Three engineers in Chile have invented a smartphone charger that is able to harness energy from plants in order to charge a phone, removing the need for an electrical power supply. E-Kaia is the brainchild of Evelyn Aravena, Camila Rupcich and Carolina Guerrero, three engineering students who came up with the idea for an electricity-free smartphone charger when they were in university at the Duoc UC in Valparaíso and the Andrés Bello National University. Similarly, Dutch company take a...

Koubachi, the Swiss start-up that monitors plant health in real-time and provides alert reminders for plant care and assistance. Koubachi, the plant care expert, launches its next generation of plant sensors, the Plant Sensor Pro, designed for professional gardeners to accurately determine the health and vitality of plants. Also being launched is Koubachi’s second-generation versions of the indoor and outdoor plant sensor device, Plant Sensor 2. New features include soil temperature, artifici...

The Smartshoes are the first connected, interactive, heated, and shock absorbent shoes with automatic tightening that can be controlled via your smartphone. This innovative footwear product is designed for your health and comfort. With 3 different designs, there is always one Smartshoe to match your style.   Karim Oumnia is taking shoes to the next level with Digitsole, an interactive sole that connects to your smartphone to track your distance and calories, as well heat your feet...

Folding Electric Bikes Folding electric bikes are very convenient if you travel a lot, use multiple forms of transportation, or if you want a bike that can be stored in a small place. It is amazing how small some of these folding e-bikes can be when they are completely folded up! Folders are great when combined with other forms of transportation like the bus, subway, train, ferry/boat, taxi, car, etc. They are also handy if you have limited storage areas at home or work. ...

Smart Umbrella Reminds You To Take It Along When There's A Chance Of Rain Kisha, the world’s first smart umbrella. It connects with your smartphone via Bluetooth and reminds you to take it along with you when there’s a forecast of rain. Plus, it’s equipped with GPS so you will never lose it. The Kisha smart umbrella is the first high-quality weather gear of its kind, and built with the intention to last a lifetime. It works by syncing with an app on your smartphone to make sure you nev...

Nubrella HANDS-FREE, WIND-RESISTANT UMBRELLA Nubrella is a hands-free, non-invertible umbrella/weather protector, conveniently worn backpack-style. Aerodynamic canopy can withstand up to 40mph winds and cannot invert. Canopy blocks wind-chill keeping you significantly warmer in inclement conditions. Comfortably rests on your shoulders and secures with a waist strap for complete hands-free capability. Easily stores down users back – no need to carry anything. https://youtu.be/_...

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...

Replacement of skin has been one of the most challenging aims for surgeons ever since the introduction of skin grafts in 1871. It took more than one century until the breakthrough of Rheinwald and Green in 1975 that opened new possibilities of skin replacement. The combination of cell culture and polymer chemistry finally led to the field of tissue engineering. Many researchers all over the world have been fascinated by the chance of creating a skin-like substitute ex vivo without any further ha...

Space/orbital debris/junk/waste is the collection of defunct man-made objects in space – old satellites, spent rocket stages, and fragments from disintegration, erosion, and collisions – including those caused by debris itself. More than 500,000 pieces of debris, or “space junk,” are tracked as they orbit the Earth. They all travel at speeds up to 17,500 mph, fast enough for a relatively small piece of orbital debris to damage a satellite or a spacecraft. The rising population of space deb...

NASA is developing the capabilities needed to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and Mars in the 2030s – goals outlined in the bipartisan NASA Authorization Act of 2010 and in the U.S. National Space Policy, also issued in 2010. Mars is a rich destination for scientific discovery and robotic and human exploration as we expand our presence into the solar system. Its formation and evolution are comparable to Earth, helping us learn more about our own planet’s history and future. Mars had condit...

Bombardier Inc. is a Canadian multinational aerospace and transportation company, founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier in the Eastern Townships, Quebec. Aircraft concept, dubbed the Skreemr, is the brainchild of Charles Bombardier, an engineer and inventor. Bombardier's latest design describes a passenger aircraft that can travel at 10 times the speed of sound, or just under 8,000 mph. To reach its incredible Mach 10 speed, the Skreemr jet would have to take off from a "magnetic rail-gun la...

Broadband over power lines (BPL) is a method of power line communication that allows relatively high-speed digital data transmission over the electric power distribution wiring. BPL uses higher frequencies, a wider frequency range and different technologies from other forms of power-line communications to provide high-rate communication over longer distances. BPL uses frequencies which are part of the radio spectrum allocated to over-the-air communication services therefore the prevention of int...

Shoes LargeScale Lego Giraffe Han Solo In Carbonite Japan (In 1.8 Million Bricks) Lego Prosthetic Leg LEGO Pharaoh   https://youtu.be/0dC_4IqXgTs  

The Hiriko is a folding two-seat urban electric car being developed by the Hiriko Driving Mobility consortium in the Basque Country. The electric car is the commercial implementation of the CityCar project developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. The name Hiriko comes from the Basque word for "urban" or "from the city". Three versions are being developed: the Fold microcar; the Alai, a convertible; and the Laga, a small truck. The Hiriko is designed specifically for s...

To fuel a hydrogen car from water, electricity is used to generate hydrogen by electrolysis. The resulting hydrogen is an energy carrier that can power a car by reacting with oxygen from the air to create water, either through burning in a combustion engine or catalyzed to produce electricity in a fuel cell. Instead of being filled up with petrol or diesel, the Mirai (the word is Japanese for ‘future’) is powered by the most common element in the universe — hydrogen. The gas is inserted in...

