Bike with Integrated Lock

This bike is meant to answer all those times when you have forgotten to bring a lock. In fact the bike IS a lock and is called the "Freelock".
This bike has a lock integrated into the seat post. It is made of sturdy metal and is still relatively light.

Electric Concept Car

Industrial designer Alan Kravchenko has created a concept for a compact urban commuter dubbed the Peugeot Clear.
The Clear has enough room for two at a squeeze and is laid bare by large windows that, without heavy tinting, leave just about everything going on inside open to plain view.
The design is green-friendly by way of an electric drivetrain. It incorporates hydrogen and oxygen fuel tanks positioned so as to provide most efficiency to the wheel-mounted motors.

Completely Self-Contained, Portable Ultrasound

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has just approved a handheld self-contained portable ultrasound imager with a probe.
The Signos weighs half of a pound and is the size of most smartphones. It will be available with both a 3.5MHz or a 7.5MHz transducer that can be swapped. The company promotes this device for fast paced and active medical environments such as emergency departments and rural medical clinics.
The system might come in handy as a quick initial diagnostic modality for intraabdominal processes, such as ectopics, AAAs, for carotid scans in ER in patients with ongoing TIA, as well as an assistive device for central line placements.

HIV Vaccine Turns Muscle into Antibody Factories

Nine macaques have been protected against the monkey version of HIV with a novel vaccine that sidesteps the monkey immune system. Instead, the vaccine turns monkey muscles into factories for churning out antibodies.
Researchers injected the monkeys' muscles with a harmless virus carrying genes for making immunoadhesins, antibody-like molecules pre-selected to attack SIV.
The viruses put the genes into the nuclei of muscle cells, which produce antibodies that combat HIV, potentially indefinitely.

Unbreakable Sunglasses

The Fisk sunglasses have a number of innovative elements. First, they have a completely adjustable nose bridge. Second, the hinge is made of surgical stainless steel and built with a Metal Injection Molding process which makes it essentially unbreakable.
The Global Fit nose bridge is structural nylon covered with soft, low porosity silicone. Two stainless steel pins with eccentric heads are inserted into the frame. As these pins are turned, the angle of the bridge turns in or out for a custom to-your-face fit.

Pico Mobile Projector

The KDDI pico projector is designed to work with the new KDDI iida G9 mobile phone. It can project a 480x320 image of between six and 63 inches onto a flat surface or wall up to 8.2 feet (2.5m) away.

The battery provides for up to 130 minutes of continuous viewing and can be fully charged in less than two hours.
The pico projector is made for showing off holiday video and snaps stored on the phone and measures just 50×112×18.3mm and weighs 128g.

An Anti-Smoke Alarm

This device is meant to help you avoid getting on a ladder and taking the batteries out of your smoke alarm when you accidentally set it off.
The "Smokey" hosts an XBee chip that communicates wirelessly with the smoke alarm. So when the alarm goes off, you just need to press his hand to temporarily silence it until the smoke clears.
It also works as a conventional kitchen timer.

Violin That Teaches You How To Play

The violin has a very steep learning curve, and this is an innovative instrument that has the ability to help.
Designer Carlos R. Mendez has created a violin called the Squidolin. It's an electric violin that works just like a normal violin, except that you can also connect it to a television set and it will tutor you through a series of lessons via it's built-in software.

Air-powered Battery

Researchers at Scotland's University of St. Andrews are reporting great progress in their work on the air-powered battery, which is being designed to replace the lithium cobalt oxide electrode in the fuel cell.
The "STAIR" (St. Andrews Air) battery will run on all renewable sources, including solar, wind, and oxygen.
Within the next five years we could see electric cars that can run far longer on one charge than on a tank or two of gas. Your computer and cell phone batteries could last for several days without charging... while they are in use.

Phone Camera identifies objects for the Blind

iVisit has developed image recognition software that can identify what a cell phone camera is seeing, and read it for a blind person.
The software can identify such things as bill denominations and product labels.

New Treatment for Knee Injuries

MIT engineers have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into knees and other joints, potentially offering a more effective, less expensive – and painful – option to more conventional therapies.
The scaffold developed by MIT has two layers, one that mimics bone and another that mimics cartilage. When implanted into a joint, the scaffold can stimulate mesenchymal stem cells in the bone marrow to produce new bone and cartilage.
The researchers demonstrated the scaffold's effectiveness in a 16-week study involving goats. In the study, the scaffold successfully stimulated bone and cartilage growth after being implanted in the goats' knees. Although the technology is still limited to small defects, using scaffolds roughly 8 mm (0.3-inches) in diameter, the scaffold offers a potential new treatment for sports injuries and other cartilage damage, such as arthritis.

Memo Personal Robot

The Memo is a robot designed to provide secondary care for Alzheimer's patients. The fingerprint-secure remote control controls it's various functions, such as schedule planning, dispensing medicine and playing games.
Memo also has a video projector and can call emergency professionals when urgent care is needed.

