Niwa is the first fully automated hydroponic system that attends to all of your plants’ needs so you don’t have to. Niwa will water them, feed them and make sure they have optimal growing conditions 24/7. You’ll never have to worry about your home garden again! Just sit back, relax and watch your plants thrive, knowing that everything is being taken care of. It enables anybody to grow their own food and plants from their mobile interface in a small city apartment space. Niwa was designed t...

Beam is a platform that utilizes a connected toothbrush, the Beam Brush, to connect consumers to the dental goods and services they need. Beam helps to make each level of the dental service chain accessible, and cost effective, for all people. Beam Toothbrush features Bluetooth™ 4.0 and sonic power technology that can be dynamically controlled to the user’s preference. The Beam Brush completely reimagines the routine of brushing teeth, instead creating an enjoyable experience for all differen...

VESSYL is a new smart cup that automatically knows and tracks everything you drink The Vessyl knows and aggregates the makeup of everything  you drink. No more guessing or journaling. It keeps track of what you are drinking automatically. In most cases, Vessyl can detect the brand and you will see the specific brands and flavors of what you are drinking when you open the app. In certain cases, like 100% apple juice, when there are no significant differences between brands, the app will not...

After thousands of years in which buildings have been static, David Fisher’s Dynamic Skyscraper is an important step ahead towards Future Architecture.  The Rotating Tower brings three main futuristic aspects, three revolutions. The first revolutionary aspect is related to the shape of the building, which changes continuously.  It is “Architecture as Part of the Environment”, adjusting to the sun and the wind, to the view and to our momentary requirements. Each floor, in fact, can rotate separ...

sQuba is the worlds first self diving car that is able to drive on roads autonomously with a push of a button (thus without a driver, passenger or further assistance), but can also transform into an amphibious vehicle which can be submerged in water up to 10 meters (33 feet). An electric motor with powerful torque drives the rear wheels, while the propulsion on the water is ensured by two propellers in the stern and two powerful jet drives in the bow propelling the vehicle under water while d...

Dubai will soon be home to the Water Discus Hotels. Comprised of two disc shaped buildings, one will be completely underwater while the other will be above the surface. Designed by Deep Ocean Technology, the company states the combination will allow guests to experience "the depths of the ocean while making the most of the warm climate. The two parts of the structure are connected by five solid legs and a vertical shaft containing a lift and stairway." The incredible property will be surro...

Cambrian Innovation has developed an advanced environmental solutions using biotechnology  Wastewater Treatment System. With a core competence in microbial energy conversion, electro chemistry, and bio-electro-chemical systems, Cambrian Innovation’s helps industrial, government, and agricultural customers monitor their operations and recover energy, resources, and clean water from process water and waste water streams, maximizing return on investment and minimizing environmental impact. EcoVo...

IBM wants to bring together citizens, city leaders and smart ideas—in order to spark positive change in cities all around the world. Because we know a smart idea in one city can make any city smarter, we created a place to share those ideas and connect the leaders and forward thinkers who will put them to work. If you’re a citizen, you can share smart ideas to improve cities. If you’re a city leader, you can gain insights. With the right information at your fingertips, you can make better dec...

An extremely abundant and promising source of energy exists in the world’s oceans. Ocean energy exists in the forms of wave, tidal, marine current, thermal (temperature gradient) and salinity. Among these forms, significant opportunities and benefits have been identified in the area of wave energy extraction. Wave energy also offers higher energy densities, enabling devices to extract more power from a smaller volume at consequent lower costs and reduced visual impact. A multidisciplinary...

Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) battery technology provides high performance, safe, sustainable, and cost-effective energy storage for long-duration stationary applications. Technology is based on a simple idea: In order to meet the challenges of the world’s growing energy needs and increase the use of renewable power, AHI needed large-scale energy storage systems that are high performance, safe, sustainable and cost-effective. Aquion developed Saltwater batteries solution called Aqueous...

Royal Philips , has partnered with Green Sense Farms (GSF), a Chicago-area commercial grower, to develop one of the largest indoor commercial farms using LED grow lights tailored to their specific crops. This innovative farming model allows them to harvest 20-25 times a year by using ‘light recipes’ optimized for their produce, using 85 percent less energy. The result will be an increase in crop yields and reduced operating costs, while providing consumers with locally grown, fresh vegetables th...

The US Naval Research Laboratory’s Materials Science and Technology Division have already demonstrated that a new, state-of-the-art conversion method can turn ordinary seawater into a liquid hydrocarbon fuel potent enough to power a small model aircraft. Soon, though, they say the same process will provide the Navy with a way of refueling any of its hundreds of ships at sea without relying on the comparably meager fleet of military oil tankers currently tasked with delivering  million gallons of...

New energy harvesting tiles were developed by London-based Pavegen Systems. The power thus generated can be used to run low-voltage equipment such as streetlights and vending machines. Pavegen uses what it calls a hybrid black box technology to convert the energy of a footstep into electricity, which is either stored in a battery or fed directly to devices. A typical tile is made of recycled polymer, with the top surface made from recycled truck tires. A foot stomp that depresses a single til...

New location awareness technology that triggers applications on smartphone when you are close to it. When it comes to mobile marketing, location plays a key role in influencing consumer behavior because it provides context that helps marketers deliver more relevant messages. A mobile message or offer is much more likely to be acted on when a consumer is physically near a store, because visiting that store requires relatively low effort. However, traditional GPS location-based mobile marke...

Newlight has invented and commercialized a carbon capture technology that combines air with methane-based greenhouse gas emissions to produce a plastic material called AirCarbon™: a carbon-negative material that can match the performance of oil-based plastics and out-compete on price. Every day, plants and microorganisms use greenhouse gases to make useful materials, from carbon dioxide-capturing redwood trees and coral reefs to deep sea methane-capturing hydrothermal vent ecosystems. Insp...

