The summer of 1976 found my friend and I working at a large grocery store warehouse in the Midwest. We felt fortunate that the summer jobs meant a few dollars in our pockets and the manual labor kept ...

The Mijia Smart Invisible Clothes Dryer boasts an ultra-thin design measuring just 8cm wide. Its sleekness allows it to seamlessly fit into the ceiling. Thankfully, Xiaomi hasn’t sacrificed ...

It’s become increasingly clear that the fashion industry accelerates climate change, spewing out 4% of all global carbon emissions. But perhaps soon, our clothes could be redesigned to actively reduce ...

There is now a way to differentiate between designer clothing and knockoffs. Researchers have produced a thread with unique optical properties, which can be used to create invisible patterns in ...

Movie lovers know that the best costumes are invisible. Not emperor’s clothes or Wonder Woman’s plane invisible. More like the swaggering pirate Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in "Pirates of the Caribbean ...

Imagine a ship carrying goods in containers that, if lined up, would stretch around 11,000 miles long, or nearly halfway around the planet. Rose George spent several weeks aboard one such ship as ...

The tracking of things is getting better. At the National Retail Federation Big Show this week, I caught up with the folks at Digimarc, a company that adds invisible bar codes onto all kinds of ...