The conductive spray paint is called Electrick. As reported by the MIT Technology Review, it was developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who sought to let regular objects act as ...

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, ...

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 ...

Nowadays we're accustomed to the slick glass touchscreens on our phones and tablets, but what if we could extend such luxury to other parts of our devices -- or to any surface, for that matter -- in a ...

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 ...

Conductive ink or paint is lots of fun. It opens up tons of possibilities for flexible and unique circuits — unfortunately, it’s pretty expensive. [Brian McEvoy] shows us how to make your own for ...

“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 ...

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 ...