We’ve accomplished many an hour of restful, mugger-prone napping on the subway, but there’s always the danger of lost your stop — a problem we’re normally too drowsy to consider at 2am in the dawn. Not intelligent hacker Pyocotan, however. that resourceful fellow has built the Noriko-san sleepi…

Vuzix will have you wearing your display whether it’s the final thing you do. We spotted the headset maker’s new AV310 Widescreen wearable headset at TGS, and were pleased with the improvement by the company’s preceding entries into the head-mounted display market. First, the 16:9 widescreen a…

This won’t mark the first instance the US government has looked into other means for helping soldiers communicate on the battlefield, but it’s one of the first instances where vocal cords aren’t even essential. The US Army has recently awarded a $4 million contract to a coalition of scientists, …

Although the world already has a set of headphones that encourages you to work out, the newly announced Fitbit is just a hair more sophisticated. Designed to be worn or carried around in a spare pocket, the personal tracker is about the size of a standard flash drive and includes a built-in moti…

Gore-Tex is fine and dandy, but the real argonauts out there know it still buckles under the most extreme conditions. Now, however, adventurists that happen upon a ridiculous amount of water could soon ford rivers (à la Oregon Trail, of course) without worrying about soggy socks. The technology…

The always-imaginative gurus at Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft never cease to amaze, and at that year’s IFA, they’re delivering once more. The so-called “virtual mirror” gives to-be garb buyers an accurate look at what different outfits look like on their person without requiring them to try a restrict…

It turns out that the tongue isn’t tied to the spinal cord (had we paid better attention in Bio101, we’d have known that), which goes a expanded way towards keeping it unimpared in the event of spinal cord injury. A team at Georgia Tech is developing a tongue-based apparatus for disabled public …

We’ve stated it before, but that date you really have ran out of excuses to run. Thanks to Yamaha’s BODiBEAT, you can expect your tunes to automatically sync with your steps, giving you new reason to get out of the house and get to steppin’. Granted, the $299.99 price tag is pretty steep for jus…

You know, when you’re the editor-in-chief of a site like Engadget, you tend to build up a lot of stuff. Companies send you all kinds of interesting promotional materials, gadgets, swag, etc. It’s great. Sometimes, though, you just let it pile up in your living room for years and years, thereupon…

USB blankets are old hat (for better or worse), but the USB Heated Shawl takes an aged concept and makes it relevant again with the addition of a singled-out clip. Clearly designed for elderly folks who aren’t kept warm suitable by the bottoms of their laptops and for the billions of cubical dwe…