VIDEOThe creators of the Patterned by Nature sculpture at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have released the making of video showing their process of prototyping and installation.

Franco Recchia uses recycled computer parts to create miniature city skylines.

Peugeot's Onyx concept car will debut at Paris motor show later this month. The car is made from carbon fiber, copper, and even paper wood. It is powered by a 680hp diesel hybrid engine.

Apple announces the iPhone5 which sports a 4in retina display with 1136x640 resolution, an 8mp camera with a new sensor, and the A6 chip making it much faster. It is also thinner and lighter than previous iPhones.

Skatepath, a collaborative and artistic approach for visualizing covered distances by skating, from Moritz Resl and Paul Sommersguter.

New Limited Edition Needle Lamp by Vitamin. Visit their stand (F58) at Design Junction, The Sorting Office, New Oxford Street, London 19th-23rd September to see all the new releases

Mindblowing. Johann Korndoerfer seriously rendered a giant(!) version of the Buddhabrot.

Stylo is a minimalist design bluetooth headset created by cutting off short pieces of aluminum tubing for the housing. By Japan-based designer Nendo.

VIDEOStreetpong is a concept about playful urban interactions by Sandro Engel and Holger Michel.

FEATUREDRobots bend steel (see video!) to create this space engulfing structure in the Australian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Beautiful piece by Supermanoeuvre and Matter Design Studio.

FEATUREDProjection Mapping used to show movement and the way lighting changes throughout the day on the Cloud 9 architectural model in Spain Lab at the Venice Biennale. See the video of it in action!

FEATUREDI-City in the Russian Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale is a complete mind trip to wander around in... endless matte black backlit QR codes make up the walls, floors, and ceilings to be viewed with Samsung tablets.

VIDEONearly 50 quadrocopters took the sky during the Klangwolke celebration of the Ars Electronica Festival. Made by the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies GmbH, the result is mesmerizing!

Foundation is a laptop stand made of concrete. There's space for a 13" laptop, a hard disk, cell phone and other gadgets. It's somewhere between architecture, design and geekery.

FEATUREDAl Aire in the Spain Lab set up at the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale. This plant growing structure is built to optimize resources, lead the roots right where you want them, and you can have a floating garden anywhere!

FEATUREDMercedes-Benz's latest artwork, Aesthetics S ~ this time there is a relief sculpture coupled with projection mapping to bring it to life! (It will take you from previous S models to the design process to tease the new form)

FEATUREDSneak Peek! The Free Universal Construction Kit from Golan Levin and NOTlabs' own Shawn Sims is now on display at Ars Electronica Festival in the OK CyberArts12 Exhibition opening tomorrow! See the full set and fun toy mashups!

Activision's Call of Duty Black Ops II Care Package comes with a "Remote Controlled Quadrotor Drone and Stand"!!! as well as a bunch of other goodies.

Hard to believe its real - the website of the Milwaukee Police Department, as created by Cramer-Krasselt, is so beautifully designed, at first i almost thought it was for a video game...

The Stealth Electric Bikes. With a top speed of 45mph, this has to be the fastest, most bad-ass way to go Green. An electric bike that the Dark Knight wouldn't be embarrassed to use.

VIDEOiTypewriter by Austin Yang allows you to type on your iPad with a typewriter that has been specifically designed for the size and screen. A little slow, but still cool.

FEATUREDUnboxing the HTC One S ~ current phone favorite over at NOTCOT! Also, take a peek at some of my favorite UI details! The world clock is beautiful!

VIDEORobot Chef that makes sliced noodles is appearing all over noodle shops in china...

Adorable Firefox for Android video ~ great illustrations in this animation!

VIDEOAIRarm - Inflatable Robot Manipulator Arm (AIR = Advanced Inflatable Robotics) by iRobot for DARPA

Black & Decker is going MODULAR with their new power tool - Matrix tool system consists of main unit containing a handle, motor and battery, to which the user connects: drill, impact driver, oscillating multi-tool, jigsaw, sander, router and circular saw.