Voice remote for Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick Use voice search with the built-in mic to instantly find TV shows, movies, and games Quickly skip to your favorite scenes with standard navigation and playback controls Control your Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick from anywhere in the room using Bluetooth voice remote from XFINITY The new Xfinity remote with voice control lets viewers search for networks, shows and movies; set DVR recordings. Control your TV using your voice wi...

Rainmaking, also known as artificial precipitation or artificial rainfall, is the act of attempting to artificially induce or increase precipitation, usually to stave off drought. According to the clouds' different physical properties, this can be done using airplanes or rockets to sow to the clouds with catalysts such as dry ice, silver iodide and salt powder, to make clouds rain or increase precipitation, to remove or mitigate farmland drought, to increase reservoir irrigation water or water s...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a serious health condition that gets worse over time. In this disease, the body’s natural guard against illness (the immune system) damages fatty coverings called myelin sheaths around the axons of cells called neurons in the central nervous system. The disease makes people’s bodies, eyesight, speech, and minds work poorly. People with MS do not normally live as long as healthy people. In healthy people, myelin sheaths help neurons work. Electric signals in neurons ...

In mathematics, four-dimensional space ("4D") is a geometric space with four dimensions. It typically is more specifically four-dimensional Euclidean space, generalizing the rules of three-dimensional Euclidean space. It has been studied by mathematicians and philosophers for over two centuries, both for its own interest and for the insights it offered into mathematics and related fields. Algebraically, it is generated by applying the rules of vectors and coordinate geometry to a space with f...

Your brain is constantly producing electrical signals while it operates, as the cellular components of the brain (neurons) communicate with each other. At a macro scale, they produce a range of frequencies that scientists have found relate to particular mental states. For example, a sleeping person’s brain produces an abundance of delta waves, whereas an alert and awake person concentrating hard on something will produce far more beta waves. The Mindwave headset picks up your brain’s electric...

Direct FuelCell® power plants are generating ultra-clean, efficient and reliable power at more than 50 locations worldwide. With more than 300 megawatts of power generation capacity installed or in backlog, FuelCell Energy is a global leader in providing ultra-clean baseload distributed generation to utilities, industrial operations, universities, municipal water treatment facilities, government installations and other customers globally. The Company’s power plants are fuel flexible using on-sit...

iHealth is a innovative health product development company, its products are consumer-friendly, and are mobile personal healthcare products that connect to the cloud. Their products are easy-to-use, making it simple for consumers to accurately measure, track and share a full range of health vitals. By automatically connecting the data through the cloud, consumers are able to see a more comprehensive view of their vitals and easily share information with healthcare professionals or loved ones. ...

There are three phases to falling in love and different hormones are involved at each stage. Events occurring in the brain when we are in love have similarities with mental illness. When we are attracted to somebody, it could be because subconsciously we like their genes. Smell could be as important as looks when it comes to the fanciability factor. We like the look and smell of people who are most like our parents. Science can help determine whether a relationship will last. In the attrac...

Zika is a flavivirus, which is pronounced a bit a like flavor. Flay-v-virus. Most viruses in this family are carried by arthropods — mosquitoes and ticks. We’ve known about Zika virus since at least 1947, when researchers from the Rockefeller Foundation put a rhesus monkey in a cage in the middle of Zika Forest of Uganda. The team was conducting surveillance for yellow fever. But “Rhesus 766” would ultimately become the first known carrier of Zika virus. Symptoms are mild — a fever, joint pai...

The birth control shot is an injection of a hormone that prevents pregnancy. Each shot prevents pregnancy for three months. The shot is also known by the brand name Depo-Provera, or by the name of the medicine in the shot, DMPA. The birth control shot is a hormonal method of birth control. It is also known as Depo-Provera or DMPA. The birth control shot is an injection of the hormone progestin. It prevents pregnancy for up to three months. DMPA was approved by the Food and Drug Administ...

Scientists in Britain have applied for permission to genetically modify human embryos as part of a research project into the earliest stages of human development. The work marks a controversial first for the UK and comes only months after Chinese researchers became the only team in the world to announce they had altered the DNA of human embryos. Kathy Niakan, a stem cell scientist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, has asked the government’s fertility regulator for a licence to perf...

Memristor is an electrical component that limits or regulates the flow of electrical current in a circuit and remembers the amount of charge that has previously flowed through it. Memristors are important because they are non-volatile, meaning that they retain memory without power. A collaborative of Russian and Italian scientists has created a neural network based on polymeric memristors, devices that can potentially be used to build fundamentally new computers. According to the research...

Metallic microlattice is a synthetic porous metallic material, consisting of an ultra-light metal foam. With a density as low as 0.9 kg/m3 (0.00561 lb/ft3), it is one of the lightest structural materials known to science.It was developed by a team of scientists from California-based HRL Laboratories, in collaboration with researchers at University of California, Irvine and Caltech, and was first announced in November 2011. The prototype samples were made from a nickel-phosphorus alloy.In 2012, t...

The Hyperloop is a conceptual high-speed transportation system put forward by entrepreneur Elon Musk, incorporating reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on an air cushion driven by linear induction motors and air compressors. As of 2015, designs for test tracks and capsules are being developed, with construction of a full-scale prototype scheduled to start in 2016. His presentation of the Hyperloop concept, which came along with futuristic renderings of sleek aluminum pas...