Keyboard jeans
Techie fashion has brought us the ear bud-equipped hoodies and the scratch-and-sniff jeans that have been turning a few head and noses. But, now there’s a new kid sashaying down that catwalk.
Continue reading… “Keyboard jeans redefines the meaning of ‘laptop’”
Nomophobia – fear of being separated from your mobile phone.
There is no doubt cell phones have become a necessity in today’s world. But, an new study reports that a large number of Britons are now suffering from ‘nomophobia’ – the fear of being separated from their mobile.
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In 2009, auto accidents caused by distracted driving left over 5,000 people killed, and 450,000 injured. With smartphone use growing rapidly, along with new developments like Facebook integration with your car’s dashboard, the number of distracted driving accidents, it would seem, has nowhere to go but up.
Continue reading… “Driverless cars and the end of distracted driving: Infographic”
Couples of different race or ethnicity made up a record 8.4 percent of all married couples in 2010.
According to a new Pew Research Center study, marriage between races and ethnic groups has reached an all-time high in the United States as public acceptance has grown.
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American authorities are afraid more counterfeits will find their way into this country, putting patients’ lives at risk.
New fears are raised that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S. after the discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United State.s
Continue reading… “Counterfeit drugs becoming big business around the world”
Beam Technologies Bluetooth-enabled toothbrush.
What is this world coming to when someone decides that your toothbrush needs to connect with your smartphone? Well, it happens to be the world we’re living in right now.
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Survey data from 2005 through 2010 and found that, on average, 7.5 million children lived with a parent abusing alcohol during any given year.
According a new government study released on Thursday, more than one in 10 U.S. children live with an alcoholic parent and are at increased risk of developing a host of health problems of their own.
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Even the most efficient washing machines on the market use a lot of energy and water, especially if warm or hot water is involved. But this revolutionary concept from designer Elie Ahovi could change all that. The Orbit ditches the soap and water for the cleaning power of dry ice. It’s also silent and only takes a few minutes per load to boot…
Continue reading… “Floating washing machine uses dry ice to clean clothes in minutes”
Google knows a thing or two about complex calculations performed across very big data sets. Which is why chemists are borrowing ideas from the search company to help them predict how substances react with each other.
PageRank is the algorithm that Google uses to determine the relevancy of links. Now, scientists from Washington State University have borrowed ideas from the code to understand how molecules interact with each other…
Continue reading… “How Google’s algorithms are solving chemistry’s trickiest calculations”
The Harvard Monolithic Bee (or “Mobee”) pops up within an assembly scaffold,
which performs more than 20 origami assembly folds.
A new technique inspired by elegant pop-up books and origami will soon allow clones of robotic insects to be mass-produced by the sheet.
Devised by engineers at Harvard, the ingenious layering and folding process enables the rapid fabrication of not just microrobots, but a broad range of electromechanical devices…
Continue reading… “New “pop-up” technique spawns robotic insects”
OLED displays being printed.
We’re already pretty much in love with OLED displays, but besides stunning picture quality and low power consumption, when they were first introduced it was promised that one day OLED panels could be actually printed. And that day has finally come.
Konica Minolta has created the first printhead that can be used for electronics manufacturing applications thanks to its incredibly small inkjets that can create drops a mere picoliter in size…
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Plants simply do some things better.
We need more trees in our cities. But our cities also need to become more like trees.
The other day I posted on why environmentalists must think like pro-athletes, inspired in part by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s work on optimal experience. As I finish up his book, I was struck by another observation—namely that the task of finding meaning in an individual’s life can be directly compared to the role of plants as “dissipative structures—organisms that collect diffuse energy from the sun and transform it into highly complex, dynamic structures.
It seems to me that the challenge of building community is very similar. We could, as a culture, do a lot worse than to learn from plants…
Continue reading… “5 things plants do better than us”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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