Evernote + Moleskine for a special "smart notebook"... I like that it cleans up scribbled pages for digitizing... also interesting.. the smart stickers it can recognize? (why not have special scribbled notations?)

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia designed and fabricated the Endesa Pavilion. Optimally oriented for the charging of solar cells, with no direct sunlight in summer. Prefabricated in chunks and assembled on site.

Ring Rolling is a forging method for producing large steel cylinders or rings. The process is mesmerizing!

The 2012 FIRA RoboWorld Cup in Bristol, UK will host 26 teams from around the world and all the robots that come with them. The 5 day event has a variety of events, but the soccer matches are classic.

The FCC has released an interactive map displaying the latest broadband data speeds. If you are an internet junkie, perhaps this will help you decide where to move next...

The new Logitech washable keyboard. No more excuses for a dirty keyboard.

VIDEOMusical artist Alfred Weisberg-Roberts, aka Daedelus, performs on stage in front of this kinetic sculpture with tiled mirrors. This is a sneak peak into his stage setup for future performances.

Honda has revealed Miimo, their new autonomous lawn mower. It will cut your yard in designated patterns and when done, return back to its charging station.

VIDEOA demonstration of Aerofex's Tandem-Duct Aerial, a hoverbike using a ducted-fan.

Jawbone Jambox REMIX!~ You can now pick the color/pattern combination of your choice!

Media artist Chris Salter's light and sound installation 'n-Polytope' at LABoral in Gijon, Spain.

Normalize App by Joe Macirowski is the anti-instagram, undoing all those vintage filters (or unvintaging actual vintage pics!)

VIDEOStanford's autonomous racecar is a Audi TTS named Shelley and can go 120mph on California's Thunderhill Raceway.

Cameras and sensors suctioned on the backs of humpback whales to create 3D models of their movements (and amazing bubble nets!) by Research Scientists from Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary

Super cool modern Arcade! by Tom Goodfellow.

A huge infograph that show the last 50 years of space exploration. This incredible infographic was created by Sean McNaughton and Samuel Velasco for National Geographic.

VIDEOResearchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a camera that captures images at one trillion frames per second, so fast it is capable of detecting light travel!

Molecule Synth is a unique musical instrument that is made of assembled elements: speaker/amp, sound generator, and pitch control. The way you build the elements determines the way the instrument plays and interacts.

Harvard chemists + materials scientists recently developed colorful camouflage for spineless robots that move like squid, starfish and worms.

VIDEOFlight Forms is a project that simulates drone flight with robotarms at the Sci-Arc Robot House. The flight behaviour of the quadrotor is used to program the motion logic for the 6 axis robotarm.

FEATUREDFrom our Free Universal Construction Kit, to the Solar Sinter, to Ideogenetic Machine that puts you into a comic, to beautiful animation and more... Ars Electronica Festival 2012! Here are the projects we're really looking forward to!

This is a timeline of the history of computer graphics ranging from original research at IBM to the newest work from Pixar.

Scratch-n-sniff food postcards! A food printer captures your image & scent then prints it out as a food postcard.

Gerber Steady Tool - equipped with an adjustable cell phone suction cup, screw-in camera mount and two foldable legs that serve as a tripod.

LuminAID is the world's first inflatable solar light. It can be used for emergency relief or a camping lantern.

Dyson DC44 Animal ~ the latest update of the Dyson Handhelds (my favorite of the line that we use at NOTCOT all the time!)

This full color 50x50 micron image has 100,000 dots per inch resolution. Each pixel in these ultra-resolution image is made up of four nanoscale posts capped with silver and gold nanodisks and the distance between them determines the color.

VIDEOOyster Ring - Dhani Sutanto puts the RFID chip and antenna from an Oyster Card into a resin ring.

VIDEOMIT’s Robust Robotics Group makes an autonomous robotic plane and demonstrates its capabilities by flying through a parking garage at over 20mph without hitting anything.

Plasma Nightlight!

