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Category: Gadgets & Geekery

Everyone loves gadgets and all good geeks appreciate the intersection of geeky art and design, from memes turned into living works to technology scrap turned into new design objects. From innovative light art to unique drawing techniques, here are our favorite works of art that will inspire the geek in anyone – as well as our top gadgets for everyone who wants to have their very own piece of future tech.

WeWALK: Smart Cane Incorporates Google Maps for Easier Navigation

If smartphones can fit a whole world of functionality within our pockets, why can’t the same features be incorporated into useful tools for people with disabilities? In a particularly cool ...

Adversarial Fashion Designed to Trick Automated License Plate Readers

As it turns out, surveillance cameras that have been "trained" to spot and read license plates aren't all that good at discerning real ones from fakes. That makes it pretty easy to trick ...

Anthropomorphic Drones Tell the Stories of Immigrants & Refugees in Milan

In Milan, the eyes and voices of immigrants, refugees and marginalized citizens take on a surprising form to interact with the public, telling people their stories. While drones are typically ...

Dystopia Now: Office-Oriented “Blinkers” Serve as Horse Blinders for Humans

As workers become increasingly packed in modern, open-plan offices and coworking spaces, designers keep working on high-tech solutions to allow employees to focus, often with the unintended ...

No Butts About It: Crows Cleaning Up Cigarettes at a French Theme Park

When an Amsterdam-based startup announced last year that it was training crows to pick up cigarette butts in exchange for food, the concept seemed a little ridiculous, but not because crows ...

Measuring Wheel: Ditch Roll-Up Tape for a Coin-Sized Pocket ‘Rollbe’ Ruler

Architects, carpenters and other design and construction professionals often carry measuring tape wherever they go, but this small wheel makes for a much less bulky companion ...

Mobile Phone Airbag: Spring-Loaded Legs Deploy to Save Dropped Devices

Protecting better than conventional cases or edge bumpers, this "active dampening" unit acts like an airbag for your portable handheld gadget, springing to action as it heads toward the concrete ...

Reinventing the Cat: Mobile Succulent Planter Robot Seeks Out Sunlight

This robotic "smart" planter wanders around on six articulated legs to make sure your precious greens get enough natural light, prompting the observation: "This is called a cat. You've invented ...

Trash Bot Game & Professor Water Wheel: Gadgets Devour Floating Plastic Waste

Plastic pollution is worse than ever, with scientists recently announcing horrific levels of micro plastics found in Arctic sea ice, but innovative new ways of cleaning it up may give us a sliver ...

Construction Brew: Rugged Coffee Maker Runs on Power Tool Batteries

Made by power tool-maker Makita, this is the ultimate coffee machine to energize construction workers, charged by the same batteries already in use on work sites. The CM501D is designed to derive ...

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