Firefly
Remember warm summer evenings as a child, seeing flashes of light flutter around you, illuminating the night sky and capturing your attention and imagination? Recapture those magical moments with the Firefly social illuminated band. Firefly allows you to start conversations and keeps the social atmosphere interesting. (Video)
A dual-carbon battery from a brand new startup out of Japan.
A young Japanese startup called Power Japan Plus, or PJP, has a new type of battery under development that lasts longer, is safer, charges faster and is less expensive than a standard lithium ion battery. The year-old company uses carbon for both the anode and the cathode portion of the battery and hopes to start producing it later this year.
Continue reading… “Japanese startup unveils a long-lasting and safer dual-carbon battery”
Luna Wash
It doesn’t matter if you live in a sprawling mansion or a tiny apartment, one thing is for sure, you know laundry day will be a long and laborious task. But a new concept washing machine, developed for this year’s Electrolux Design Challenge, aims to change that. This is the Luna Wash, the in-hamper washing machine.
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Mink printer
Grace Choi decided to disrupt the beauty industry when she was attending Harvard Business School. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors. (Video)
Continue reading… “Grace Choi figures out how to 3D print makeup from any home computer”
A plastic panel that can harvest light when it hangs off the edge of a rooftop, redirecting sunshine down into dark urban streets below.
Cities keep getting taller as they run out of buildable space. A record number of skyscrapers are planned in London, places like Bangkok and Panama City have dozens of new towers under construction, and Mumbai is building more skyscrapers than anywhere else in the world.
Continue reading… “Simple device designed to pull sunlight down to dark city streets”
Cree T8 bulb
In the scramble to replace traditional forms of illumination with greener LED sources, Cree has just announced the release of a new type of tube light designed to tackle one of the biggest energy hogs in Corporate America: fluorescent overhead lights.
Continue reading… “Cree LED tubes will make fluorescent lights seem old fashioned”
Lix 3D Pen
The world’s smallest 3D printing pen allows people to write and draw in the air. (Photos and video)
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Researchers have created a glass fabric-based thermoelectric generator wearable technology.
A team of South Korean researchers have developed technology that could one day power your smartphone using just body heat.
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3D printed interactive speaker
What if every object in your life could talk? A door handle warns you when someone has attempted to enter without a key. A desk ticks off your appointments when you sit down. A rubber duck quacks at a child in the tub, then his pillow sings him a lullaby to sleep. (Video)
Continue reading… “Disney ‘s new 3-D printing technique turns any object into a speaker”
The SCiO is a handheld molecular analyzer.
If you wanted to look up the calorie content of a specific food you are eating you could take it to a lab and run it through a spectrometer. But accurate spectrometers are huge, expensive machines that are often only owned by institutions and require training to use. A new startup, however, wants to make it easy as running an app and pairing a bluetooth dongle. (Video)
Continue reading… “$150 smartphone spectrometer can tell the number of calories in your food”
Aerographite
Scientists are always on the look out for lighter, stronger, and more energy-efficient materials. Here’s a glance at some materials that will change the way we build things in the future.
Superhydrophobic Engineered Cementitious Composite
A new advanced water-repellant concrete impregnated with tiny super strong fibers promises to leave roads and bridges free of major cracks for up to 120 years. (Video)
Continue reading… “New water-repellant concrete could last more than 100 years without maintenance”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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