Syroco kite-surfing “Moonshot I” – can reach 80-knot mark, or just over 92 mph

Posted on April 10, 2022April 10, 2022 by IE Article Contributor

Moonshot #1 is a sailing craft that flies its pod a few feet above the surface, using foils to keep it grounded to the water, with kites providing the propulsion. The pilots in the pod will have to control the kite and foil to avoid crashes at dangerous speeds. But the main hurdle the designers have faced is mastering the cavitation - the air bubbles that build up as the foils move faster - at speeds that no sailing vessel has ever reached. America's Cup racing vessels have used foi...

Moen’s The Flo – Smart Home Water Monitoring And Leak Detection System

Posted on October 31, 2021October 31, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

The Flo by Moen monitors your water flow and can automatically shut off your water if it detects a major leak. In addition, the Flo checks your water pressure and temperature, and its app shows you how much water you're using per day. It also tells you what's using water, and it runs daily tests to determine if there's a water leak. Flo by Moen™ is a revolutionary smart home water security system that features a suite of products to protect your home from water damage and leaks, 24/7. Th...

Edge Innovations – real size robotic dolphin. Real-time Animatronics Reimagining the marine park industry.

Posted on July 11, 2021July 11, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

Edge Innovations specializes in the design, development, and production of complex, highly integrated technology-based systems. Working with many of the world’s top visionaries, including James Cameron, Steve Wynn, and Frank Gehry, the Edge team has delivered some of the world’s most innovative technical and artistic creations. Blending live puppeteering, programmed behavior, and artificial intelligence to create a unique guest experience. The goal of this initiative is to reimagine t...

‘StixFresh’ – Sticker that can increase the shelf life of fruits by 14 days.

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

StixFresh has come up with a way to extend the freshness of fruit naturally with a sticker. The company claims the stickers can extend the shelf life of fruits for up to two weeks longer. An all-natural compound contained on the sticker creates a protective layer around the fruit. STIXFRESH IS SIMPLE Easily peel and place StixFresh stickers on apples, pears, avocados, dragon fruits, kiwis, mangos, oranges and other citrus fruits to help keep them firm, sweet and juicy. StixFres...

‘ECF Farm Systems’ – Urban farming technology & turnkey solution.

Posted on January 16, 2021January 16, 2021 by IE Article Contributor

ECF is the designer of farms that produce healthy vegetables and fish. ECF works throughout the business development lifecycle of the project – from the idea to the turnkey system. ECF produces high-quality food cost-effectively while conserving resources. It is a B2B play, i.e. that of urban-farming for B2B providing large-scale, competitively-priced, locally-grown food with lower environmental footprint to professional customers. https://youtu.be/7Oeejpk9JOY The ECF Farm Berlin ...

‘Apeel’ – edible coating to increase the shelf life of fruits & vegetables.

Posted on December 26, 2020December 26, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

Apeel uses materials that exist in the peels, seeds, and pulp of all fruits and vegetables to create a protective extra peel that seals moisture in and keeps oxygen out. That means our produce stays fresh, nutritious, and delicious twice as long. It also means less produce goes to waste throughout the supply chain—from grower to retailer to consumers at home. According to Apeel - Every piece of produce is a living, breathing thing, [and] it needs its own optimized little microclimate in ...

Flume – Smart Home Water Monitoring System

Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020 by IE Article Contributor

FLUME Smart Water Monitor is a turn-key, easy-to-install entire property solution to monitor your water and catch leaks. FLUME consists of a water sensor, which simply straps to your existing water meter without the need for plumbing, a Wi-Fi bridge and easy-to-use app. With FLUME, you'll have real-time access to your water use including leak detection both inside and outside of your home. Smart Home Water Monitoring and Leak Detection Flume is Changing the Way We Consume Water Man...

Rover Land & Sea is a app-controlled amphibious kids toy vehicle (RC car) with camera and speaker

Posted on March 1, 2017March 1, 2017 by adminedit

The Rover Land & Sea is a powerful and flexible app-enabled RC car that works with iOS and Android devices. As shown in the images, the RC car sports a compact and streamlined appearance design, and it features uniquely designed wheels that not only allow it to run on a variety of terrains, but also propel the vehicle through the water with fins on the wheels. Moreover, the rubber ridges in the center of each wheel provide traction and protect the fins on land. Indoors or outdoo...

‘Airo’ is a self water harvesting bottle from air and a solar charger for your smart phone

Posted on February 28, 2017February 28, 2017 by adminedit

Austrian startup Fontus has developed a novel water bottle that harvest water from air. It's a vaporware that literally pull water vapor out of the air to fill itself. Harvesting water from the air via processes like condensation has been practiced in various ways for eons, of course. In recent years, we've seen a James Dyson award go to an Australian irrigation system that works on the same principle, as well as a lightweight bamboo tower that grabs its own water. But the ability to do so ba...

