Hyundai plans to reinvent the car owner's manual with a detailed virtual guide (available on a tablet or phone)Hyundai has announced a modern take on the traditional owner's manual usually found inside a car's glove box. The automaker will soon be launching an augmented reality guide to help users with repairs, maintenance and vehicle feature information.In the future, virtual manuals like this...

A new display technology can embed smartglass displays directly inside the lenses, resulting in much more streamlined look that won't attract nearly as many stares as current-generation smart glasses. Scientists at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have developed a display technology that may soon spell the end of awkward-looking smartglasses. The resulting displays are thin, lightwe...

Building on the success of these campaigns, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is using tech to help the cause by launching a mobile app that lets you feed a refugee child with just a tap.Called ShareTheMeal, this mobile app allows anyone to virtually “share” the meal they’re having, whether that’s breakfast, lunch, or dinner. “The simple act of sharing a meal is how people all...

The Under-The-Jack Pack by Betabrand. It is an ultra-slim laptop bag that conceals easily under a jacket.Every day, I make a mile-long trek from the train station to my house through a rough neighborhood; I realized I'd feel safer if I wasn't advertising the fact I had a laptop with me. I started thinking about ways to conceal it and came up with the idea of a laptop sleeve with straps.The Unde...

Take what you know about food storage, put it in your big fat plastic container, and throw it out the window! The FoldFlat tupperware system is food storage reinvented. Inspired by origami, it’s the world’s first fold-down and pop-up container. It brings an end to messy cupboards and lost lids with a unique nestable design that keeps the two parts together. Now it’s easier than ever to pack...

Japanese electronics maker NEC has unveiled a unique input mechanism that allows you to type on your arm using augmented reality.The system is called the ARmKeypad and it combines a set of glasses to visualize the virtual keyboard and a smartwatch to detect how fast you type.Designed as a means to give workers a "hands-free" way of working while maintaining the ability to input text into a data...

Lovers of MUJI’s minimalist Japanese aesthetic will swoon over the retail chain’s latest project: Muji Hut, a series of tiny prefab homes befitting the simple yet chic brand. Recently unveiled for Tokyo’s annual Design Touch event at Midtown Garden, the collection of micro-homes are designed to explore what it means to live a more sustainable lifestyle through minimalism. MUJI created the Mu...

A new technology has promise to safely find buried plastic explosives and maybe even spot fast-growing tumors. The technique involves the clever interplay of microwaves and ultrasound to develop a detector like the Star Trek tricorder.Stanford engineers are using microwaves and ultrasound to create a safe and portable way to detect hidden objects.When Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy needs to diagnose...

Climeworks has developed a scalable atmospheric carbon capture that can store CO2 for reuse as energy.We recently wrote about a Belgian company converting climate change related byproducts into ethanol that is sold on as fuel. Switzerland-based Climeworks is going a step further by capturing CO2 from the air for commercial uses.Climeworks have developed a filter that binds CO2 by direct air cap...