The newest edition to the Bedol Water Alarm Clock. Squirt resembles a small splash of water. Perfect size for a college students desk. Just pop open the cap and fill Squirt with ordinary tap water! Features a daily or hourly alarm and easy to set 12 hour or 24 hour clock. Squirt Water Clock keeps perfect time without requiring batteries or electricity. The amazing Bedol Water Clock technology converts ions in the water into clean energy power. Built-in memory chip remembers time so you don’t ...

Most of the clocks we see on walls in offices and homes are either roundish or rectangle digital units. Rarely do you see a clock that is as interesting as the verTick at Yanko Design. The clock has sticks with numbers rather than a digital readout or hands. In the middle of the clock is an aluminum section with windows. The sticks move up and down on motors to put the right number in the windows to shows the time. The clock is 438mm high at its longest point.   At its smallest poi...

An iPad solar cover with up to an average 10 Days Use!!! The Kudo uses new photovoltaic ink technology, essentially a liquid solar panel, to convert indoor and outdoor light into usable energy.  It converts the light around it to continually charge the iPad with a constant trickle from its built in iPad solar charger. Everyone will see different results depending on usage and lighting conditions but the company found that the average user will go up to about 10 days before having to charge the...

A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable. The findings from Y.H. Percival Zhang, an associate professor of biological systems engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering, were published today in the journal Nature Communications. While other sugar batteries ha...

5G is the next generation of mobile communication technology, it will need to offer far greater capacity and be faster, more energy-efficient and more cost-effective than anything that has gone before. The proliferation of smartphones is driving ever-increasing demand for mobile data – in fact some predict it will grow by a hundred times over the next decade – with much demand for video and other high-speed services. At the same time, we are just beginning to see the emergence of the In...

The DRC is a competition of robot systems and software teams vying to develop robots capable of assisting humans in responding to natural and man-made disasters. It was designed to be extremely difficult. Participating teams, representing some of the most advanced robotics research and development organizations in the world, are collaborating and innovating on a very short timeline to develop the hardware, software, sensors, and human-machine control interfaces that will enable their robots to c...

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency released new footage of its AlphaDog, a technological marvel of emerging technology that could turn the tide of battle, or at least carry a lot of heavy gear for soldiers. Technically designated the Legged Squad Support System (L3), the AlphaDog can traverse rough terrain, plow through underbrush, follow soldiers in the field, act as a charging station for radios, and generally scare the hell out of any enemy soldier it comes across. Its original conc...

The Wave Glider represents an innovative approach to ocean persistent presence; it harnesses ocean wave energy to provide essentially limitless propulsion while solar panels continually replenish the batteries used to power the Wave Glider’s control electronics and payload systems. The Wave Glider vehicle is propelled by the purely mechanical conversion of ocean wave energy into forward thrust, independent of wave direction. Through extensive engineering trials and demonstrations, the Wave Glide...

NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength NASA's X1 robotic exoskeleton project is a latest robotic, space technology, spinoff derived from NASA's Robonaut 2 project, it may someday help astronauts stay healthier in space with the added benefit of assisting paraplegics in walking here on Earth. NASA and The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC) of Pensacola, Fla., with the help of engineers from Oceaneering Space Sy...

Computers are really cool and helpful, but when we're on the computer, we can't connect with each other;  computers can't really interact with humans. "So the challenge and opportunity that lies ahead is how to get the computers out of computing," said Mark Rolston, the chief creative officer at frog.  Essentially, Rolston wants to personalize the experience of interacting with a computer, but also give more flexibility to a "computer user." Rolston came up with an innovative technology to...

For the 2.2 million Americans battling glaucoma, the main course of action for staving off blindness involves weekly visits to eye specialists who monitor – and control – increasing pressure within the eye. Now, a tiny eye implant developed at Stanford could enable patients to take more frequent readings from the comfort of home. Daily or hourly measurements of eye pressure could help doctors tailor more effective treatment plans.Internal optic pressure (IOP) is the main risk factor associated w...

When babies are  born, they don't have enough body fat to keep their body warm. To these newborns, room temperature is extremely cold. This means that babies in developing nations that don't have access to ways to keep their children warm, leading to many harmful consequences. To help stop this  world wide problem, Embrace Global created the Embrace Warmer, a device that regulates the body temperature of recently born babies, keeping them alive in places that are still developing and would no...