Innovative Micro-Turbine – Utilizing the power of flowing water, Blue Freedom produces portable energy to charge all your electric devices.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by adminedit

1.6 billion people worldwide have no access to electricity. Blue Freedom - the smallest and lightest hydropower plant in the world - enables people without access to a power grid the freedom to produce energy themselves. Complete with ultramarine rotor blades, the microturbine can be used by anyone with access to flowing water to produce and store electrical energy in an eco-friendly way that preserves biodiversity. Blue Freedom is world's smallest hydropower plant. It can be used by anyone wit...

Max Planck Institute and the University of Stuttgart have found a way of generating acoustic hologram . Sound can now be structured in three dimensions.

Posted on October 1, 2016October 1, 2016 by adminedit

Sound can now be structured in three dimensions. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the University of Stuttgart have found a way of generating acoustic holograms, which could improve ultrasound diagnostics and material testing. The holograms can also be used to move and manipulate particles. Shaped with ultrasound: Max Planck researchers from Stuttgart transmit ultrasonic waves through a bath of water © Kai Melde / MPI for Intelligent Systems Pee...

Altered: The Innovative Faucet Solution that Uses 98% Less Water

Posted on September 11, 2016 by IE Article Contributor

The Altered Company has created a nozzle that uses 2% of your normal water usage. It’s flexible, designed to fit over any tap, customizable, with two modes depending on the needed amount of water, and an environmentally conscious solution to the everyday problem of water waste. Water stress is a global issue that affects one billion people at present, and will impact an estimated 3 billion people in 2020. Furthermore, when one uses a regular tap, much of the water simply bounces off the surfa...

Samsung SmartThings Water Leak Sensor

Posted on August 25, 2016August 25, 2016 by adminedit

Prevent a little water from becoming a disaster with the Samsung SmartThings Water Leak Sensor. By using the water leak sensor with the free Samsung SmartThings app for your mobile device, you can receive immediate alerts if there is unwanted moisture or water in your home, helping you prevent leaks from turning into floods. Use the Samsung SmartThings Water Leak Sensor with other products in the Samsung SmartThings family to customize your smart home for more intelligent living. Monitors Mo...

Hozelock Cloud Controller Garden Sprinkler

Posted on July 4, 2016 by adminedit

Hozelock Cloud Control Kit allows control of garden watering from anywhere in the world via a smart phone application (compatible with Apple iOS 8 and upwards or Android 4.4.2 and upwards). An easy-to-use application allows you to create your own watering schedules to set start time, frequency and duration. It also allows you to remotely set, pause and adjust watering schedules. The Cloud Control Kit is easy to set up. It includes a hub that can be directly connected to an internet router to pro...

Roost Smart Water and Freeze Detector

Posted on July 2, 2016 by adminedit

Roost Smart Water and Freeze Detector is a slim disc-shaped device that slips under sinks, near water heaters, in the cellar, under the fish tank and practically anywhere in the house there’s plumbing to alert you if there’s trouble brewing. On a basic level, the detector will help you keep an eye on the state of your home’s plumbing. At its very best? This discreet little detector could save you having to fork out on costly repairs. Whether it’s a pipe about to freeze, a drip from your to...

iSwimband is the first portable and personal drowning detection system for parents and caregivers.

Posted on June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 by adminedit

Swimband is a personal water safety system that is designed to prevent accidental drowning for toddlers. iSwimband is a Bluetooth device that connects to a smart phone or tablet to alert parents if a swimmer has been underwater for a long period, or a non-swimmer has entered the water. Swimband is the world's first wearable wireless sensor designed to notify you immediately with audible/visual alerts on your smartphone, tablet and linked speakers if a swimmer has been submerged dan...

Commercial products that produce water from Air

Posted on May 27, 2016 by adminedit

Atmospheric water solutions manufacture machines that produce purified water from air. These Innovative machines extract humidity from the air which is filtered, condensed, and then processed through an additional multi-step filtration system; producing “purified great tasting water™”, with no chlorine, fluoride, or heavy metals present. Their AquaBoy® Pro II machine makes hot and cold water from air , filters it and stores up to 2 to 5 gallons every day. It’s easy to operate, environm...

Innovative Bathroom Accessories

Posted on May 16, 2016 by adminedit

Homestar Spa Bath Planetarium: The Homestar Spa is a waterproof planetarium that floats in water and projects out bright light into the room. Clingies and Dockingdots: Clingies towels features coated powerful magnet in the little pocket between the fold that allows you to attach them on any metal surface and for non metal surface you just stick the docking dots where these anywhere towels attaches. Amphiro Smart Shower: Amphiro is the world's first smart meter for the shower that provi...

Singapore’s ‘toilet to tap’ concept

Posted on May 1, 2016 by adminedit

Singapore is one of Asia’s most powerful economies, but it lacks a reliable water supply. Wastewater-reuse plants could change that by soon recycling enough sewage to meet 50 percent of the nation’s water needs. The concept of recycling wastewater certainly isn’t new, with long-running initiatives already well underway in Israel, Spain, Scandinavian countries and the US. But with NEWater, Singapore has quickly gained an international reputation for efficient recycling of wastewater. The initi...

