Big buttons. A simple display. Rounded corners. Yep, with a design like that, it's definitely for grandma. It's even named as such: 6380 Senior Mobile Phone. Don't let its bland screen and simple design fool you, though, as it does...

Nissan's new concept design for a personal mobility device sure is, well, interesting. It looks like a pair of roller skates connected to ski poles, and it supposedly lifts your feet and walks for you, like automated stilts. Sure it...

This is the GE VScan portable ultrasound machine. Yes, it looks almost exactly like a flip phone, but you can't make any calls on it. Instead, it's designed to make giving ultrasounds cheaper and easier, reducing the number of referrals...

Not just gadgets, either — Sniff can identify and react to anything that's appropriately labeled with an RFID tag. It's the same kind of thought processes driving technologies like the Tikitag, where each tag triggers a specific response. When it...