A new study from MIT implicates a family of RNA-binding proteins in the regulation of cancer, particularly in a subtype of breast cancer. These proteins, known as Musashi proteins, can force cells into a state associated with increased proliferation. Biologists have previously found that this kind of transformation, which often occurs in cancer cells as well as during embryonic development, is controlled by transcription factors — proteins that turn genes on and off. However, the new MIT rese...

Brain-computer interface technology has the potential to improve the function and quality of life of those unable to use their own arms, a woman with quadriplegia shaped the almost human hand of a robot arm with just her thoughts to pick up big and small boxes, a ball, an oddly shaped rock, and fat and skinny tubes. The findings by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, published online in the Journal of Neural Engineering, describe, for the first time, 10-degree brai...

New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. For decades, most neuroscientists have believed that memories are stored at the synapses — the connections between brain cells, or neurons — which are destroyed by Alzheimer’s disease. The new study provides evidence contradicting the idea that long-term memory is stored at synapses. “Long-term memory is not stored at the synapse,” said David...

In everyday life, the global positioning system (GPS) can be employed to reliably determine the momentary location of one en route to the desired destination. Scientists from the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry of the University of Bonn have now developed a molecular "GPS" with which the whereabouts of metal ions in enzymes can be reliably determined. Such ions play important roles in all corners of metabolism and synthesis for biological products. There would be no life on...

Scientists at Nanyang Technology University (NTU) have developed ultra-fast charging batteries that can be recharged up to 70 per cent in only two minutes. The new generation batteries also have a long lifespan of over 20 years, more than 10 times compared to existing lithium-ion batteries. This breakthrough has a wide-ranging impact on all industries, especially for electric vehicles, where consumers are put off by the long recharge times and its limited battery life. With this new tec...

Google designs new self-driving vehicles that don't have steering wheel and pedals. Ever since Google self-driving car project started, they have been working toward the goal of vehicles that can shoulder the entire burden of driving. Just imagine: You can take a trip downtown at lunchtime without a 20-minute buffer to find parking. Seniors can keep their freedom even if they can’t keep their car keys. And drunk and distracted driving? History. Google is now exploring what fully self-drivi...

You know what will go perfectly with those futuristic rocket-powered, heartrate-monitoring bikes? This smart helmet that Volvo wants to create. It's a two-way system that works by uploading both cyclists' and drivers' locations to Volvo's cloud. While a connected car's in-dash system makes that possible, the helmet needs to be linked to a bike app like Strava to do so. Bicyclists can then be warned that there's a car coming their way or crossing their path by warning lights built into the helmet...

Shape-Shifting Touchscreen Microsoft wants your touchscreen to touch you back. It recently published a patent, filed in 2009, that describes a touch screen in which you can feel texture and shape, making you feel like you’re actually touching an object even when you’re not. Ultraviolet wavelengths beneath the screen’s pixels control the shapes that the polymer coating on top of the screen makes, enabling you to feel images, interfaces, or a virtual keyboard.   For more detai...

Create your personal Private VPN using iTwin connect. Plug in iTwin on a home or office computer to create your own personal VPN gateway server in less than a minute! No configuration of IP addresses, DNS, routers or NATs is necessary. Leaving one half of the iTwin plugged into your gateway server, take the other half with you to use in your laptop or any other remote computer, to gain access to your whole computer network using your domain credentials, from anywhere. You can remotely access...

IBM has developed a way to store data in much more compact fashion The computer you're working on stores one bit of data in about 1 million atoms. With atomic-scale magnetic memory, 12 is the new million IBM developed the ultimate memory chips of the future. Starting at the very beginning of density—single atoms—they created the world’s smallest magnetic memory bit and answered the question of how many atoms it takes to reliably store one bit of magnetic information at a low temperature: 1...

Ultra small mobile projectors Enabling ultra-small and portable display applications Explore how the industry leading TI DLP® technology, is enabling brighter, sharper and more efficient displays for a broad range of small form factor products and applications. Based on the award-winning DLP Cinema® imaging technology used in nearly 9 out of 10 digital movie theaters worldwide, DLP technology enables brighter, more efficient high definition projection displays from small form factor...

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