All Items Tagged

“Glass”

Apr 4, 2012 07:24 PM ET // Alice Truong
More details about Google's Project Glass, an augmented-reality heads-up display, are surfacing online. A Google Plus post on Wednesday showed the first design photos and a video that demonstrates the goggles' potential capabilities. The video, below, chronicles a day in the life of a man in New Yo...
Feb 10, 2012 09:31 AM ET // Alyssa Danigelis
A giant heart in New York City responds to your touch.
Jan 20, 2011 08:42 AM ET // David Teeghman
The addition of the metal palladium to glass counteracts its intrinsic brittleness.
Nov 30, 2010 04:40 PM ET // Alyssa Danigelis
Lasers are making a magical kind of LED turn all surfaces into light sources.
Oct 25, 2012 06:26 PM ET // Alice Truong
Proving that art and science aren't mutually exclusive, Gary Farlow's team at Farlow's Scientific Glassblowing reproduces breathtaking anatomically correct glass models of the human body. These intricate glass sculptures are used for teaching in medical training, able to simulate blood flow, demons...