Neodymium magnets based generators

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Neodymium magnet is the most widely used type of rare-earth magnet. It is a permanent magnet made from an alloy of neodymium, iron, and boron. To put their strength into perspective, they can produce magnetic fields with up to 1.4 teslas. Neodymium, of course, is a rare-earth element featuring the atomic number 60. https://youtu.be/bnWCwZ1SVog Neodymium magnets are more suitable for producing alternative and renewable energy. Neodymium based generators don’t require an external sourc...
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Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)

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Tensor Processing Unit is an AI accelerator application-specific integrated circuit developed by Google specifically for neural network machine learning, particularly using Google's own TensorFlow software. Machine learning has produced business and research breakthroughs ranging from network security to medical diagnoses.  Cloud TPU is the custom-designed machine learning ASIC that powers Google products like Translate, Photos, Search, Assistant, and Gmail.  https://youtu.be/MXxN4fv0...
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‘Les Merveilloeufs ‘ – Vigan Egg (Papondu). A plant-based alternative

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Papondu, the vegetable alternative that replaces the egg in your recipes The idea for Papondu was born in 2017, when Philippine and Sheryline, two engineer biologists, asked people who adopted a vegan diet what they lacked. The answer was clear: it's the eggs! They have also become aware of the number of people who are intolerant or allergic to eggs and have taken on the challenge of developing a plant-based egg substitute. Papondu, the vegetable alternative that replaces the egg in y...
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‘Freeze Drying’ for food preservation for up to 25 years without preservatives or the need for refrigeration.

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Freeze drying, also known as lyophilisation or cryodesiccation, is a low temperature dehydration process that involves freezing the product, lowering pressure, then removing the ice by sublimation. This is in contrast to dehydration by most conventional methods that evaporate water using heat. Freeze drying used for food preservation Freeze-drying is a special form of drying that removes all moisture and tends to have less of an effect on a food's taste than normal dehydration does. In fr...
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Pepper Robot that can read emotions

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Pepper is the world's first social humanoid robot able to recognize faces and basic human emotions. Pepper was optimized for human interaction and is able to engage with people through conversation and his touch screen.  The emotional robot. Cognitive computing and the quest for artificial intelligence. Humans and computers are fundamentally different. Apart from the ungainly exterior of the latter, the main difference is the way in which they process information. Computers follow the...
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InTechOpen – global publisher of Journals and Books within the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine. Built by scientists, for scientists.

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IntechOpen, the world's leading publisher of Open Access books - Built by scientists, for scientists provides a collaborative environment for peer-reviewed scientific content and book publishing of academic research, giving scientific thinking its home. It offers to Read, share and download more than 5,200 peer-reviewed Open Access books It's community, consisting of more than 118,000 like-minded IntechOpen Authors and Academic Editors, was founded for scientists, by scientists. It's Auth...
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TerraPower – advanced nuclear reactors that will provide carbon-free energy

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TerraPower is a nuclear reactor design company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, United States. TerraPower’s innovators are inspired to create technologies to provide safe, affordable and abundant carbon-free energy. They devise ways to use heat and steam to drive economic growth while decarbonizing industry. And they develop processes to extract radioisotopes for medical use in lifesaving cancer treatments. Their team combines unparalleled technical and engineering expertise, ex...
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ComCrop -Singapore’s commercial urban rooftop farming unit

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ComCrop is Singapore’s urban farming pioneer, and we grow food on rooftops near where communities live by reinvigorating marginalized spaces and embracing marginalized workforces to grow and harvest the highest quality pesticide-free produce in Singapore. Building Sustainability in Singapore ComCrop currently produces over 150kg of leafy greens every month and they are scaling up. ComCorp uses advanced hydroponic technology that uses 90% less water than traditional farming, which makes...
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‘Flavonoids’ provide good health benefits

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Flavonoids are a group of plant metabolites thought to provide health benefits through cell signalling pathways and antioxidant effects. These molecules are found in a variety of fruits and vegetables. Flavonoids are polyphenolic molecules containing 15 carbon atoms and are soluble in water. These natural products are well known for their beneficial effects on health and efforts are being made to isolate the ingredients so called flavonoids. Flavonoids are now considered as an indispensa...
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Neural Processing Unit (NPU)

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A neural processor or a neural processing unit (NPU) is a specialized circuit that implements all the necessary control and arithmetic logic necessary to execute machine learning algorithms, typically by operating on predictive models such as artificial neural networks (ANNs) or random forests (RFs) In Brain - Neural processes is the one that drive coordinated movement, attention, perception, reasoning, and intelligent behavior result from learning and memory. So the computational mechan...
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Rocket Lab – private aerospace manufacturer and small satellite launch service provider