The Hospital on Wheels

Mercedes-Benz have developed "clinic buses" for the Government of Dubai. These mini-hospitals on wheels were developed so rapid medical assistance can be given in the event of major emergencies.
Of the three observation bays in the bus, one can be converted into a fully-functioning operating theatre. The buses are equipped with an ECG, an InSpectra shock monitor, an x-ray machine and ultrasonic equipment.
The buses can also be equipped with storage units containing generators, tents for the treatment of more injury victims, decontamination systems and an oxygen concentrator.

Nanoenergy Battery

A company called Front-Edge Technology has developed ultra-thin bendable battery technology which can deliverbetween 10 and 20 times more power than conventional batteries.
The flexibility of these "Nanoenergy" batteries makes them ideal for portable devices. Theese new batteries can also be manufactured in different shapes and in sizes that can be thinner than a sheet of paper.
Front-Edge Technology claims that the special characteristics of their batteries also make them ideal for micro power devices such as one-time-password smartcards, battery-assisted RFID tags, wireless sensor networks and medical applications such as hearing aids and heart-monitoring devices.

The Honda Hovercar

The Honda Fuzo is a Vertical Take-Off and Landing concept vehicle. The Fuzo has four high-powered turbines for high-speed horizontal flight and directional control.
The vehicle has a top speed of 350 mph and two joysticks on wither side of the armrest to control speed, trust, and steering.
It also features an automatic collision-detection system that relies on GPS to keep cars from hitting one another and also airbags on the inside and outside of the vehicle for safety.

Robot with Artificial Skin

A new New robot with artificial skin could help improve human communication. The project, worked on by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire, has developed this technology so that it can be used in their work investigating how robots can help children with autism to learn about social interaction.
The researchers have covered a robot with artificial skin and will develop new sensor technologies which can provide tactile feedback from areas of the robot’s body. The idea is to make the robot able to respond to different styles of how the children play with it. This could help the children develop ‘socially appropriate’ playful interaction when interacting with the robot and other people.
Roboskin is being co-ordinated by Professor Giorgio Cannata of Università di Genova (Italy) and other partners include Università di Genova, Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne, Italian Institute of Technology, University of Wales at Newport and Università di Cagliari.

New Discoveries at Mercury

Mercury's magnetic field is "alive." Volcanic vents ring the planet's giant Caloris Basin. And Mercury has shrunk in on itself more than previously suspected.
These are just a few of the new discoveries by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which flew past Mercury on January 14, 2008. The results are described in a series of 11 papers published in a special July 4th issue of Science magazine.
Six of the papers in Science report studies of the planet's surface--its colors, mineralogy, and the shape of its terrain. For instance, the color enhanced image below reveals evidence of volcanic vents along the margins of Caloris basin, one of the Solar System's largest and youngest impact basins:
"By combining Mariner 10 and MESSENGER data, the science team was able to reconstruct a comprehensive geologic history of the entire Caloris basin interior," says James Head of Brown University, lead author of one of the Science reports. "The basin was formed from an impact by an asteroid or comet during a period of heavy bombardment in the first billion years of Solar System history. As with the lunar maria, a period of volcanic activity followed, producing lava flows that filled the basin interior. This volcanism is responsible for the comparatively light, red material of the interior plains intermingled with [newer] impact crater deposits."
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Anti-microbial Paint Kills Superbugs

Scientists in South Dakota have developed the first antimicrobial paint, a material that can simultaneously kill not just disease-causing bacteria but mold, fungi, and viruses.
The paint is especially effective at fighting "superbugs," the antibiotic-resistant microbes that infect hospital surfaces and cause an estimated 88,000 deaths annually in the US.
The researchers developed a new antimicrobial polymer which has no undesirable effects on the quality of latex paints. Laboratory tests showed that the new polymer kills a wide range of disease-causing microbes including those resistant to multiple antibiotics. The paint can be easily "recharged" with a simple chlorination process.

Generating Electricity from Moving Vehicles

A company called New Energy Technologies, Inc. has designed a system called MotionPower which can trap kinetic energy drivers generate simply by driving over an energy-capturing device on the road.
The MotionPower system is designed to be installed at high traffic locations such as tollbooths, traffic intersections, rest areas, travel plazas, restaurant and bank drive-thrus, border crossings, and neighborhoods with traffic calming zones.
New Energy engineers have built and tested the first prototype, and are working to optimize the efficiency of the system that can potentially produce energy from the 250 million vehicles on the road in the US.

Inventive Reading Glasses

These LED Light Reading Glasses or inventive reading glasses have ultra-bright LED lights built into each corner of the lens frame. In the frame are four batteries that power the glasses for up to 30 hours.
These glasses have an edge over small book-lights as they do not move or fall out of place and don't have to be moved every time a page is turned.
These headlamp-in-glasses are also useful for using a computer keyboard at night and also for finding things in small, dark places.