VIDEOMechanical bird song from 1890, likely created by Blaise Bontems and restored by Michael Start of The House of Automata

FERRERO x COLETTE = Special set of a bluetooth/wired Nutella shaped speaker with 4 "Nutellini", adorable mini-jars of Nutella with colored lids

Karma, new kind of mobile provider featuring 'social bandwidth' - the more you share your hotspot, the more free data you earn!

VIDEOPortal! Reddit user Builderboy2005 has created the Ti-83/84 calculator version!

The 3DEA Pop-Up in NYC offers a hands-on experience in 3D printing as well as classes and demonstrations by a very helpful and informed staff, through December 27th.

Leonar3Do's Bird 3D mouse, an unusual triangulating mouse described as the world's first desktop VR kit.

Mutabor Lingua Digitalis App by Gestalten is a must if you have an iPad. A beautiful intro to how icons are made and how vector graphics work... also a fun way to browse their huge catalog of cheeky and adorably minimalist icons.

Artist Gustav Metzger hooked his brain up to a 3D-carving robot while he thought about nothing.

Algorithmic Design. Open source research in architecture, geometry and coding.

Trying to repair an IKEA lamp using his desktop 3D printer, Samuel Bernier got carried away and designed a whole collection of plastic lampshades.

FEATUREDMercedes-Benz Ener-G Force concept car. From stunning sketches (in polar, jungle, and desert scenes) to an epic teaser video... to the unveiling of the full sized model in Beverly Hills. It looks like a car for the Team Fortress/Rescue Heroes.

VIDEOThe official music video for Nosaj Thing's 'Eclipse/Blue' by Daito Manabe, takcom, Satoru Higa, and MIKIKO with support from The Creators Project.

Pinhole. A beautiful plastic pinhole camera, with leather details. Featuring a mountable flash and a rabbit fur strap.

OVI'S Design concept of future's next generation of SLS, space launch systems, 'XLDron Global Versatile Advanced' and 'Orbiter' rocket, with NASA's ORION Crew Module.

A look at the International Center for the History of Electronic Games's collection of 250 industrial design drawings of arcade game cabinets dating from 1974 to 1989.

Taskone - Fix your bike or cut your steak with your iPhone! A multi-tool case with a 2.5" knife, saw, screwdrivers and 13 other tools, this definitely can come in handy.

The Memorabilia Factory, by Bold-design uses the bacteria (Sporosarcina pasteurii) and a calcifying agent to fix your sandcastles into solid pieces.

VIDEOFingerSense by Qeexco is an enhancement to touch interaction that allows screens to know how the finger is being used for input: fingertip, knuckle or nail. Looks awesome!

Blue Tube Audio - A Bluetooth enabled Vacuum Tube Amplifier with style and functionality.

VIDEOThe Decelerator Helmet offers the user a perception of the world in slow motion. It is a experimental approach for dealing with our increasingly fast moving, globalized society.

West Elm has cute ceramic animal speakers - fox, squirrel, bear, and owl.

Dutch designers Raw Color devised a machine for printing colourful textiles with coded messages.

Wings make nuts easier to turn by hand, the same is true for pencil sharpeners. Perfect for anyone with a workshop, or a pencil. Or both.

VIDEOResearchers from Keio University use optical camouflage to make the backseat of a car disappear!

CYAN created QR-SCARVES with original QR code in different color variants.

FEATUREDSonos and The xx pop up a sea of interactive speakers and kinects that will track you and aim speakers towards you as you move through! Nice piece from Aramique Krauthamer, Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets.

VectorMount for GoPro is a revolutionary vehicular mounting device for your GoPro designed to dynamically rotate the camera and create a richer, more stunning composition of video.

The Versa Ruler is an interconnectable ruler set that allows for the fluid creation of multi-sided shapes. Sides snap-together, rotate and slide to form perfectly measured, scalable polygons.

