Moscow-based Thngs is building something akin to a Wikipedia for physical objects. Although, given that the startup is already working on ways to monetize its offering, purists will likely take issue ...

A couple weeks ago I had a fascinating video call with a gentleman named Dror Sharon, the CEO of a company called Consumer Physics. He showed me a product called Scio that just went up on Kickstarter ...

Today, much of our communication, information and personal memorabilia come in digital not material form. These electronic bytes that we regard as our possessions are summoned on demand and stored on ...

A global team of computer scientists have developed a novel method that replicates physical objects for the virtual and augmented reality space just using a point-and-shoot camera with a flash, ...

Plants moving toward the sun, proteins folding into complex structures in response to their surroundings, molecules stacking themselves together to form a crystal. No external machinery directs these ...

A new 3D fabrication technique uses holograms to create objects in just a few seconds. This method, developed by researchers from EPFL and the University of Southern Denmark, promises a revolution in ...

Video: What if everything got a new paint job? Stefanie Mueller believes that new digital technology has some incredible applications in developing changeable color, to make everyday things look flush ...

With all the hype around the Internet of Things—a future in which ordinary devices are sensor equipped and wifi-connected—we might be missing a concept that is something like its inverse: Let’s call ...

Imagine coating an expensive part with a layer of diamond dust the width of a human hair, capturing its light pattern as a unique identifier, then storing that identifier in a traditional database or ...