The latest innovation videos compiled for you.
The HoloFlex flexible smartphone can create 3D images simply by bending it at different angles, with no special glasses required.
The Glovdi rethinks the smartphone as a wearable glove, combining a smartphone, smartwatch and fitness monitor into one sleek and handy unit.
The Lego-compatible Brixo building blocks double as electric conductors, letting kids (and kids at heart) bring their constructions to life, safely and easily.
Zhenan Bao shares how research into electronic skin could one day give prosthetic limbs a sense of touch.
Astro Teller, the “Captain of Moonshots” for X, discusses the benefits of failure and how it helps spur innovation and success.
The eye-tracking VR headset from Fove VR could offer a new level of freedom and realism beyond any other VR headset currently on the market.
Psychologist Adam Grant discusses the habits of original thinkers, and offers some surprising similarities.
The Clarius Wireless Ultrasound Transducer brings ultrasound abilities to a smartphone, and could be used for nerveblocks or needle injections.
Meron Gribetz takes us on a virtual reality tour with the Meta 2 augmented reality headset, which could help keep tech users to interact with both their devices and each other in a more natural way.
The next generation Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics can navigate both outside and inside, and can even handle rather rude and annoying humans.
The 3D-printed Sneezometer can detect the early signs of respiratory disease by listening to the fluctuations in a person’s breath.
A new prediction tool from MIT relies on identifying wave cluster patterns to determine if a rogue wave is being developed, giving sailors a few minutes to prepare for the onslaught.
Drone developer Raffaello D'Andrea demonstrates autonomous flying machines that ask us to re-think what drones are capable of.
Auke Ijspeert discusses how building biologically inspired robots can also lead to a better understanding of our own body and biomechanics.
Sean Follmer, interactive designer and co-creator of inFORM discusses the future of shape-shifting technology and how it will change the way we work and collaborate.
The hoverbike from Malloy Aeronautics, is an individual flying quadcopter that may revolutionize the concept of flying.
Pardis Sabeti shows how open cooperation was the key to halting the recent Ebola virus attack, and to stopping the next outbreak.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop project is edging closer to reality with endorsement from the US Secretary of Transportation and hints of government funding.
A flexible sensor developed by a team from UC Berkeley detects and measures key chemicals in the wearer’s sweat in real time to track their physical state during exercise.
As the U.S.’s voting machines continue to slide into disrepair, the ClearCast precinct voting unit offers a more advanced, accurate, and longer-lasting alternative.
Designed by a team of team of neurosurgeons and engineers and two years in the making, the VICIS Zero1 football helmet aims to reduce the risk of injury with its specialized layers and custom fit.
Ideal for urban dwellers, the Leafy Green Machine from Freight Farms delivers a complete farming setup in a convenient shipping container.
The Livin Farms desktop hive lets people grow their own edible insects at home in a sanitary and controlled environment.
Created by the aerospace company Arca, the ArcaBoard steps into the ring as the world’s first actual hoverboard, able to float and cruise over any surface.
Chieka Asakawa, who has been blind since she was fourteen, discusses the new technologies that aid the visually-impaired, and how designing for accessibility benefits everyone.
Just in time for holiday travels, seventeen-year-old Raymond Wong illustrates how airborne diseases travel on airplanes, and offers a simple solution to stop them.
Danit Peleg discusses her vision of the future of fashion, when people can design and print their clothes at home using 3D printers—and even shows off a few of her own creations.
In order to perform much more exact and optimal surgeries, physicians and biomedical engineers teamed up with Stratasys to create a 3D replica of the patient’s brain vessel anatomy.
Researchers at Tufts University are teaching robots to reject orders from humans by saying “no” to commands that could cause them harm.
The Spencer robot helps airline passengers navigate large and complex airports, helping to reduce the costs associated with passengers getting lost and missing their flights.
The Ferryboat inflatable boat sets up in minutes and can be used as a car ferry, pleasure cruiser and rescue boat.
The Snotbot drones from the Ocean Alliance collect whale snot safely and effectively, without disturbing the whale (or Patrick Stewart) in any way.
Being hailed as a significant step toward interactive self-levitating programmable matter, the flying BitDrones can swarm together to create a 3D, tactile user interface.
Harald Haas imagines an internet without wires, where data is sent via off-the-shelf LED lights, helping to close the internet divide by using existing infrastructure.
Tom Uglow shares his vision of an Internet without screen, where humans can access and share information in more natural and tactile ways.
Adam Feinberg of Carnegie Mellon discusses the new 3D printing technology that could one day eliminate the need for transplants to repair damaged organs.
Vijay Kumar discusses the future of autonomous aerial robots, and how working with swarms could lead to Precision Farming and improve First Response in emergencies.
Inspired by the structure of the human bone, Boeing's new microlattice is the lightest metal yet—made up 99.99 percent air yet strong enough to be used for building planes and spacecraft.
Siddhartha Mukherjee discusses the future of medicine—when diseases will be treated with a cell instead of with a pill.
The Fused Reality System puts the flight-training simulator inside the actual aircraft, allowing pilots practice difficult, simulated tasks under real flying conditions.
The ambulance drone from TU Delft can fly up to 100 km per hour, delivering a defibrillator and other lifesaving supplies in minutes and significantly increasing the victim’s chance of recovery.
The ICON A5 is a personal plane for the average consumer, able to take off from land or water and fold small enough to fit in a garage.
Kevin Stone of Aperion Biologics discusses the Z-lig tendon system, a unique technique of using animal tissue to help facilitate ACL joint replacement surgeries.
A new 3D printer from the MIT Mediated Matter Group able to print objects using molten glass could open the door to an exciting array of transparent design potentials.
Disaster robotics engineer Robin Murphy discusses her rescue robots, and how they can make a disaster go away faster.
In an effort combat the ongoing drought in California, officials have launched millions of plastic “shade balls” into a 175-acre groundwater reservoir.
Patience Mthunzi discusses her radical idea of curing HIV by using lasers to deliver medication inside the infected cells.
The ultra-smart, Bluetooth-equipped, 3D-printed BoomCast not only conforms to the needs of the individual, it also tracks healing and sends updates the patient’s physician.
