The bicycle has come a long way from its wooden-wheeled, pedal-free ancestors. What started as a strange contraption that ...

Jack the Ripper as we think of him, is an invention of the Victorian media. They took the complete absence of hard facts about the killer, and populated it with the period's anxieties, fantasies and ...

As the Second World War beckoned in 1939, the director of London’s National Gallery, Sir Kenneth Clark, came up with a plan: to commission a handful of carefully chosen artists to document life on the ...

Every day, hundreds of unique inventions designed to solve pressing human problems and make our lives easier, appear. However, not all devices are successful, and some of them cause only bewilderment.

Like a diabolical shopkeeper awaiting his first victim—sorry—customer of the day, I've been eagerly anticipating the release of Strange Antiquities since it was announced last year. The follow-up to ...

With hits like the Dyson Airwrap, Stanley ice cube trays, and the Ninja Creami, innovation in the 21st century is at an all-time high. Many of these inventions stand out for their clever design or ...

It has a brand name that carries with it a potent suggestion it will cut off a rapist's you-know what. That isn't exactly how the new female condom Rape aXe works. But it sure sounds like it would be ...

Director and co-writer/star draw from autobiography for a captivating, lo-fi, meta dramedy. This is thankfully not the case with “Invention,” a compact, compelling and warm fiction and documentary ...

In the heart of Staunton, Virginia, tucked between brick buildings on a charming downtown street, sits a time machine disguised as a modest storefront – the Camera Heritage Museum, where the entire ...