Ellis Robinson is obsessed with bikes. So it was a perfect fit when he discovered Mayapedal, a non-governmental organization that provides bikes and bicycle-powered machines to a small Guatemalan ...

Laundry workouts might soon be the new fitness trend, thanks to a new invention by a group of students at China’s Dalian National University. They’ve created a washer that’s powered by a stationary ...

Have you ever wanted to save electricity, wash your Calvins and get in a spin class at the same time? Well, thanks to a bunch of kids at China's Dalian Nationalities University, you may be able to in ...

While slaving over a load of laundry, shlepping a pile of clothes to and from your washer and dryer, have you ever stopped, looked up and thought, "You know what? I really wish I was exercising right ...

First there was the exercise ball desk chair, then the recumbent bicycle desk. Now, from a Chinese university, comes the exercise-bike-powered clothes washer -- the latest in multitasking fitness gear ...

A portable washing machine that attaches to almost any bicycle exists, and people can’t stop talking about it on Twitter. Called the SpinCycle, the device was designed with the intention of saving ...

An innovative bicycle-powered water pump, created by a student in the UK, has proved a huge success and is now in regular production in Guatemala, transforming the lives of rural residents. An ...

SEHORE, India - Indian professor Anil Gupta has spent decades scouring the Indian countryside searching for unsung inventors in rural villages. He works in the belief that the most powerful ideas for ...