FEATUREDThe Digital Dissection Dining Room, where augmented reality anatomical models pop up from your placemats! Fun project from Something & Son and Inition for the Lush awards for research into animal testing alternatives.

The Keychain Laser Projection Virtual Keyboard means you can have a keyboard at your fingertips anywhere.

Projecteo, a tiny Instagram projector from Mint Digital.

VIDEOSkataviz is an experimental prototype developed by Design I/O which uses an iPhone or iPod touch attached to a skateboard to record its motion and visualize its movement as 3D data augmented over live video.

Technological Rainforest Furniture designed by Muuaaa, using parametric design and assembly to create tessellated wooden furniture by local carpenters.

Anatomica di Revolutis - the latest 3D printed skulll sculpture project by Joshua Harker in honor of the 3rd Industrial Revolution

The Jawbone UP is back!

VIDEOThe Vibrative Virtual Keyboard from Florian Kräutli reads vibrations, allowing you to turn any surface into a keyboard.

Burton gets together with Hiroshi Fujiwara's Fragment Design to bring to you the amazing Duct Line bag collection. Each piece is constructed from 3L space suit-like material which is both super light weight, highly durable and of course very stylish.

CONSTRVCT is an online fashion design studio, where you can create beautiful clothing designs from your photos.

Peugeot makes a airbag inflate in a magazine ad. Hit the car... and POOF.

Amazing use of instant 3D scanning and 3D printing technology in the world's first 3D 'photo' booth in Tokyo.

LaCie PetiteKey - up to 32GB, this little USB key is the mini version of the iAmAKey, and it's 100-meter waterproof design and scratch resistant!

VIDEOBeams of light across Philly's skyline converge and move interpreting voice messages in a luminous public artwork

Mercedes Benz unveils the 2014 SLS AMG Black Series and it is the most powerful AMG high-performance automobile to date.

Fun art mashups - take a look at Audrey Kawasaki's take on the Choebot app from David Choe on her Instagram!

This year at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos four girls built a urine powered generator that uses 1 liter of urine to produce 6 hours of electricity.

Bike Spikes. Dutch designer Cesar Van Rongen created these bike spikes, they are the equivalent of snow chains but for bicycles…

MortonUnderwood provide a full and frank account of the process of building a unique musical instrument, commissioned by Swedish composer Jonas Asplund.

Make It So; Interface Design Lessons from Sci-Fi by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel is a collection of futuristic interactions and what we can learn from them.

VIDEOComputer junk MIDI orchestra plays Bob Dylan's 'The Times They Are A-Changin'.

VIDEOMission Bicycle Co. ❤'s Obama ~ nice video of their use of MonkeyLectric LED bike tech to spread the word

Futuracha - Fascinating free font

SanDisk Cruzer Fit - the tiniest of usb flash drives - up to 32GB! Perfect for your keychain/pocket or leaving in your car or laptop or TV...

Imagination Labs use Layar to power an AR (augmented reality) ghost hunt for Halloween.

Be Bond with the modern day jet-pack, a Parajet paramotor!!

Jack is a hand cast concrete speaker, designed by Ben Wahrlich for AN/AESTHETIC.

Manga Camera on iOS is too fun - it's exactly as it sounds, turning your world into Manga styled images!

FEATUREDIncase EO Travel Collection - incredibly thoughtful carryons designed to house/protect your tech, with great details to get you through security quickly with laptops, ipads, etc...

The BoostTurbine range from Etón allows you to power your devices thanks to a durable back-up battery with a hand turbine power generator.

AWESOMECROSS Was the worlds first fully reactive autocross race circuit. The car, driver and course were all linked together to create a truly unique driving experience.

VIDEODYSKOGRAF is a graphic disk reader. Each disc is created by visitors to the installation by way of felt tip pens provided for their use. The mechanism then reads the disk, translating the drawing into a musical sequence.

Next generation of Digital Display Technology,
Laser Phosphor Display, or LPD, is a large format display platform invented by Prysm. Virtually seamless video walls that uses a standard outlet and generates almost no heat.

