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| 'The Wizard of Oz' Like You've Never Seen Before: In Legos | | Friday, June 28, 2013 7:00 PM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| This year at Brickworld Chicago, a group of online Lego builders called VirtuaLUG (Virtual Lego User Group) recreated every major scene from the original 1939 The Wizard of Oz movie, including a motorized tornado. The project involved 12 builders across three different countries, with scenes from Kansas to Munchkinland and poppy fields in the land of Oz.
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| 3D-Printed Fashion Show Draws Inspiration From Nature | | Friday, June 28, 2013 6:44 PM | Bonnie Wertheim |
| When you think about it, the fashion and tech industries aren't so different. Both create products that people use daily, follow extremely fickle trends and insist upon remaining on the cutting edge. It's unsurprising, then, that the two worlds would eventually collide.
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| Charge Your Phone — With a Flick of the Wrist | | Friday, June 28, 2013 5:38 PM | PSFK |
| When it looks like your phone is about to run out of battery, you actually have plenty of juice to spare. The Voltmaker is a device that allows you to make use of that reserve energy in order to charge your phone — all with the flick of a wrist. A hidden rod that is normally secured to the body using a magnet can be released using a spring-loaded mechanism.
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| 6 Things We'd Change About Feedly | | Friday, June 28, 2013 5:17 PM | Taylor Casti |
| Google Reader is all but in the ground, and Feedly has risen up to take in the poor and forlorn Reader users who are wandering aimlessly around the web, looking for a new and comprehensive RSS experience. Feedly is trying to fill the void by updating their services, but still, some of the magic of our favorite RSS reader is gone.
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| British Airways Tries Out Electronic Luggage Tags | | Friday, June 28, 2013 2:52 PM | PSFK |
| Creative product design consultancy Designworks has partnered with British Airways to develop an electronic bag tag to replace the traditional paper model. After a passenger checks in for a flight, she can hold her smartphone over the tag to automatically update it with a unique barcode, containing all of her flight information and a view of her bag’s destination.
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| Japan to Launch Talking Robot Into Space | | Friday, June 28, 2013 10:18 AM | Space.com |
| A small talking robot built in Japan is about to take one giant leap into space. Kirobo — a humanoid "robot astronaut" that can converse with humans in space and on the ground — is scheduled for launch to the International Space Station on Aug. 4. Once aboard the orbiting laboratory, Kirobo will take part in the first robot-to-human conversation in space, Kibo Robot Project officials have said.
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| RoboCarp Underwater Vehicle Swims Like a Real Fish | | Friday, June 28, 2013 7:29 AM | Dhiya Kuriakose |
| A team of researchers has developed a robot fish that imitates the movements of a carp. They're from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and they're calling their invention, of course, RoboCarp. The robotic fish, or autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), is about five feet long, weighs 22 pounds and can dive to six feet.
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