Movies like Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol are certainly entertaining. But for those of us stoked on living in “The Future”, they also provide a great public service. If companies don’t think they can sell it, they won’t front the money for R&D, and we won’t get awesome stuff to play with. So when we see 
The process of 3D printing is called additive manufacturing, and it’s a pretty simple idea: A machine squirts some material in layers based on a 3D computer model until the design has become a real life object. There’s a few different methods and processes to choose from, but here I’m just focusing on “Fused Deposition 
In case you’ve never heard of it: KickStarter is a real cool website that helps people realize their creative ideas by Darwinian process: 1. Have an idea? 2. Put it on Kickstarter. 3. It’s a good one. 4. Strangers give you money! 5. Success. Below are my No.1′s for awesome gifts. I know that we’re 
Trebec: No way. That’s bullshit. That’s what I said the first time I saw this video. Enter NeverWet; a byproduct of the super-boring R&D over at Ross Nanotechnologies, a division of Ross Technologies–creators of Algrip Slip-Resistant Flooring Products, and Dexco Storage Rack Systems–inventing the future of, well…stuff. The company calls it a “super hydrophobic coating 
Our lives will never be the same. Or, at least, how we remember them won’t be. Since 2006, or 2003 for a few Harvard alums, we’ve been posting everything from that “great breakfast” to the birth of our first child on Facebook.com. For half a decade our collected memories have had their 15 minutes of 
