August 2014

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This Might Get Your Head Spinning: The 3D-Printable Mobile Wind Turbine

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that renewable solar energy has become super portable, with companies like REI selling items like foldable packable solar mats that outdoor…

Smart-Device Science On-the-Go: The Tiny Conversion Lens

We were promised years ago that smart devices would change everything, that the uses they could be put to would be limited only by our imaginations, and that…

Shoot Some Sick Ride Footage Anywhere: The Portable Street Rail

Could this be the ultimate peacemaker between commercial property owners and security guards on the one side and riders, skaters, and bladers on the other? Nah, probably not…

Turning Exhalations into Speech: The Handheld AAC Device

Now we’re TALKin’. About the size of a smart phone, the new AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) device dubbed “TALK” promises to change the lives of people with…

Searching for Littlefoot: The Ultra-Portable Bicycle Stand

Searching for the perfect all-around ultra-portable stand can feel a bit like trying to find Bigfoot (or Littlefoot, pun totally intended; hey product developers, you payin’ attention?!) –…

Kangaroo Light

Holy Jumpin’ Kangaroo: The Portable, Flexible Light

A light that is portable and flexible, that you can fold and stash and carry with? You bet. Studio BANANA THiNGS is in the production phase on their…

Bubble Rucksack

Fish-Tank Fashion: The Aquarium Backpack

While we try to maintain our focus on those truly ingeniously useful portable items (most of the time), we just can’t let this traveling fish pouch reported on…