VIDEOThe _para_meter is a mobile device created by the innovation lab of Milla & Partner. The _para_meter will allow visitors of IdeenPark 2012 to connect with the digital world.

VIDEOMassimo Banzi, the creator of Arduino, shares a behind the scenes experience into what speaking at TED Global is like. (From what you get in gift bags, to where you can stand, to the hotel room and more!)

Richard Branson's Necker Nymph is an underwater ‘aircraft’ that takes exploration under the sea to a whole new level. It can go down to as deep as 30 meters below the surface and can travel at speeds of up to 6 knots underwater.

Lapka is personal environment monitor that connects with your phone to measure, collect and analyze the hidden qualities of your surroundings. It measured the invisible world of particles, ions, molecules and waves.

VIDEOGocen is a handwritten notation interface for musical performance and learning. The device lets you interpret written musical notation and play instruments simultaneously by converting the written notes into a playable sound.

Just spotted at Siggraph - DIYlilCNC just introduced the DIY CNC machine 2.0. This version gets bigger and better, allowing you to mill larger pieces faster.

VIDEOFound the Shader Printer at Siggraph... lasers activate thermochromic ink, allowing the designer to color and draw on any 3d shape, and freeze it to erase and start over! Imagine the custom toy/commitment-phobe possibilities!

Amazon Lockers ~ instead of having things shipped to you, these have been popping up in grocery stores/drugstores/etc where you can pick up your package.

FEATUREDBotanicus Interacticus by Disney Research at Siggraph. Turning plants into interactive sensors, demonstrated by their beautiful booth, letting you caress, grab, and poke their plants, creating visualizations in the magic mirror.

VIDEOAura is living interface that uses plants to control a lamp inside. Developed by german based designer Viktor Kölbig.

TheCoolist visits the Farm of the Future: Green Sky Growers, a high-tech, software-driven living ecosystem just outside of Orlando, FL.

FEATUREDToy Hack! This Project Squadt K11 Boomer by Ferg is now a functioning spy camera! The latest from NOTlabs, see the making of and video of it in action.

VIDEOThe Stone Spray Project by IAAC students Petr Novikov, Inder Shergill and Anna Kulik and is a robotic arm that 3d prints sand with a special water and adhesive mix.

SLIPS (Self-healing, Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surface), a synthetic material that utilizes nano/ microstructured substrates, capable of repelling just about anything you can throw at it. Created at Harvard's Wyss Institute.

VIDEORacing In Slow Motion IV is the 4th in the series. The details that the video reveals are amazing and offer a whole new view on the world of racing.

FEATUREDThe mini radio controlled MINIs at the Olympics ~ deliver/retrieving a single hammer, discus or shot or two javelins. All the details from BMW, and times we've spotted them on tv!

Sine Series - Beautiful generative design items by Clement Zheng Zhihan.

VIDEO2yr old Emma had a condition called arthrogryposis, which meant she couldn't move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3D printed a durable custom exoskeleton with the tiny, lightweight parts she needed.

Roto-A-Matic: Rotofugi has brought a 1960's vending machine back to life. It "creates for you a plastic toy right in front of your eyes" - in this case, Tim Biskup's the Helper Dragon which is 4.5 inches of blow-molded polyethylene art!

Emergency food kit for Refugees in Dadaab-Africa that would help them to grow their own insects as food.

The full face mask Pixelhead acts as media camouflage, completely shielding the head to ensure that your face is not recognizable on photographs taken in public places without securing permission.

Mini Cooper R/C cars are being used for javelin and discus retrieval in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Mini Minis!

The Oculus Rift VR Headset is a wide angle virtual reality display designed specifically for gaming.

Hexaphone amplifier iPhone by L'edito.

FoldaRap ~ the 3D printer you can fold/pack flat into a briefcase!

The Harbin Institute of Technology in China have created this robot that can both walk and jump on water.

Paparazzo Light for iPhone 4, 4S, and "5". The Paparazzo is a simple iPhone accessory that gives your photos and videos just the right light at just the right time.

Gizmodo takes a look at the evolution of Apple's favorite typefaces...