FEATUREDOakley Airwave Goggle with Heads Up Display - the video shows it best. The Prism display shows Navigation/GPS, Speed, Airtime/Vertical, Music, Phone calls/texts and more...

FEATURED360 Camera Surround View System in the new Mercedes-Benz 2013 GL is awesome. So many views, so many cameras around your car, and you can see the projection of where you'll end up as you turn the wheel! See the vids...

Kyosho Space Ball Remote control RC flying sphere gyroscope with an 'aroma function' to freshen up the air...

'Bird on a Wire' is a projected interactive display created for a pair of storefront windows in Manhattan. A passerby can call a number to set birds on telephone wires into motion while listening to their flocking sounds on a cellphone.

New photos of Leo Villareal's giant glowing LED Buckyball. It's finally up in NYC!

The Scout Regalia Bicycle combines performance with style, and design with craftsmanship, made in the USA, designed by Scout Regalia.

25 year old Massound Hassani designed a GPS integrated ball called Mine Kafon that rolls over mine filled land to detonate the bombs safely!

Kawandeep Virdee designed this card to be in the Museum of Pocket art ALL BUSINESS ALL THE TIME show. The card was designed through Processing, before being laser-cut in acrylic.

No. 22 Bicycle Company introduces their new aerospace grade Titanium fixed gear bike frame.

VIDEOConstructable by students at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam is an interactive drafting table that uses laser pointers, a camera sensing their movements, and a laser cutter.

"Dusty Diamonds" by Anna Elzer Oscarson. The series of objects to decorate the table is a project in collaboration with company Porslinsfabriken from Lidköping, once used by manufacturers of renown Rörstrand porcelain.

VIDEOA time-lapse of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's trek across L.A was created by Bryan Chan for the the Los Angeles Times. The video shows the shuttle on its 12-mile journey from LAX Airport to the California Science Center.

Smart Deblur app created by Vladimir Yuzhikov - Gizmodo finds 'Incredible CSI-Like “Enhance!” App Fixes Your Unfocused Photos'

Bottle Cap concrete and maple stool by Peter Williamson.

FEATUREDLondon 3D Printshow ~ a range of 3D printers and scanning technology on display as well as 3D printed art and more! Awesome to see the much anticipated FormLabs Form 1 3D printer in action!

Inside Shapeways' Factory of the Future that just opened... see the ribbon cutting with Major Bloomberg, and see 3D prints, machines, and more in the new NY space!

Lomography Belair X 6-12 - new auto-exposure medium format panoramic camera with interchangeable lenses and classic bellows to compact it on the go.

Portal Companion Cube Engagement Ring - With behind the scenes photos of how it was made.

Côte & Ciel Bowler Bag - special center compartment fits a macbook air 13"

'Drawing time' wall installation that visually records the passage of time. It is a clock that tells time and by doing so, draws spirographical circles on the wall. Recently shown at the Vienna Design Week.

Architecture firm Morphosis designs LA’s biggest net-zero office...for themselves!

Alto provides users with a visual story of their email inboxes using a variety of innovative features designed to make it easy to sort through and find what is really important.

Where the Internet Lives: The first-ever glimpse inside Google’s Data Centers, photographed by Connie Zhou.

GoPro HD WiFi enabled Hero 3 Black Edition ~ 30% smaller, 25% lighter & 2X more powerful - new resolutions and frame-rates include 4Kp 15, 2.7kp 30, 1080p 60, 1440p 48, 960p 100, 720p 120 and 12MP burst photo capture at 30 fps.

VIDEOShapeways has made a fun video profiling our friends and generative designers, Nervous System - take a peek behind their process, 3D printed jewelry, lighting and more!

VIDEOEach year the mapping performances of nerdworking are getting more theatricle. This time, in their new fairytale, story of a little town is getting digitilized by their new expression.

