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Festo's Robotic SmartBird Wants To Join The Flock
A robotic bird that is so lifelike it fools other birds into flying with it may be the first step in humanity's ability to truly mimic the natural world, and thus learn how to better use our...
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With Americans Coming Around To Soccer, Is U.S. Domination Around The Corner?
In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect, we look at what might happen if interest in soccer continues to grow: TV deals, a World Cup victory, and the American Dirk Nowitzki.
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@Osamainhell Tells Us How To Run A Fake Twitter Feed
In an exclusive interview with the man behind the popular fake Twitter feed @osamainhell, Fast Company finds out what it takes to do 24/7 Twitter satire, along with some tips for aspiring...
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Why The U.S. Government Should Embrace Smart Cities
Instead of cashing in on what could be a $1.2 trillion industry, our patchwork collection of local, city, and state governments fight over who should pay to update our infrastructure. This needs to...
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Kobo Thumbs Its Nose At Apple With An HTML5 E-reader App
Apple has forced all apps that contain access to a non-Apple store for more content to remove direct links to the store. In some ways, it's a move to keep control of the App Store and maintain the...
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Turning Diamond-Edged Blades Into Fuel-Saving Plowshares
High-tech materials and farming may seem like an unlikely mix, but new research suggests diamond-edged plows could have serious environmental payoffs.German researchers have considered the ancient...
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Fox Squeezes Net TV, Japan Gets First Mango Windows Phone, Facebook's...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Fox Squeezes Net Access To Its Shows. In a move that you could call pushback at the advance of Net video channels, Fox...
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Unbound's Crowd-Financed, Spine-Tingling Effort To Reinvent Book Publishing
Unbound publishing, the Kickstarter for books, just had its very first success: It reached its target so that it could produce and then publish a new book by none other than Terry Jones, of Monty...
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Billion-Dollar Weather Disasters Are The New Normal
Whether or not the increased number of natural disasters is real or imagined, one thing is clear: We're paying more and more money to deal with their aftermath. Major weather disasters appear to be...
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Why Neuromusic Will Never Be As Catchy As Katy Perry
Neuroscientists have found how brainwaves can predict hit songs, but listen (below) to actual music made from neuro feedback, and you'll understand why experts think the pop charts will remain mindless...
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Stanford Brings Affordable Medical Innovation To India Through Collaborative...
The future of U.S. medical-device design may reside in developing countries.In India, where a chaotic road system spawns many accidents and hospitals are often hours away, the need for an inexpensive...
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How You Can Help Netflix Integrate With Facebook In The U.S.
Pop Vox is a Washington D.C.-based startup that harnesses the power of social media and crowdsourcing to influence members of Congress. You can use the service to try to amend the law blocking...
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Apple Roundup: Skinny MacBooks, iPhone 5 Cases Leak, iPad 3 In The Fall,...
You may not be shocked to learn that a lot of rumored Apple news is bubbling up around on the Web--here's our roundup of the most interesting bits.Air-Inspired 15-Inch MacBook ProsApple is rumored to...
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With Scavenged Power And Data Furnaces, Finding Energy In Waste
Not all inventions need to involve new discoveries. Two new projects--one which draws power from the air, one which uses heat from servers--show that we can hack our way out of wasteful systems.Fresh...
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Hidden In The Budget: The End Of Almost Every Major Environmental Regulation
As Congress gears up for another budget fight, environmental protections--from endangered species to clean water to pollution rules for power plants--are all on the chopping block.Once the debt ceiling...
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Scientists Discover The Oldest, Largest Body Of Water In Existence--In Space
Around a black hole 12 billion light years away, there's an almost unimaginable vapor cloud of water--enough to supply an entire planet's worth of water for every person on earth, 20,000 times...
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Millions Affected By Hack In Korea, BBC iPlayer Goes Euro, Oracle Vs. Google,...
This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day.Prepaid Plans Will Be 1/4 Of Wireless Subscriptions: By the end of 2011, The New Millennium Research Council estimates...
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OK Go's Human Kaleidoscope, All Is Not Lost, And How It Translates Into Sales
Damian Kulash and director Trish Sie walk us through the making of All Is Not Lost, and OK Go's approach to the music experience. In the course of producing its distinctive videos, OK Go has contended...
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Visualizing The Traffic Of Rome, Paris, And Tel Aviv
These gorgeous videos show the patterns of drivers in three major cities: where they're going, and where they get stuck.Los Angeles managed to survive Carmageddon, with some help from Ashton Kutcher...
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Injectable Biomaterial Enables Tricky Facial-Injury Fixes, Extreme Body Mods
Surgically repairing delicate soft tissues like those on the face after an injury or illness is a tricky business. Surgeons can fix bones, joints, and other body parts--but lips and cheeks simply...
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