BMW announces the HP4, the lightest motorcycle to date in the 1000cc class.

Icecream meets neuroscience in this installation by jellymongers and food architects Bompas and Parr, where your surroundings change according to your reaction to what you're eating.

Assembly by Kimchi and Chips is an installation of 5,500 physical pixels illuminated by digital projection.

VIDEOLight Form by Mathieu Rivier is a surface with multi-touch visualizations. The result is a simple, yet powerful interaction with the 3d surface.

Awesome posters from tiles by Stamen and OpenStreetMap data. You can generate one for any location - open street posters.

Applied Works web-based app for EDF shows how much energy is being used at London 2012 Olympic venues.

Icon visits the shipyard of Italian speedboat-makers Riva Boats and muses on the relationship of art and luxury.

TP2 radio dinamo plays music, generates energy. Interesting conceptual design project by Guillermo Callau.

VIDEOThe Associated Press brings robotic cameras to the 2012 London Olympics. Developed by Fabrizio Bensch and Pawel Kopczynski the 11 high-tech rigs will enable all new shots from this years games.

The Wrap mirrors the prongs on the iPhone charger - making it easy to store the charging cable.

Tûranor Planet Solar - The largest solar-powered catamaran in the world.

Sydney-now is a highly addictive real-time visualization tool displaying all the photos as it happens within Sydney-Australia on Instagram.

The Ikea catalogue is getting an interactive overhaul, with added augmented reality.

UCLA develop visibly transparent solar cell. Soon all our windows may generate free energy.

Interesting to see adidas and Major League Soccer today announcing that MLS will integrate the adidas micoach Elite System league-wide in 2013, marking the world's first "smart league." ~ a networked system of the micoach technology.

Molecule Water Café in New York's East Village serving filtered and purified NYC tap water. Yes, really.

Photographer Anthony Dickenson looks inside an Aircraft Carrier factory.

Designing the Audio Dock Air: an interview with John Sundermeyer.

VIDEOThe design shop Breakfast made an electromagnet dot display for TNT's launch of Perception. You can solve anagrams like the show's main character interactively ~ wave your arms/body to clear the letters!

Presenting the Oaxaca Case, redefining the typology of the briefcase through material and innovative production techniques.

Pajama Club - 3D - Interactive music promo captured using an Xbox Kinect.

Victor Johansson's Escape Jacket terminates phone connectivity instantly.

The BioMolecular Self-Assembly project is a collaboration between Skylar Tibbits, Arthur Olson and Autodesk Research. 500 custom glass self-assembly kits were distributed at TED Global 2012 in Edinburgh last month.

Thule Gauntlet MacBook Air Sleeves - Stitch-free, heat welded seams and an additional fold at the entry point create water-resistant defense!

Grifiti iPad Tripod Mount!

Squid Kids Ink's A-Drive ~ your old floppy disks gets reborn as a vinyl toy!

Nike’s incessant drive to push creative limits has resulted in their partnership with creatives at Hush and architecture firm Skylab for the creation of 'Camp Victory' at the Olympic Running Trials in Oregon.

Unfold Studio's 3D Printing Kiosk 2.0 ~ For the exhibition After the Bit Rush, Design in a Post-Digital Age. "Kiosk is a project that explores a near future scenario in which digital fabricators are so ubiquitous, that we see them appear on street corners"

Much like an old fashioned bank tube system ~ your donations are sucked up through the tubes triggering bells and whistles! Machine Project-style Cash Machine for New Children's Museum created by Tod E. Kurt, Carlyn Maw, and Mark Allen.

Wind Up Walkers ~ the wind up innards your 3D prints need to really get moving!

Using parametric models, Philadelphia-based design firm point b designed a private art gallery connecting to the owner's home. Many details were fabricated by the team themselves.

Prosthetic noses and mechanical hands at the Superhuman exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London.

FEATUREDNOTlabs Laser Project! The making of the Dumbrella San Diego Comic Con 2012 signage! See the full process from lasering to black metal pipes to SDCC and more...

