Marriage proposals are getting to be a tricky business — now that we've got social media, everyone's trying to top everyone else's creative approach to popping the question. So what do you do when ...

Sometimes the simplest of projects end up revealing the most interesting of things, as for example is the case with [Ryo Mukai]’s light pen for the Vectrex console. It’s an extremely simple device ...

One city skyline is dazzling enough. Now imagine 15,000 of them. Researchers have done just that -- drawing 15,000 identical skylines with tiny beams of light using an innovative nanofabrication ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) The past two decades have witnessed the evolution of advanced physical probe-based nanolithography techniques for molecular printing. Dip-Pen Nanolithography (DPN) for instance is ...

Who needs a 1920×1080 OLED display when you can have an 8×8 matrix of LED goodness? That’s the question [Kathy] asked when she built this LED matrix light pen project. It looks simple enough – a ...

Pictionary Air Ditches the Erasable Markers Rather than drawing on an erasable board with a marker, Pictionary Air ships with a light-up pen allowing you to sketch in mid-air with your doodles ...

is an editor overseeing The Verge’s product reviews and service journalism programs. Dan has covered the technology world for over a decade at The Verge. What if you had a fancy new metal material ...