Published 30 May 2017

Early May, NASA launched a call for projects to create the future fablab of the International Space Station and develop digital fabrication in orbit.

Published 23 May 2017

After launching the Bio Academy and the Textile Academy, the Fab Academy is considering expanding its programs to design and storytelling.

Published 16 May 2017

Tortoises ridden by robots that guide them is the experience of a team of Korean researchers. A first step towards biobots?

Published 9 May 2017

Researchers in the United States demonstrated that the replication of the HIV could be stopped thanks to the CRISPR-Cas9 technique, kind of genetic scissors.

Published 5 May 2017

Safecast, best known for its DIY Geiger counter, the bGeigie, just announced on April 29 its newest device: Solarcast has sensors to measure temperature, humidity, radiation and air quality.

Published 28 April 2017

Programing an assistant robot has never been as simple, thanks to the software developed by a team from Georgia Tech University that offers a point and click interface.

Published 20 April 2017

On April 28 will be held in Toulouse (Southwestern France) the first NanoCar Race. Four international teams will “drive” molecular machines on a nano-sized racetrack.

Published 7 April 2017

Researchers from the University of California presented a rubber-like material that is stretchable and transparent, conducts ions and can heal itself to regain all its fantastic properties.

Published 5 April 2017

A research published by U.S. scientific journal «Nature» describes how CNRS developed the first physical model of an artificial synapse.

Published 3 April 2017

The e-commerce giant Alibaba signed agreements to collaborate with Australian and New Zealand companies to launch pilot frameworks based on blockchain.

Published 3 April 2017

An internet user on the other side of the world can remotely pilot objects of So Kanno and Yamaguchi Takahiro's "Avatars" installation, presented at Ycam, the arts and media center in Japan.

Published 28 March 2017

Preview of the winning prototypes of the Haptic Design Award exhibited at FabCafe Tokyo. When every object has a palpable soul...

Published 20 March 2017

In the biggest garbage dump in West Africa, in Ghana, a makerspace is being set up where one is beginning to imagine projects to improve the life conditions of the families living there and to create added value from rubbish.

Published 16 March 2017

The Democracy Fund, Knight Foundation and Rita Allen Foundation teamed up to launch a joint fund to support fresh and creative ideas to counter the spread of misinformation and build trust in quality journalism in the United States.

Published 12 March 2017

This March 14, one particularly numerically oriented artist duo decided to celebrate π Day (3/14) by launching an... unlimited edition artwork.

Published 1 March 2017

On one side, Handle by Boston Dynamics, a military-grade equine robot that rolls, jumps and spins; on the other, Spider, an excavator commissioned to crush and remove nuclear debris in Fukushima.

Published 1 March 2017

70 mini fablabs are set to be built in the next 9 months with the support of the Indian government in Kerala, South India.

Published 27 February 2017

Imagine a “DIY and inventive destruction” in animation from a 3D model: “White Noise” magazine calls for a project around the BBC East Tower, which will be soon destroyed for real.

Published 21 February 2017

Space10, supported by Ikea, released files under an open licence of the Growroom, a DIY urban garden kit. A new strategy for the Swedish company?

Published 2 February 2017

Tokyo 2020 organizing committee invites all residents of Japan to donate their obsolete electronic devices to manufacture 100% of the Olympic medals.