Ford Is Testing Its Self-Driving Cars In The Dark

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AUTONOMOUS RESEARCH VEHICLES USE LIDAR SENSOR TECHNOLOGY TO SEE IN THE DARK Ford tests Fusion Hybrid autonomous research vehicles at night, in complete darkness, as part of LiDAR sensor development – demonstrating the capability to perform beyond the limits of human drivers. Recent test at Ford Arizona Proving Ground shows how the company’s use of LiDAR technology and 3D maps work in conjunction to allow vehicles to drive without headlights on. Testing supports Ford Smart Mobility, the ...
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Magnet Therapy Mattress Pads and pillow pads

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Magnet Therapy Mattress Pads and pillow pads contain powerful ceramic ferrite magnets (manufacturer's gauss rating of 3650 - 3950 per magnet). The quilted, comfortable mattress pad fits on top of your mattress and under your fitted sheet to project a north-pole field along your entire body. Our strategically placed magnets coupled with magnet size allows for optimum performance of magnetic lines of flux to penetrate up into the body. Magnetic Therapy is suggested to help improve circulation, red...
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Wireless charger for your phone

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With over a decades’ worth of perseverance, physicist Hatem Zeine might have found a way to recharge a mobile device completely wirelessly – without coming into any physical contact with a charging base. The Cota by Ossia is a breakthrough technology that can transmit wireless power for industrial usage, as well as consumer applications. After debuting the Cota wireless charging prototype and revealing his company Ossia for the first time at Disrupt, Zeine is confident that his wireless power...
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Hyundai car augmented reality app

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To make life easier for car owners, Hyundai has built an augmented reality app called the Virtual Guide. It allows owners to use their phones to get more familiar with their cars and learn how to perform basic maintenance. All you need to do is hold up your phone and the digital guide will tell you what to do. You can use the app to get an augmented reality view of the engine compartment or interior of the car, with floating digital dots illustrating different points of interest like the w...
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Reversal of the Sun’s Magnetic Field

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According to measurements from NASA-supported observatories, the sun's vast magnetic field flips every 11 years. The sun's magnetic field changes polarity approximately every 11 years. It happens at the peak of each solar cycle as the sun's inner magnetic dynamo re-organizes itself. The coming reversal will mark the midpoint of Solar Cycle 24. Half of "solar max" will be behind us, with half yet to come. Hoeksema is the director of Stanford's Wilcox Solar Observatory, one of the few observ...
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Cinder sensing cooker – a connected appliance

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Cinder Sensing Cooking, a new software and sensor-powered appliance that promises perfectly cooked meal. Cinder Sensing Cooker uses precise temperature controls and a companion app to cook just about anything to its ideal temperature. The device is able to heat food evenly through its twin electric heating plates, and can hit temperatures within two degrees of optimum. Due to its precise temperature control, the cooker is not only able to bring food to the perfect temperature, but hold it ...
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ASCII – Computer alphabets

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ASCII abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character-encoding scheme (the IANA prefers the name US-ASCII). ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text. Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters. ASCII was the most common character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8, which is fully backward compa...
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Geomagnetic storm and their impact

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A geomagnetic storm is a major disturbance of Earth's magnetosphere that occurs when there is a very efficient exchange of energy from the solar wind into the space environment surrounding Earth. These storms result from variations in the solar wind that produces major changes in the currents, plasmas, and fields in Earth’s magnetosphere. The solar wind conditions that are effective for creating geomagnetic storms are sustained (for several to many hours) periods of high-speed solar wind, and mo...
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Hubble Telescope

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There is no "real time" camera or Web cam on board the telescope for live relay links. The images that the Hubble takes are digital pictures and spectra released to the public after one year (to allow the investigators time to do their research). The data, which are transmitted from the telescope in digital form, needs to be converted from this digitized information by computers into black-and-white photos. These are then enhanced to discern details in the images. All the information we ...
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Japan to soon allow people to pay using just fingerprint

