It might sound like something straight out of Q’s laboratory or the latest Marvel film but a group of scientists in California have successfully created eye drops that temporarily enable night vision.

If you’ve driven a car the past few weeks, you’ve hit a pothole or ten. Every year, we know they’re coming, and yet we’re still dumbfounded by their sheer number and capacity for destruction. And, we wonder, why does this go on? I mean, we have driverless cars, but every spring our roads still crumble like stale cake. The best we can manage, it seems, is a mad scramble of patching, little more than a blitz of damage control.

Not only do they make periods less messy, more manageable and allow you to go swimming, they have a huge number of other uses. Now engineers from the University of Sheffield have discovered that glow-in-the-dark tampons can be used to stop sewage leaking into rivers. The untreated white cotton used in tampons glows under UV light when they're soaked in dirty or polluted river water.

Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots. In a new patent awarded to the company today, Google outlines ways to download and customize the personality of a robot or computer.

The first-ever perfume delivery system to ensure the more a person sweats, the better they will smell, has been developed by scientists at Queen's University Belfast. Researchers in the Queen's University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (QUILL) Research Centre have developed a unique new perfume delivery system which releases more of its aroma when it comes into contact with moisture, meaning a person smells nicer when their sweat levels increase.

Earlier this week, a team of scientists revealed he first unpowered wearable exoskeleton that decreases the energy required to walk. The ankle exo, as they call it, is stunningly simple: It acts as an auxiliary calf muscle, using little more than a straightforward spring and a mechanical ratchet that either tightly or loosely grips that spring, depending on the motion of your walking foot. Wearing the ankle exo decreases the energy a person expends when walking by 7 percent.

South Korea will move to start producing and selling products using graphene by as early as 2017, becoming one of the world’s first countries to commercialize the new advanced material, the government said Monday. Graphene is an atom-thin sheet of carbon that can transmit electric currents by up to 1 million times faster than conventional conductors, such as copper, and has twice the strength of diamonds.

Computers used to consume whole rooms, but now one computer can fit on the edge of a nickel. At just one millimeter cubed, the Michigan Micro Mote is believed to be the smallest autonomous computer in the world. For over a decade, the faculty and students at the University of Michigan's computer science department have been working on the M^3. As the Internet of Things (IoT) gets bigger, the Michigan team is pushing to make computers ever smaller.

ShakeAlert, the West Coast’s scientific-grade detector, has been in development for roughly a decade—stalled by limited financial resources. However, a new study in Science Advances suggests GPS, found in thousands of smartphones, could give scientists a surprisingly accurate read on seismic activity. And crowdsourced GPS earthquake detection could work alongside existing systems, to help fill in the gap.

Xergio Córdoba is a sound engineer from Spain who has patented a system that uses psychoacoustics to allow concert halls and nightclubs to boost their volume while still maintaining the same dBA. The invention is called Masn´live© and it's basically a processor that, once inserted into any sound system, allows you to enjoy music at its intended quality without breaking any noise laws.

As the Hubble Space Telescope marks its 25th year in orbit, its successor is literally taking shape in a large room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. There, engineers clad in white anti-contamination suits, masks and gloves are carefully assembling and testing a telescope that will peer even deeper into space and see light from events that are even closer to the beginning of the universe.

The full benefits of autonomous cars—a drastic drop in fatal crashes, more efficient driving, the chance to master Clash of Clans while commuting—are at least five years away. Automakers and tech companies must perfect software. Insurance companies have to recalculate premiums. Regulators are thinking up fresh rules. But one part of the puzzle’s been solved: the hardware. The physical elements crucial for seeing and navigating the world have been developed.

2013 was a record year for patent lawsuits, which have been rising rapidly. As University of Iowa law professor Jason Rantenan recently pointed out, "in the 16 years from 1994 until 2010, the annual number of patent lawsuit filings doubled; it doubled again in the three years from 2010 to 2013." Today Google announced a new initiative to try and keep patents out of the hands of patent trolls, entities whose only business is amassing intellectual property and filing lawsuits.

Fast Company’s Mark Wilson got to exercise his desire to create his own “car” in an episode of their Creative Director for a Day series. Behold the Lane Splitter concept: a car that splits down the middle into two motorcycles. As the title of the series suggests, Mark visits various companies and stalls their operations for a day, highlighting the process companies like Taco Bell or, in this case, Cadillac go through to take an idea from its inception to the product-line.

Its easy to take Wi-Fi for granted (as long as you have the password). But what if it did more than facilitate your Pinterest habit? What if instead of just connecting your devices to the Internet, it charged them as well, no wires required? That’s the promise of new research from a team at the University of Washington, which has developed what it’s calling a “power over Wi-Fi” system that can recharge batteries through the air, from up to 28 feet away.

A new bionic eye lens currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision, at any age.The lens, named the Ocumetics Bionic Lens, was developed by Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist in British Columbia who was looking for a way to optimize eyesight regardless of a person’s health or age. With this remarkable lens, patients would have perfect vision, ending the need for driving glasses, progressive lenses, and contacts, all of which are set to become a dim memory as the eye-care industry...

Researchers at CUNY and Tulane University have developed a biodegradable, plant-based chemical to round up oil spills. When oil tankers crash and inevitably spill oil into the open seas, a go-to clean-up method is corralling the rapidly spreading oil and burning it. But in some places, like the ice-strewn Arctic ocean, physically corralling that oil with boats and boons is practically impossible. Now, there's a better way to collect that leaked gunk—and the methods users, greener...

LED light bulbs are now affordable alternatives to other lights. How does the LED compare in terms of power, brightness and color? I wasn't the price was correct. Normally when I walk through Lowes, I check the price of LED bulbs. It seems they have always been between 11 and 15 dollars for the kind that would screw into a standard light fixture. This one said “$2.48″. That can’t be correct—but it was. At a price of under 3 dollars, this light bulb was a must buy. So I purchased it.

In Cambodia, Lucky Iron Fish has cut down the cases of anemia.

Known for its innovative concept and monitoring trends in the development of technology, IKEA has decided to make smart furniture . Their Concept Kitchen 2025 with the help of technology Turns various "gadgets" and plug-ins that aim to preserve both time and other resources. The star of their concept is definitely a "Table for living".