic and fundamental level: DNA

Bid Accepted! eBay Launches The First Virtual Reality Department Store
Virtual Reality

eBay and Myers say it's all powered by you...and a virtual reality headset called "Shopticals."

Wikkelhouse is The Affordable Cardboard House That Lasts for 50+ Years
Robots and Machines

The future of housing could be in the hands of the most unlikely material—cardboard.

MIT Tech Make It Possible To 3D Print Ultra-fine Programmable Hair
3D Printing

Responsive jewelry, customized paint brushes, gearless motors...all thanks to tiny 3D printed hair.

Airbus Patents New High-Speed Helicopter
Future Society

This craft could become the fastest helicopter in the world.

Debating 101: If You Don’t Read Other’s Ideas, You’re Just Talking to Yourself
From Quarks to Quasars

Scottish Waters Will Host The World’s Largest Floating Wind Farm
Wind

The project, which will consist of five floating wind turbines and cost $4 billion, will be the largest of its kind in the world.

New Research Suggests Dark Energy Might be the Reason Time Runs Forward
Energy

The same force that's driving galaxies apart may be responsible for why time runs "forward" and not "backward."

The Age of CRISPR: Why You Shouldn’t Fear Gene Editing
Gene Editing

Thanks to CRISPR, we can edit the source code of life itself. Here's why that's not scary.

IMAX Is Opening Virtual Reality Experience Centers Worldwide
Virtual Reality

The world's most immersive movie experience is going to get a lot more real.

One Person’s Cancer Can Be Fought Using Someone Else’s Immune Cells, Study Finds
Science & Energy

The research shows that outsourcing cancer immunity to a donor is sound.

In a grim development, Indonesian officials say they've found debris from its Navy's missing submarine -- and its crew are now presumed dead.
Drones

Meet the tube-launched Blackwings.