Smart Nutrition Bottle revolutionizing personal wellness

Posted on April 30, 2016 by adminedit

LifeFuels is a health technology company devoted to bringing responsive intelligence to nutrition and hydration management. We need to fuel our bodies properly in order to live life well. But nutrition is complicated, and nutritional regimens are difficult to adhere to. The LifeFuels Smart Nutrition Bottle simplifies nutrition and hydration management by dispensing the products that you need to help you live a happier, healthier life while you're on the go. FuelPods are inserted in the top...

Smart Products

Posted on April 20, 2016 by adminedit

Neurio embeds a Wi-Fi-enabled sensor inside your home's electrical panel and identifies individual devices and appliances by their "power signatures." It monitors power use, breaks down activity by device, uses machine learning to interpret that activity, and can inform you when something important happens, such as that you left the oven turned on. Ivee Sleek may look like just another alarm clock, but it also functions as a voice-activated interface that lets you talk to the Nest smart home ...

Lawn watering robot

Posted on April 15, 2016 by adminedit

Get your lawns ready for summer with Growver! The lawn watering robot keeps your water bills low by navigating your garden precisely and not wasting any water. Growver relies on water sensors to detect areas of your yard that are dry. It has fill, outline, and remote modes and can save you up to 50% on your water bill. Get Growver running in just minutes. Install the perimeter wire, connect a hose, and press run. Sensors detect moisture and ensure Growver won't over-water,...

All-electric personal submarine

Posted on February 20, 2016 by adminedit

The all-electric Deepflight Dragon is the world's most compact personal submarine, it can take passengers to depths of up to 400 feet and can also fit neatly onboard many yachts. Two-person Deepflight Dragon is only 16.4 feet long and 6.2 feet wide and has been designed for easy launching and piloting. Onboard Dive Manager software monitors the critical functions of the sub and sets the depth limit for the dive, leaving even an inexperienced pilot free to enjoy the underwater scenery. Deep...

Immersion suit replacing life jackets for survival at sea

Posted on February 7, 2016 by adminedit

An immersion suit, or survival suit (or more specifically an immersion survival suit) is a special type of waterproof dry suit that protects the wearer from hypothermia from immersion in cold water, after abandoning a sinking or capsized vessel, especially in the open ocean. The survival suits are designed to help protect those on board from hypothermia in the water with 5-mm, stretchable, flame-retardant neoprene. Added inflatable head supports, face shields and five-fingered, integrated glo...

AquaFresco – Reinventing laundry

Posted on December 19, 2015 by adminedit

AquaFresco provides the state-of-the-art filtration technology which regenerates 95% of laundry wastewater. Three MIT grad students have invented a washing-machine filter that cleans wastewater and reuses it over and over again. “Washing machines are one of the major sources of detergent pollution in rivers,” Huang says. “Current laundry technology is not sustainable. A regular washer discards the water right into the drain after one usage, but less than 1 percent is the actual waste component.”...

New, inexpensive way to clean water from oil sands production

Posted on December 4, 2015 by adminedit

Researchers have developed a process to remove contaminants from oil sands wastewater using only sunlight and nanoparticles that is more effective and inexpensive than conventional treatment methods. Frank Gu, a professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology Engineering, is the senior researcher on the team that was the first to find that photocatalysis , a chemical reaction that involves the absorption of light by nanoparticles ...

Desalination

Posted on November 28, 2015 by adminedit

MIT has developed a new and more efficient way to desalinate water. The process, called shock electrodialysis, filters water through a material made of small glass particles, according to an MIT News report. When an electric current is introduced to the system, the water divides into areas of high or low salt concentration. Once the current reaches a certain point, a shockwave is produced that divides the streams and allows the salty and fresh waters to be separated by a physical barrier. The pr...

Egyptian method filters seawater in minutes

Posted on November 10, 2015 by adminedit

Researchers from the University of Alexandria have developed a cheaper, simpler and potentially cleaner way to turn seawater into drinking water than conventional methods. This could have a huge impact on rural areas of the Middle East and North Africa, where access to clean water is a pressing issue if social stability and economic development is to improve. Right now, desalinating seawater is the only viable way to provide water to growing populations, and large desalination plants are now a f...

Underwater kite-turbine scheme

Posted on October 15, 2015 by adminedit

A £25m tidal energy project which works through moving "kites" underwater is being launched on Anglesey. Swedish firm Minesto wants to harness power under the sea off the coast of Holyhead. It will set up its UK offices there and hopes to become a manufacturing centre, creating more jobs there. The so-called Deep Green technology works on the principle that underwater "kites" can reach speeds 10 times faster than the current. This works in the same way a kite flies faster than the wind, and t...

Atmospheric Water Generators that Make Water from Air

Posted on September 8, 2015 by adminedit

The WaterMill WM-200 is unlike any other water collection device. It is an intelligent system that can regulate itself to produce pure water for a healthy family and environment. Johathan Ritchey has invented this novel device, which is essentially an atmospheric water collection device that condenses water vapor and purifies it. Originally designed for areas that do not have clean drinking water, the Watermill is for households that need an eco-friendly, cost effective alternative to bot...