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Rocket Lab is a private American aerospace manufacturer and small satellite launch service provider with a wholly owned New Zealand subsidiary. It developed a sub-orbital sounding rocket named Ātea and currently operates a lightweight orbital rocket known as Electron, which provides dedicated launches for smallsats and CubeSats. Rocket labs is enabling companies, students, scientists, researchers, governments and entrepreneurs alike to get their ideas to orbit, right now. A solar syst...
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‘ZED Fellowship’ for learners and aspiring aerospace professionals

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Zed Factor Fellowship is a new fellowship for aerospace professionals from under-represented groups. Founded by a group of space professionals from diverse backgrounds, the Zed Factor Fellowship empowers and engages learners and aspiring aerospace professionals from underrepresented backgrounds through hands-on, practical experiences working in and contributing to the leading companies of the aerospace community. ZFF fellows create and conduct their own community service project, ampl...
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LeoLabs – mapping platform for space, for objects in low Earth orbit

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LeoLabs is building a global network of radar arrays that can track smaller debris than we can today, and with better precision. With their network of ground-based, phased array radars, LeoLabs produces high-resolution data on objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), providing unparalleled support for industries that rely on satellite services. Tracking & Monitoring The commercial off-the-shelf tracking service providing automated, independent monitoring for satellites - even those small...
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‘Embryonics’ uses AI to identify healthy embryos and increase IVF success

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Embryonics is developing and applying data-driven solutions to improve the journey and the success rates of fertility treatments. https://youtu.be/pN5R4EbkbKU The process of fertilizing a human egg outside the body in order to help those suffering from infertility to conceive is known as in vitro fertilization (IVF). Despite being the most effective method of assisted reproductive technology (ART), the average success rate of IVF is a mere 20-40%. One step that is critical to the succes...
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‘Photopheresis’ medical treatment

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Photopheresis is a form of apheresis and photodynamic therapy in which blood is treated with a photosensitizing agent and subsequently irradiated with specified wavelengths of light to achieve an effect.  Photopheresis, also known as extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP), is a medical treatment that removes blood via a machine and isolates white blood cells. Then, these white cells are exposed to a medication called 8-methoxypsoralen followed by UVA irradiation before returning the blood to the...
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University Of Pennsylvania’s researcher Mohsen Azadi and his team levitate object using light.

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At University of Pennsylvania in the mechanical engineer Igor Bargatin’s lab, Mohsen Azadi and his team were able to successfully demonstrate levitation of an object using light. Team built a "nanocardboard,” a material that’s as thin as a few strands of DNA and weighs less than a thousandth of a gram, but stiff enough to resist flopping for levitation. Crookes radiometer - also known as a light mill, the instrument is essentially a glass bulb under partial vacuum with paper vanes that are b...
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BMW Vision iNEXT concept Car.

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BMW Vision iNext concept is an electric car capable of autonomous driving. It will be a level 5 self driving car capable of driving itself—without a steering wheel. Drivers will have much more control over how they use their time on the road. https://youtu.be/aJNTRAbESMo The BMW Vision iNEXT is fully electric, fully connected and offers highly autonomous driving. The series-production model, set to become the company’s new technology flagship, will be built at BMW Group Plant Dingol...
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Dubai ROBO Cafe – Run entirely by a staff of robots

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The cafe is run by three robotic arms, efficient enough to operate in fixed directions to deliver food and beverages to the customers. The whole concept is completely contactless and has zero human intervention. All you need to do is enter he cafe, grab a seat in one of the futuristic furnitures, and place your order through the tab. https://youtu.be/HXY5m1qr1NY The robotic arm will then pick and prepare you food. Once your food is ready, a smaller robotic arm carefully brings it ri...
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CubeSat – miniature satellites

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A CubeSat (U-class spacecraft) is a type of miniaturized satellite for space research that is made up of multiple cubic modules of 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm size. CubeSats are a class of nanosatellites that use a standard size and form factor.  The standard CubeSat size uses a "one unit" or "1U" measuring 10x10x10 cms and is extendable to larger sizes; 1.5, 2, 3, 6, and even 12U.  Originally developed in 1999 by California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo (Cal Poly) and Stanford U...
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Panasonic self-driving electric wheelchair

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All Nippon Airways (ANA) Japan and Panasonic Corporation will work together to test self-driving electric wheelchairs, as part of a far-reaching plan to increase mobility and accessibility options at Tokyo Narita International Airport. Incorporating robotic elements, these wheelchairs will be capable to safely navigate through the airport independently, making them an ideal mobility solution for passengers connecting flights. The robots are equipped with an automatic braking syste...
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AutoSlide – UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC SLIDING DOOR OPENER FOR EXISTING SLIDING DOORS

