A group of students who came up with an electrically conductive paint for an art project using research from Wikipedia are seeing their product take off around the the world. Four years ago the Royal ...

Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night is one of the most well-known paintings in the world and is often regarded as among the best. It depicts a stylized view of van Gogh’s view from his asylum room, ...

Linear thinking yields linear results, but that does not necessarily ensure success. True innovation demands nonlinear thinking, which, more often than not, emerges from goal-oriented play and ...

It looks like something straight out of a children’s activity book. You trace a tube of puff paint-like ink through a maze of lines, and then you rip apart a few perforated paper sections. A few ...

“Painting a sensor” has a funny ring to it. While the rise of 3D printer has made unusual manufacturing techniques more popular in the maker space, the ability to paint a device still seems like ...

Bare Conductive’s primary product–recently highlighted by Mashable, among other outlets–is a thick, gooey black paint that includes carbon. The carbon in the mixture means that, when you apply the ...

Touchscreen smartphones and tablets are so intuitive that even babies can easily learn how to use them. So why can’t any object work like a touchscreen? Everything from guitars to Jell-O might soon be ...

Researchers have synthesized electrically conductive polyaniline polymer in common organic solvents. A small quantity of added iodine facilitates the radical chain reaction that is critical to polymer ...

In an age where food can be assembled by a printer and bacteria can be engineered to produce gold, surely talking billboards cannot be that far away. A team of students from London’s Royal College of ...

Vegemite is an Australian staple – a rich, protein-filled sandwich spread with a strong salty flavor. It serves as a great way to add a little umami to any dish, which is the hottest open secret in ...