VIDEOMoment by Harald Haraldsson is an interactive sculpture that uses a two 6 axis robotic arms, a Samsung Galaxy SIII, mirrors, and an actor.

FEATUREDRed Bull Stratos - Felix Baumgartner just ascended to 120,000 feet in a stratospheric balloon and made a freefall jump to earth... amazing to watch live moments ago!

Beautiful design for the new Slingbox 350 and 500!

Chris Harrison's Acoustic Barcodes - by simply scraping the grooves with a fingernail, etc and capture the sound wave with a basic microphone to then be decoded.

A recent grad develops bricks of blood for use in buildings.

Ring Ruler is the first size-adjustable circular ruler. Expands/contracts to the desired size and displays diameter, arc length/circumference and degrees.

SIWA cushioned iPad case, with soft sheer fabric liner to keep your iPad scratch free, button and string opening ensures contents are safe and secure. Designed by Naoto Fukasawa,

The Red Bull Stratos Mission takes place Oct 9th when Felix Baumgartner will jump from 23 miles up near the edge of space and reach speeds possibly exceeding mach1 making it the highest and fastest jump ever.

in 1908 Dr Julius Neubronner patented a miniature pigeon camera activated by a timing mechanism. Amazing pictures found at The Public Domain Review.

Hoocap ~ lens cap that opens right into a lens hood

TEAGUE's 13:30 printable headphones are completely functional and simple enough to be built from 100% consumer sourceable parts. Designed by John Mabry.

Inside Insides by Andy Ellison is a collection of GIFs, high res images, and interactive visuals all of food and plants made on an MRI machine.

VIDEOBeatboxer Killa Kela performs exclusively with 2013 Ford Focus ST - fusing his 'multivocalism' skills with EcoBoost engine's Active Sound Symposer, creating a soundtrack of power and performance.

The Nest thermostat got both a hardware and software upgrade today... 20% thinner, no more spinning dial on the top, more compatibility, and some new features (which will also roll out to existing Nest owners)

CW is promoting its fall lineup with an LCD screen with live tweets in Entertainment Weekly, using "a custom-built, smartphone-like Android device with an LED screen and 3G connectivity; it was manufactured in China."

Moo's NFC cards have a built in microchip - "When it’s touched to a smartphone, the chip asks the phone to do something. Something you’ve told it to... download your portfolio, play music or video, load web pages, maps or apps - the possibilities are endless. "

Caliper Studios, a unique integrated design & metal fabrication shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY. A beautiful photo series from local photographer Ty Cole.

A new transparent soil for observing root growth from researchers at University of Abertay Dundee. Resembles clear ant farm or gel plant mediums, but only becomes translucent when saturated with a special water-based solution.

FEATURED3D Printed Optics - from Disney Research Pittsburgh. 3D printable "light pipes" that function like fiber optics mean you can 3D print light bulbs, have toys with built in displays, create switches/buttons/etc, and more.

Just posted on Quirky, a mag-safe style USB adapter that works both ways. Never struggle to plug in a USB cable or USB drive again. Vote to make it a reality!

Beautiful enormous Hoberman sculpture Noiaison (First Growth) at Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte in Bordeaux, France. Fabricated out of aircraft grade aluminum with CNC machining, each of the 224 struts and 54 hubs.

Ad Conference Question Generator App by Colle + McVoy ~ all you need to put your hand up and ask questions at Ad Week.

Arduino powered Lanyard used to count interactions at "Socialising the Internet of Things" hosted by Imagination for Social Media Week, London.

Worldc.am by Kinda Like a Big Deal is a location based search for Instagram. Simply type in a location and look through trending places or search for your own.

VIDEOCrowdraw by Everyware is a crowd sourced painting project that uses an app on your smartphone and a paintball gun in a gallery.

Discover Audi Quattro experience in Slot racing by Audi Canada.

FEATUREDReebok launched their new Fit List Spotify App with a fun video and 100 special shoe "boxes" that have built in speakers and LEDs that respond to music and environment! See the video, making of, and inside the box!

