When it comes to innovations, creativity, and design excellence, it’s hard to compete with the concepts of Eidos Outcomes. However, if this is what it’s going to take to get Superman’s hearing, Wolverine’s sense of smell, and Legolas’ eyesight, you might want to consider sticking with your mortal senses or risk looking like a freak. “Eidos consists of two pieces of experimental equipment, one for sight and one for hearing. We found that while we experience the world as many overlapping signals, we can use technology to first isolate and then amplify the one we want.” As you’ll see in the video below,…

“People love hugging”, states designer Celina Alvarado. I dunno, Celina, that’s pretty broad. I mean, I like hugging – hugs are pretty fly. But to say I love hugging implies a level of commitment I’m unsure I’m ready for. …and with apprehension of that magnitude, it’s no wonder I’m not even close to married. Anyway, hugs. Alvarado is a fan of them. So much so, in fact, that she has gone to the trouble of developing a wearable device that not only logs the duration and intensity of hugs, but passes judgment on them – and tweets the results. Of course it tweets the results. Because I want to read the Twitter…

Wearable tech is all the rage in tech concepts right now. With the technology to achieve truly portable, wearable technology just out of reach, it’s fun to imagine what we could be using in as little as five or ten years as computer interfaces. Two major technologies are being touted as the big enablers of wearable computing: Flexible, affordable OLED touchscreens and holographic screens. This concept has them both, and then some. The wristband is bulky but has a full wraparound screen, and can be laid flat with a pop out keyboard and holographic display projected above. The only strange thing…

Scientific advancement comes primarily from the areas most of interest to big business and governments. So why does this article lead with a photograph of a well toned dude in tight fitting pants? Aside from the facts that sex sells and that our editors yearn for a greater percentage of female readers, this is actually the first iteration of clothing that is able to monitor the body chemistry of the wearer non-invasively. Researchers from Taiwan and U.C. San Diego have come up with a method of printing electrochemical sensors directly onto fabric. The primary advantage of this would be for, that’s…