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This summer, the Japanese government is set to begin testing a system that would allow foreign tourists to verify their identities and purchase goods and services using nothing more than a fingerprint. Ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, Japan sought to prevent crime and relieve traveller stress by omitting the need to carry cash or credit cards. The experiment would allow the government to fully evaluate the system before making any sweeping changes before the game. The ...
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NASA’s research on rivers over the Greenland Ice sheet

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On Greenland's ice sheet, a vast icy landscape crisscrossed by turquoise rivers and dotted with meltwater lakes, a small cluster of orange camping tents popped up in late July. The camp, home for a week to a team of researchers, sat by a large, fast-flowing river. Just half a mile (a kilometer) downstream, the river dropped into a seemingly bottomless moulin, or sinkhole in the ice. The low rumble of the waters, the shouted instructions from scientists taking measurements, and the chop of the bl...
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Google owned Schaft unveils new bipedal robot

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SCHAFT’s new bipedal robot According to Hornyak, SCHAFT’s new robot (which hasn’t been named yet) “is designed to be a low-cost, low-power, compact device to ‘help society.’ ” It can lift 60 kg, travel over uneven terrain, and even tackle stairs, which are notoriously difficult for robots.   The DARPA Robotics Challenge held its inaugural competition last December, and by most accounts (including ours), it was a success. The DRC Trials drew huge public interest, and the teams and t...
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Electric Objects – digital art

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Electric Objects is a digital art platform that puts digital art on a wall in every home. EO1's is a custom matte high-def screen designed for art. Neither bright nor muted, it's more of a luminous oil painting than a glowing monitor. Company's vision is to bring top art at affordable price to every home using digital frame. Electric Objects brings the beauty of the Internet into your home. There's more art on the Internet than in every gallery and museum on Earth. But many of these bea...
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NASA’s reliable, long-lived power system

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Power provides electricity to the spacecraft and its subsystems. Below are examples of the way in which the Mars Science Laboratory mission benefits from past technological development and contributes new capabilities. Inherited Technologies Mars Science Laboratory uses a radioisotope power system to generate electricity needed to operate the rover and its instruments. Radioisotope electrical power and heating systems enable science missions that require greater longevity, more diverse landi...
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‘Drop’ – iPad baking assistant

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Drop is a Bluetooth-enabled kitchen scale that intuitively guides you step-by-step through finding, making and sharing delicious dishes with the help of a connected iPad app. You'll be at the top of your baking game thanks to interactive recipes, simple ingredient substitutions and smart ingredient scaling. The Drop Kitchen app offers you an amazing collection of unique interactive recipes, each carefully selected not only for its off-the-chart yum factor, but also consistent success with the h...
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NASA Satellite Data to the Aid of Allergy Sufferers

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When you stroll through your front door in the morning, does the yellow haze coating the porch send you leaping back into the house? Can the mere word "pollen" make you start to sniffle, sneeze and reach for the tissue to blow your nose? If you answered "yes" to these questions, you're probably one of millions of people in the United States suffering from hay fever. Pollen can do more, however, than just make you sneeze. If you have asthma, cardiovascular disease, chronic obstructive pulmonar...
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Innovative Products

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Tanita BC-545 scale not only checks your weight but also measures your body composition. It has a built in calendar that can keep track of days and graph changes in your readings for up to 36 months.       Coin Bank: Creation of Revol-Design, coins are dropped into the top which gets collected in between the two glass pieces and they stay there until you unlock and empty it. Here is the latest one from Revol-Design, the Vertical Coin Bank.   &nbs...
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NASA : Home Insulation With the Stroke of a Brush

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Painting the interior or the exterior of a house can be quite an arduous task, but few realize that adding a fresh splash of color to the walls and siding of their homes can lead to reduced energy consumption and substantial savings on utility bills. Hy-Tech Thermal Solutions, LLC, of Melbourne, Florida, is producing a very complex blend of ceramic vacuum-filled refractory products designed to minimize the path of hot air transfer through ceilings, walls, and roofs. The insulating ceramic techno...
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SoundCloud – audio platform that lets you listen and share sounds(Music) you create

