inventions

  • Armored pajamas protect wearer from unexpected crotch shots

    When his four-year-old son kicked him in the testicles, Hugh McGuinness didn’t get angry – he saw opportunity. It was the painful experience of an accidental nighttime kick from his son Cameron that gave him the idea for his armored pajamas. McGuinness told News.com.au: My son Cameron, who is...
  • Scientists invent robots that develop their own language!

    Ruth Schulz and her team of researchers at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, have invented a type of robots that have been designed to develop their own language. What the robots have done so far, is simply to map out a region inside a room,...
  • Australian Army Uses Segways for Target Practice

    Australia’s Marathon Robotics has come up with a clever way to give soldiers realistic target practice: they have turned a bunch of Segways into robots that move and react like real groups of people. The robots, named Segway Rovers, can be programmed to act like enemy soldiers (called insurgents...