By using drones to plant forests of seedlings, a start-up plans to help solve the world’s climate problems. Lauren Fletcher, the founder of BioCarbon Engineering says, “We are going to counter industrial scale deforestation using industrial scale reforestation.” Continue reading… “Planting a billion trees a year using drones?”
How does it feel to be invisible? At Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet neuroscientists have figured out. Continue reading… “Creating the sensation of invisibility”
Last week, according to police, a Japanese man was arrested for allegedly flying a small drone with traces of radioactivity onto the roof of the Japanese prime minister’s office. Continue reading… “Man arrested in Japan for drone found on PM’s office roof”
Engineers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science have created a 4D printer. Not a printer that can print in the 4th dimension, rather, it means they are building objects that can change based on the physics of the materials used. Continue reading… “The future of printing: 4D printers”
Matternet, a company working on perfecting drone-based delivery systems, will be helping the Swiss postal service, Swiss Post, in attempting drone deliveries for the first time ever. Continue reading… “Matternet to test drone delivery system in Switzerland”
Last year a group of Swiss artists thought it would be cool to program a bot to scour the “dark web” and buy $100 worth of random goods each week using a regular Bitcoin allowance. Items purchased by the robot include a Hungarian passport, a baseball hat that had a hidden camera installed, someone’s entire Lord of the Rings eBook collection, and some ecstasy tablets. Continue reading… “Cops arrest robot that bought ecstasy with Bitcoins”
A huge amount of money will be spent on video games in 2015. According to an upcoming report from research firm Newzoo, the global gaming market will reach $91.5 billion this year.
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Continue reading… “$91.5 billion will be spent globally on video games this year”
The days of cramming into the middle seat, engaging in the passive-aggressive skirmish for the armrests, if Thompson Aero Seating has its way, will be long gone. Continue reading… “An airplane middle seat that is halfway-pleasant”
Life today in Mueller—an innovative suburb of Austin, Tex., seems like something out of the distant future. New homes wired with the latest smart gadgets cluster together around shared park spaces. Blue-black panels that transform sunshine into electricity grace a majority of roofs. Electric cars or hybrids glide silently to rest in garages. Continue reading… “Is it possible for the U.S. to go all-electric?”
Maglev train operator Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) says one of its seven car trains hit a top speed of 603kph (375mph), and managed nearly 11 seconds at faster than 600kph. Continue reading… “Japanese maglev train hits 603kph in test run, sets record”
According to studies and anecdotal evidence, most of us check our phones a lot, probably hundreds of times a day. Do this takes a toll on our battery life, and most phones wont make if though the day without needing to be charged. Continue reading… “An e-ink display on the back of your iPhone”
Executives most likely spend a lot of time thinking about how the internet and automation are changing the nature of employment, but they rarely wonder how technology will have an impact much closer to home: on their own jobs. Continue reading… “How managers could be replaced by software”
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