From the receptionist that does the check-in and check-out to the porter that's an automated trolley taking luggage up to the room, this hotel in Japan is almost totally "manned" by robots.
Before you consider, here are a few opinions from Scientific American readers in 1913 on what makes a great invention A competition sponsored in 1913 by Scientific American asked for essays on the 10 greatest inventions. The rules: "our time" meant the previous quarter century, 1888 to 1913; the invention had to be patentable and was considered to date from its "commercial introduction."
IT WAS WHILE studying product design in London that Jane ní Dhulchaointigh realised that making new things for consumers who already had more than enough wasn't for her. Rather than conjuring up yet another lamp, table or chair, the Kilkenny-raised inventor, who first studied sculpture in Dublin before leaving for the UK, wanted to create something that made an impact on people's everyday lives.
Every year, Dyson asks industrial designers, product designers, and engineers to submit their smart solution to a problem-any problem. It's an awesomely broad request, and it usually results in some pretty fascinating projects. Leading up to this year's Dyson Award, we took a look at just a tiny fraction of the entries.
Editor's Note: This article is part of the Utah Inventions series, which features a different inventor or invention with Utah ties each Wednesday. SALT LAKE CITY - As the saints continued their trek across the plains, William Clayton was busy at work one morning in the spring of 1847.
Ever eat something and wonder who invented it? Well, after some extensive research on Mental Floss , and Filters Now , I've learned that a bunch of smart, go-getter women came up with some of our favorite foods and many of the tools we use on the daily.
There's an entire world of oddball inventions floating around the Internet. Exhibit A: the Chork, a combination chopstick/fork. Some of these inventions are hybrids of familiar, everyday objects, while others don't seem to be like anything else we've seen before.
People who don't believe in evolution often argue that something as complicated as the human eye could not have arisen by an undirected process. Just as the existence of a watch implies the existence of a watchmaker, they argue, so the eye demands what they call an intelligent designer.
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