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Autoslide automatic sliding door opener technology creates easier access in and out of your home and between rooms inside. The original Autoslide smart door opener opens a single-panel door and the MultiDrive system automates both single and multi-panel doors. Both offer a wide variety of activation options to enable touchless accessibility. Use for sliding patio doors, pet doors, disabled accessible automatic door opener, barn doors and sliding windows. Autoslide's safety reverse featur...
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ColdSnap – On-demand frozen treats. Icecream machine with PODS for frozen treats, including soft-serve ice cream, froyo, smoothies, protein shakes, coffees

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ColdSnap - Is and on-demand frozen treats maker. It's an Icecream machine which has PODS for frozen treats, including soft-serve ice cream, froyo, smoothies, protein shakes, coffees. Instant ice cream machine that you can use at home to produce frozen desserts in under 60 seconds. Unlike other ice cream makers, the ColdSnap doesn't require mixing ingredients or freezing them.  ColdSnap™ is a rapid freezing appliance that produces single servings of frozen...
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Google FIT – heart and respiratory rate monitoring using app and cameras on an Android phone.

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Google FIT now lets you measure your heart and respiratory rate using the Google Fit app and cameras on an Android phone. To measure the number of breaths you take per minute, Google Fit is using your Android device’s front-facing camera. To measure respiratory rate, or the breaths you take per minute, open the latest version of the Google Fit app and simply point your Pixel phone's front-facing camera at your head and chest. Google is measuring your respiratory rate by detecting small...
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‘AppSheet’ -no-code development platform for application software & ‘CDATA’ – real-time data integration connectors

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AppSheet provides a no-code development platform for application software, which allows users to create mobile, tablet, and web applications using data sources like Google Drive, DropBox, Office 365, and other cloud-based spreadsheet and database platforms. no-code. AppSheet's no-code app building platform allows you to quickly build apps to collect, or connect to, data. Data DisplayAppSheet data can be displayed in graphical and interactive formats. Common data views include tables, form...
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‘ClicBot’- modular robotics kit that allows you to build your robot.

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ClicBot is robotics kit that allows you to build your robot your way. Learn programming and build over 1000 robots with one kit. Equipped with unique advanced intelligence technology, this coding robot can dance and drive. Lots of reactions gives ClicBot diverse personalities, making it a real companion. No-coding Robotics: Easy to build your own robot IN FIVE MINUTES. Awake your robot friend and bring it alive without coding. Teaching mode is friendly for beginners. Worry-free ab...
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NFC Tags

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Near Field Communication (NFC) is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4cm or less to initiate a connection. NFC allows you to share small payloads of data between an NFC tag and an Android-powered device, or between two Android-powered devices. Tags can range in complexity. Simple tags offer just read and write semantics, sometimes with one-time-programmable areas to make the card read-only. More complex tags offer math operations, and have cryptogra...
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‘Intel RealSense’ – gives machines and devices depth perceptions capabilities

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Intel RealSense Technology is a product range of depth and tracking technologies designed to give machines and devices depth perceptions capabilities. The technology, owned by Intel are used in autonomous drones, robots, AR/VR, smart home devices amongst many others broad market products. The RealSense product is made of Vision Processors, Depth and Tracking Modules, and Depth Cameras, supported by an open source, cross-platform SDK, simplifying supporting cameras for third party softwar...
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‘KroniKare’ – Mobile diagnostic tool, for automatic assessing and managing chronic wounds.

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KroniKare is an AI-based assessment and management technology for chronic wound care. The first step in using KroniKare is to assess a patient’s chronic wound using the scanning device. This wound is then cross-analysed against more than 15 years of data that has been integrated within the AI server. Within 30 seconds, a report is generated with a detailed assessment on the wound, allowing healthcare practitioners and patients to make quicker decisions about the best care and treatment ...
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‘3D Bioprinting’ – use bioink to print living structures.

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3D Bioprinting is a form of additive manufacturing that uses cells and other biocompatible materials as “inks”, also known as bioinks, to print living structures layer-by-layer which mimic the behavior of natural living systems. Three dimensional bioprinting is the utilization of 3D printing–like techniques to combine cells, growth factors, and biomaterials to fabricate biomedical parts that maximally imitate natural tissue characteristics. 3D bioprinting can be used to reconstruct tissue...
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‘HAI Dock’ -Turn Your Apple Device Into a Music Server!

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The HAI (Home Automation Inc.) Dock allows users to access music on an iPod through IP-enabled devices over a wired or wireless network. When connected to a Hi-Fi 2 by HAI distributed audio system, the connected iPod or iPhone becomes a source that can be played in any audio zone connected to the Hi-Fi 2.  It is available in two versions, a hardwired Ethernet (HAI96A00-1) and a Wi-Fi (HAI96A00-2) version.  The attached iPod/iPhone is controlled from IP-enabled devices including HAI OmniTo...
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