This compact gadget is designed to force an artificial wind up through its handle that shoots out the top and deflects incoming raindrops before they can hit your head.

Functional street lights tend to fade into the background for most of us, but these designers have creatively re-imagined the humble piece of urban furniture.

Smoking will never be a healthy habit, but this ashtray concept can help something positive come from the ashes that smokers leave behind.

A twenty-foot sculpture in Los Angeles demonstrates how thermo-bimetals, a potential building material, respond to heat and cold by curling and tightening.

This 'Hanging Hotel' is only accessible to rock climbers, offering a customizable dreamlike interior of pods and platforms that provide a restful refuge.

There is an amazing material that is lighter than Styrofoam, stronger than steel and the perfect heat insulator - and most people have never heard of it.

If there is one thing humanity did right, it's create awe inspiring monuments: The Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty, the Gundam robot statue... wait, what?

Visionary French architect Jacques Rougerie has refined the SeaOrbiter design concept for over a decade, and is finally going to see his dream come to life.

Massive sculptures made of foam and silicon membranes reproduce the vocal chords of extinct prehistoric creatures, allowing us to hear what they sounded like.

Quantum physics lets us see the world in fascinating new ways. This demonstration of quantum levitation is one of the most amazing things science has to offer.