Category: New Inventions

Impact Lab > New Inventions
Business, Entertainment, Great New Product, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

LG’s TV at the Next Level with the Quantum Dot

Quantum-Dot-TV

A new kind of display is about to make TV images appear even more lifelike. LG will show off a TV based on quantum-dot technology at CES 2015 in January, and the company also plans to start selling it later that year.

Quantum-dot tech uses extremely tiny crystals — measuring 2 to 10 nanometers — to generate light. (That’s so small that the tiniest crystals are only about 20 atoms thick.) Different-size crystals generate different colors, and the size of the crystals can be controlled precisely. As a result, quantum-dot displays can reproduce color that’s even better and more accurate than OLED screens, the current leading tech for advanced TVs.

Continue reading… “LG’s TV at the Next Level with the Quantum Dot”

Crazy Stuff, Energy, Great New Product, Hot Issues, Nanotechnology, New Discoveries, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

The First Lady of Graphene

graphene-2

The birthplace of graphene – the one-atom-thick carbon – is Manchester University, where it was created by two physicists. But Cambridge could become the adopted home of the so-called wonder-material.

A vast new facility that can make up to five tons of the ultra-valuable black dust each year is being built in the city and is due to open in 2015.

Cambridge Nanosystems, a university spin-out, led by chief scientist Catharina Paukner, 30, has built the factory with the help of a £500,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board.

Continue reading… “The First Lady of Graphene”

App, Crazy Photos, Crazy Stuff, Fashion, Great New Product, Human Behavior, Internet, Latest Trend, Medical Breakthrough, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Turn Your Skin into a Touch Screen

cicret_2 7gqw5f3

A paris-based design company is looking to take the wearable devices trend to the next level with the visualization of ‘cicret‘, a bracelet that projects the screen of your smartphone directly onto your wrist. currently in the prototype phase, the wristband remotely hooks up to a mobile device and emits the interface onto the wearer’s arm, allowing them to read emails, play games, answer calls and check the weather on the surface of the skin.

Continue reading… “Turn Your Skin into a Touch Screen”

App, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Energy, Environment, Great New Product, Latest Trend, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

Which Smart Home Device will be Under your Tree this Year?

smart-home-devices 3rj6

Apple’s splash into home automation with addition of HomeKit to iOS 8 is expected to have a huge impact on sales of smart home devices in 2015 according to a Park Associates report that found 37% of U.S. Households plan to purchase one or more devices next year.

Continue reading… “Which Smart Home Device will be Under your Tree this Year?”

Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Breakthrough Thinking, Crazy Stuff, Culture, DaVinci Institute, Education, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, Human Behavior, Latest Trend, Medical Breakthrough, New Discoveries, New Inventions, New Viewpoints, Robotics, Science & Technology News, Tom Frey

Our Newest Unit of Measure – 1 Human Intelligence Unit – and Why it will Never Happen

1-HIU-2

Futurist Thomas Frey: I’ve been closely watching the debate on artificial intelligence with people like Rodney Brooks saying it’s only a tool, and others like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking giving bone chilling warnings of how it could lead to the destruction of all humanity.

Continue reading… “Our Newest Unit of Measure – 1 Human Intelligence Unit – and Why it will Never Happen”

Great New Product, Great Videos, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

ComfortWay – Smart iPhone case that offers all-day data roaming for just $2

comfortway

ComfortWay

If you travel a lot internationally you more than likely have been stung by roaming Internet charges at some point or another. It’s possible to buy or rent a local SIM card when you’re abroad but this requires that your iPhone be either unlocked or jailbroken — and also limits users to just one mobile carrier in each country. (Video)

 

 

Continue reading… “ComfortWay – Smart iPhone case that offers all-day data roaming for just $2”

Analysis, Award Winner, Great Videos, Health & Fitness, Medical Breakthrough, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

rHEALTH diagnoses hundreds of diseases using a single drop of blood

rHEALTH-diagnostic-device

rHealth Device

This month, the XPRIZE Foundation announced the winner of the Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE. The global competition was aimed at accelerating the availability of hardware sensors and software sensing technology as a means to smarter digital health solutions. The winning device is called the Reusable Handheld Electrolyte and Lab Technology for Humans (rHEALTH) system. It can potentially run hundreds or even thousands of lab tests using a single drop of blood, and those tests, in turn, can be used to diagnose a range of diseases. (Video)

Continue reading… “rHEALTH diagnoses hundreds of diseases using a single drop of blood”

Analysis, Great Videos, Health & Fitness, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Robots, Science & Technology News

Micro-scallop robots can swim through your blood, eyeballs

micro-scallop

A micro-scallop robot is only a fraction of a millimeter in size.

Simplicity is important when designing robots on the micro or nano scale (like, small enough to fit inside your body). There just isn’t room for complex motors or actuation systems. There’s barely room for any electronics whatsoever, not to mention batteries, which is why robots that can swim inside your bloodstream or zip around your eyeballs are often driven by magnetic fields.(Video)

 

Continue reading… “Micro-scallop robots can swim through your blood, eyeballs”

Energy, New Inventions, Science & Technology News, Solar Power

New hybrid solar cell battery could solve solar power’s energy storage problem

solar-panel-houses1

Researchers at Ohio State University have created a new hybrid device that can act both as a solar cell and as a battery storing that energy.

Scientists, entrepreneurs and government leaders are pushing to develop cheap, clean energy as the world seeks out alternatives to fossil fuels.

Continue reading… “New hybrid solar cell battery could solve solar power’s energy storage problem”

Great New Product, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

New microscope captures ultra-high-resolution movies of live 3D biomolecules

microtubules-in-mitosis

A single HeLa cell in metaphase (during mitosis), imaged by a lattice light sheet microscope.

A new imaging platform called a “lattice light sheet” developed by Nobel laureate Eric Betzig and colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus is a significant leap forward for light microscopy. It captures high-resolution images rapidly and minimizes damage to cells, so it can image the three-dimensional activity of molecules, cells, and embryos in fine detail over longer periods than was previously possible, according to the HHMI scientists. (Videos)

 

 

Continue reading… “New microscope captures ultra-high-resolution movies of live 3D biomolecules”

3D Printer, New Inventions, People Making a Difference, Science & Technology News

3D printed maps will enable the blind to navigate their city

3d maps

3D printed map.

While modern technology has benefited most of us by turning the things we consume from physical object into pixels on a screen, those with sight difficulties don’t get along well with visual stimuli or touchscreen devices. We have seen Yahoo! Japan develop Hands On Search, a project that lets blind kids carry out web searches with 3D printed results. Now the country’s governmental department GSI is creating software that will enable those with visual impairments to print out 3D versions of online maps.

 

 

Continue reading… “3D printed maps will enable the blind to navigate their city”

Discover the Hidden Patterns of Tomorrow with Futurist Thomas Frey
Unlock Your Potential, Ignite Your Success.

By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.

Learn More about this exciting program.