The Economist wanders at Material ConneXion, NYC, in a library not of books but of innovative materials for designers.

Learn how NYC is turning payphones into free WiFi hotspots: 10 kiosks launched today.

The Cervélo P5 is the world's most aerodynamic triathlon and time-trial bike yet. It even has aero storage spaces in the frame for snacks.

Artist John O'Shea is creating a bio-engineered pig's bladder soccer ball.

blink(1) is a USB status light that allows you to set color, brightness and pattern for customizable alerts such as local temperature, incoming emails, computer status, and even program ones yourself.

OUYA is an Android powered gaming console for your TV. The system will have an open development platform and has a controller from the designer of the Jambox and the OLPC X-01 $100 laptop.

FEATUREDMophie Juice Pack Powerstation Pro - we put this rugged splash/dust proof USB external battery pack through the paces at Bonnaroo to charge iPhone and htc sensation

Calango, the creators of Typogami and Bianary 2.0, have formed Animography, a webshop/typefoundry that provides motion designers with animated typefaces.

Diesel Sweeties SDCC Special - limited number of DIESEL SWEETIES 3000 limited run Red Robot thumb drives filled with ebooks and an even more limited set of ten Black Death Editions.

FEATUREDLASERS!!! Uncrating of NOTlabs' Rabbit Laser 80-1290. From 1100 pound crate into the house, it packs an 80 watt laser and a workbed of nearly 4'x3'... see the details and setup!

Touch Skin is the ultimate digital accessory – A touch sensitive watch that combines tradition and transcendence via classic minimalist analogue watch design. OLED touch screen and downloadable, customizable skins.

Square Register is a minimalist design created by American-based designer Tinkering Monkey. The design was conceived for the use of small-business owners in conjunction with the iPad’s Square credit card reader.

University College Falmouth's 2012 3D Design graduates present Look and Sea, a diverse collection of design work using the latest augmented reality technology at New Designers.

FEATUREDOur Skateboard Ceiling Fan! A NOTlabs experiment ~ we got tired of the old fan, and decided to try out skateboards as fan blades!

What would it take to break a 2048 Bit SSL Certificate?

i3Lab's Clair de Lune, world's largest moonlight wall sticker, uses 65 individual frames of the lunar mosaic images taken from Nantes, France. By astronomy photographer Norbert.

Byron Rich has come up with an interactive bio-sculpture. Dubbed as Protista Imperialis, the sculpture is a strong statement on how we are degrading natural resources to nosh our selfish motives.

VIDEOResearchers from the University of Pennsylvania 3d print sugar templates that are later injected with blood vessels, creating working vascular networks.

VIDEOMercedes-AMG gives a virtual guided tour through the headquarters in Affalterbach, Germany where over 1000 employees design, engineer, and manufacture these high performance cars.

O. Update from Peter Krige at RCA is project that looks into the future of printable electronics and rapid manufacturing.

Distil Union's Snooze - The minimal wooden iPhone 4 alarm dock with big rubber snooze bar.

VIDEOA Colloid Display, this sonically controlled soap bubble could be the world's thinnest transparent display.

Canon has developed 'EOS-1D C', the world's first DSLR capable of capturing video in 4K (4096 x 2160-pixels) at 24p or in full HD at 60p.

FEATUREDPrint your own toys! We unbox the MakerBot Replicator and 3D print Free Universal Construction Kit toys ~ first up, connecting Lego and Lincoln Logs and Kinex and Lincoln Logs... and that's just the start!

Quadrotors at the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase 2012 by Marshmallow Laser Feast (Robin McNicholas, Memo Akten and Barnaby Steel) - Creative Applications takes us behind the scenes to how it was made!

The Point Grey Flea3 FL3-U3 line of the world’s smallest and fastest USB 3.0 cameras offers a variety of low-cost, high-speed, CMOS image sensors, ranging from 1.3 to 8.8 megapixel.

You change the speed of this fan by running your fingers along the pole base. Beautiful and simple work by Gerhardt Kellermann.