At the Center for Brain Research at the MedUni Vienna an important factor for stress has been identified in collaboration with the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden). This is the protein secretagogin that plays an important role in the release of the stress hormone CRH and which only then enables stress processes in the brain to be transmitted to the pituitary gland and then on-wards to the organs. If, however, the presence of secretagogin, a calcium-binding protein, is suppressed, t...

Scientists could save thousands of dollars by using Inverted high-magnification microscope developed by university’s College of Health and Life Sciences. Inverted high-magnification microscope are very costly which add up to the cost of diagnosing, Adam Lynch, from the university’s College of Health and Life Sciences, created his own inverted microscope by adapting a cheap instrument he bought online to save himself time and money. The tool is used to measure cell motility – how fast cells...

Scientists at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium have succeeded in converting the cellulose in sawdust into hydrocarbon chains, an important additive in petrol (gasoline) and plastics, which could potentially provide a solution to the global energy crisis.’ Cellulose, an organic compound obtained from wood pulp, straw, grass and cotton, contains strong carbon chains. The researchers were able to remove the oxygen bonded to these carbon chains to create a product that only r...

Full-size humanoid service robot now available for sale or rent by PAL robotics. REEM is a full-size humanoid service robot that can be a receptionist, entertain and compliment your guests, provide dynamic information and even make presentations and speeches in many languages. Buy or rent a unit from anywhere in the world and send it wherever you want. REEM has been in malls, airports, museums and fairs in Europe, America and Asia. REEM understands English and Russian, and can speak 9 langua...

Forget colonies in space, one construction company says in the future humans could live in huge underwater complexes that corkscrew deep into the ocean. Five thousand people would live and work in a modern-day Atlantis, a sphere 500 meters in diameter housing hotels, residential spaces and commercial complexes, in the blueprint by Shimizu Inc. The vast globe would float on the surface but could submerge in bad weather, moving down a gigantic spiral structure that reaches depths of up to 4,...

A virus can spread around a whole building within two hours of coming into contact with just one surface, a new study has found, presented at the 54th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Washington. A team at the University of Arizona, Tucson found that when a virus, for example the Norovirus, contaminates a single doorknob or elevator button it spreads rapidly through entire office buildings, hotels or hospitals. The team, led by microbiologist Char...

The most common reason a person may suffer from heart failure is when the muscle becomes damaged, including after a heart attack, through drug or alcohol abuse, and high blood pressure. Shortness of breath, both during activity or rest; swelling of the feet, ankles, stomach and lower back; and fatigue are all symptoms of heart failure. Currently, there is no way to reverse heart disease, and a combination of medication and lifestyle changes help patients manage their symptoms and keep thei...

People who drink half a bottle of wine or more than three pints every night are being offered a life-saving pill to reduce the amount of alcohol they consume. Lundbeck a Danish company got a positive note from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence  for their alcoholism medicine Selincro. Alcohol dependence is a medical and behavioral disease, with a high risk of a chronic, relapsing and progressive course.1 Extensive research over the past 20 years has contributed to understand...

New virus has been discovered, but rather than giving you a sore throat, it affects brain. According to scientists in the US, the algae virus affects the human brain, and can impair our cognitive functions. Scientists are basically saying there’s something we can catch that will make us stupid. Researchers from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska have identified traces of an algal virus, known as ATCV-1, in throat swabs drawn from healthy volunteers which appeared ...

Scientists have discovered a gene that protects people from the most common cause of stroke in young and middle-aged people. The gene, which was isolated by studying the DNA of nearly 16,000 patients across the USA and Europe, also reduces the risk of migraines and could lower heart attack risk. Researchers from Royal Holloway, together with an international team from across the United States and Europe, have found that people with a specific variant of a gene, known as PHA...

Guiding Light is a navigation assistance system that uses directions projected in the space itself to help people become better engaged in their environment and task domain. In particular, I focused on indoor navigation, a problem domain which is becoming increasingly important as the size and complexity of high-rise modern building complexes like hospitals, airports and shopping malls increases.  The indoor environment is a particularly attractive research domain because there are better opport...

MIT labs has developed  device to map cataract with Snap-on  Eyepiece for Mobile Phones. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness worldwide.  Existing diagnostic methods require Slit-lamps. We propose (CATRA) a new solution to detect and quantify cataracts with a compact eyepiece attached to a cell phone. With no moving parts and built from off-the-shelf components, our solution is well suited for the developing world. A cataract-affected eye scatters and refracts light before it reach...

Introducing to the world Beta-Bioled the first ever hand-held blood analyzer, which can truly revolutionize health care. Beta-Bioled will be the first doctor you can always have with you in your pocket. And we are not talking about a device that monitors your vital signs (heart rate, temperature, blood-pressure, etc.). Those devices are well known, and basically they are simply gadgets. What we are talking about here is a device that can perform a comprehensive blood analysis such as you do ...

It's like a chair that isn't there, but magically appears whenever you need it. It's called the Chairless Chair and you wear it on your legs like an exoskeleton: when it's not activated, you can walk normally or even run. And then, at the touch of a button, it locks into place and you can sit down on it. Like a chair that is now there. noonee® offers wearable mechatronic technology based on research from the Bio-Inspired Robotics laboratory at ETH Zurich. noonee’s pending patent, Chairless Ch...

Point is a smart house sitter, build by 'Form Devices' company. It listens to the sounds of your home, senses what's in the air and lets you know if anything is wrong. It’s for people who want peace of mind—without cameras at home. Point combines sound and sensor data to recognize events you care about, like windows breaking, alarms sounding, or the presence of smoke. Small, round and plastic, Point looks like a traditional smoke alarm crossed with a speaker. Sounds are matched with data ...