Google announces its first underwater street view with trip through a portion of the Great Barrier Reef.

VIDEOIris by Hybe is an interactive media canvas made of an expandable LCD matrix. Using the Kinect, the installation begs users to play with it.

ChauhanStudio collaborate with OMG Life to design AUTOGRAPHER, the world’s first intelligent wearable camera.

GE's 69-inch drone helicopter "Flyclops" is being sent on three missions. The online community will determine where it goes, and thus what area of GE tech they want to learn about.

VIDEOOde à La Vie (Ode to Life) by Moment Factory is a moving fresco+projection mapping project on one of the most famous pieces of architecture in the world, Gaudi's Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain.

Teenage Engineering may be the first company to make CAD files available to 3D print replacement parts.

It's time to kick your movie watching experience on your mobile into high gear with the new Mini Cinema for iPhone.

VIDEOContainerization: A new infographic film about the box that changed the world and a new one that might change the universe. Companion film to the book Trillions.

VIDEOA client greeting app with a difference, for Creature of London by Clubhouse Studios.

Hiragana Flash is a typography-driven iPhone app designed to help you read the Japanese hiragana alphabet through an intuitive flash-card style presentation.

VIDEOLow Fidelity, a 2012 graduate thesis by Erin Besler as part of the Master of Architecture Program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Erin Besler

VIDEOA creepy, but fascinating interactive virtual anatomical model using a projector and sensors from Gifu University.

Wow. SD cards are up to 256 GIGS! Lexar Announces Industry’s First 256GB SDXC UHS-I Memory Card...

Makerbot introduces the Replicator 2 with a new powder coated black steel chasis, higher resolution, bigger build volume and new software.

VIDEOThe Lego Great Ball Contraption by Aklyuky is a lego machine that sorts and moves little balls along an incredible path of robots and contraptions. The machine took over 2 years to make. You have to see this!

VIDEODennis P Paul scans the surface of everyday things and turns it into sounds.

McLaren reveals the P1 design study, a successor to the incredible F1. The supercar takes inspiration from the rich racing history of McLaren and aims to hit production lines in the future.

The Dark Energy Survey Collaboration released the first images from their 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful astronomical imager ever built.

What a brilliant easter egg from Dell! Turning their laptop slot filling plastic into useful tools/measurement converters!

TC Mobility's Tank Chair takes wheelchair users to terrains they've never conquered before, like off road and even underwater.

Skube is a Last.fm and Spotify radio. This was made in the Tangible User Interface course at the Copenhagen Institute for Interaction Design.

The 2012 Toyota Tundra is slated to tow the 300,000 pound Space Shuttle Endeavour through a portion of downtown Los Angeles on the final leg of its journey to the California Science Center on October 13, 2012.

Uros' Goodspeed hotspot holds 10 SIM cards and allows you to navigate across borders while dodging roaming fees.

The Milwaukee M12 600 MCM Cable Cutter is powered by a ratcheting mechanism and superior blade geometry and is able to cut through large cables.

VIDEOVisua Musio by AppArt is a geometric music maker app for iPad. Move the shapes around and arrange them to create experimental compositions.

TweetBot by Hyun Ju Kim is a robotic spider that senses when you approach and reacts to you, quoting sad, lonely passages from the creator's journal.

The Self-Folding Proteins, by SJET LLC, are single strands of material with sequences of fold angles. When they are thrown into the air randomly, they self-assemble into the 3D protein structure!

VIDEOScientists at the Argonne National Laboratory have developed a technique to levitate liquid. Using two small speakers, one above the other, they generate sound waves at frequencies of about 22 kilohertz causing the liquid to stay in place.

The Orée Wireless Wooden Keyboard made from wood! Love the photos of it under construction.

VIDEOBoston Dynamics and DARPA show improvements made to the Legged Squad Support System. The robot is designed to carry supplies and cargo, autonomously following a soldier.