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SoundCloud is a global online audio distribution platform based in Berlin, Germany, that enables its users to upload, record, promote, and share their originally-created sounds. According to the company’s data, in December 2014, the service attracts more than 175 million unique monthly listeners, while content creators upload about 12 hours worth of audio every minute. Founders Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss are the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief technical officer (CTO), respectivel...
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NASA – 3D Printing in space

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The 3D Printing In Zero-G Technology Demonstration serves as a proof-of-concept test of the properties of melt deposition modeling additive manufacturing in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS). The lessons learned from this technology demonstration can be applied in the next generation of melt deposition modeling in the permanent NanoRacks Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF), as well as for any future additive manufacturing technology. This includes any future...
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Innovative New Devices

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The iPhone Pocket Projector docks onto your smartphone and projects up to a 50" image with 640x360 native display resolution. This Pocket Digital Luggage Scale can be comfortably placed in your pocket, it comes with large display that registers up to 99.8 lbs. Pocket-size mobile robotic printer connects directly to smartphones and to notebooks, prints documents at about 1.2 page per minute, has enough black ink for 1,000 printed pages. This wireless pocket printer from LG doesn't us...
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Innovative new gadgets for your kitchen

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Crockpot Smart Slow Cooker has WeMo-enabled technology that allows you to remotely adjust cooking functions from your smart device. The Topbrewer coffee faucet by Scanomat is one of the best coffee machines, it can also be controlled using an iPhone. This smart cookware can monitor weight of ingredients, temperature and humidity and display the info using a smartphone app in real time. Its designed to reduce guesswork from cooking and the app comes with 1000s of recipes. https://you...
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Apps to help your college and financial aid search

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For high schoolers   College Abacus helps high schoolers and their families search and compare side-by-side the estimated cost and financial-aid awards of multiple colleges. The estimates are gleaned directly from schools' Net Price Calculators. It gives users one place to enter financial and academic information so they don't have to re-enter them at every school website. Lynn O'Shaughnessy of The College Solution reviewed and recommend the app. Tractus Insight, in Beta form, wil...
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‘Lively’ provides a better way for older adults to live

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The 'Lively medical alert' provides 24/7 emergency monitoring, missed medication reminders and more. 'Lively' provides a better way for older adults to share how they’re doing with a connected device that uses passive activity sensors you apply to moveable objects around the home. The system consists of a sensor array that communicates with a wirelessly connected base station. When various items are moved around the house – keys, a medicine cabinet, the refrigerator door – the sensors repo...
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Free personal accounting by ‘Mint’

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Mint can do almost anything Quicken can do, but it's free and you don't need to install any software. Personal accounting software,  that allows you to manage your money, pay your bills and track your credit score with Mint comes from the makers of TurboTax® and Quicken®, Mint is a SaaS based online personal finance service similar to Quicken. With Mint you have no local software to install, and it’s a service you can access with any browser or most mobile devices. Mint’s primary fea...
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‘Krazy Coupon Ladies’ website share coupons and ideas to save money

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Two women with expensive taste, operating on a tight budget have build a website to share coupons and ideas to save money. Couponing just got a whole lot easier! Find your favorite stores including Target, CVS, Walgreens, Walmart, Rite Aid, Costco, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, Whole Foods and Publix using our handy geolocation. Quickly browse over 60 new deals per day and search thousands of coupons from sources like Coupons.com, Ibotta, and Checkout 51 in seconds! Create a shopping list,...
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LEO: Intelligent wearable fitness

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LEO is a band for one’s thigh (designed for comfort and durability) that measures a multitude of reactions in one’s body through electromyography (EMG).  According to the company, EMG measures muscle response or electrical activity in response to a nerve’s stimulation of the muscle.  These measurable responses are what make LEO unique. INTELLIGENT TRACKING LEO monitors your bio-signals to give you a deeper level of insight than any other fitness wearable. INTELLIGENT FEEDBACK LEO translate...
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