Robot arms are getting smarter and smarter all the time, and now a team from Georgia Tech has taught them how to make their own tools. These resourceful robots are first taught to match form and ...

Can be used to deflect bullets and render enemy combatants unconscious. (Good thing this particular tray happened to be made out of metal.) Not really a "simple" tool, but you can't deny he looks ...

They say the best camera is the one you have with you, but the same must go for tools. What’s the point of filling a home workshop full of expensive equipment when it’s all but useless when you walk ...

Form Us With Love “designed” DIY Tools for the latest issue of the German magazine Süddeutsche Zeitung, which asked a bunch of European firms to come up with makeshift DIY designs for home living.

This 15 function multi-tool from Frog Tool seems like it can do anything. Definitely something to throw in the glove-box or desk drawer for an impromptu situation. Just check out all that the ...

With our DIY Week coming to a close, we thought we'd ask Lee David Zlotoff, creator of MacGyver and inspiration to clever makers and hackers everywhere, to share some of his thoughts on DIY, fix-all ...

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The course of true innovation never did run smooth. For every conceptual technology that promises to revolutionise your business, there's the thorny business of testing applications and building ...

US engineers begin work on tenacious, tool-finding MacGyver robot A team of US-based engineers, funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and DARPA, has begun the development of a MacGyverbot -- a ...

HAMMOND, La. (KPIX 5) -- Fans of the hit CBS Friday night show 'MacGyver' may wonder: how many of the title character's creative contraptions are based on real science? And can any of them be made at ...