Connected commerce is about effectively connecting publishers and developers of digital goods, their products, their retailers and resellers, their customers, as well as the connected objects (Internet of Things (IoT)) to all happen as single transaction. Ubiquitous Commerce also known as U-Commerce, u commerce or uCommerce, refers to a variety of goods and/or services. Sometimes, it is used to refer to the wireless, continuous communication and exchange of data and information between and am...

The Air Bonsai consists of 2 main components, the “energy base,” made from Japanese ceramic, and the levitating “little star.”  Both come with built-in magnets that enable the levitation. The base also comes with an AC adapter and needs to be plugged in. Hoshinchu, the Kyushu-based workshop that created Air Bonsai, recently launched a crowd-funding campaign to bring their product to the market. It appears that the basic Air Bonsai set starts at $200 and they’re targeting a delivery date of Au...

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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...

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...

Lego Toy-shaped bricks could help construction industry build 80% faster. Concrete bricks are customisable and have been designed to slot together, a company claims they would arrive in the correct size and slot into place.  All of the infrastructure would be accessed through removable panels, this means insulation could be adjusted, and pipes accessed easily. KITE BRICKS IS DEVELOPING A REVOLUTIONARY PRODUCT One that will change the way we build houses, buildings, bridges and sidewalks. Fro...

The MIST therapy system is a low-frequency, noncontact ultrasound device. The generator converts voltage to high-frequency electrical energy. The electrical energy is transmitted to a piezoelectric transducer (lead zirconate titanate PZT), where it is changed to mechanical energy. The transducer operates at 40 KHz with a distal displacement of 60 to 70 microns. The mechanical energy is transferred to a transducer horn (titanium alloy) that vibrates longitudinally, creating an acoustic pressure o...

Sugar is an excellent energy source. As a culture we’ve probably known about it since before we were Homo sapiens. The problem is, unless you’re a living organism or some kind of incendiary device, extracting that energy is difficult. In nature, an enzymatic pathway is used — a production line of tailor-made enzymes that meddle with the glucose molecules until they become ATP. Because it’s easy enough to produce enzymes in large quantities, researchers have tried to create fuel cells that use ar...

Innovative Package Design for Products Shirt packaging that can also be a hanger Apple Baguette The design process resulted in the 'baguette' package, developed for apples, but at a later stage also to be used for other fruits. The cardboard packaging offers more protection to the apple, as well as more communication space. "We had several ideas," says designer Aster Witteman, "but this particular design was chosen because of its natural look, the innovative design, the stacking a...

Space tourism is space travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes. A number of startup companies have sprung up in recent years, such as Virgin Galactic and XCOR Aerospace, hoping to create a sub-orbital space tourism industry. Only through the exploration of the unknown can we continue to grow and evolve. Space is not only important for the future of transportation, commerce, and science; it’s also important for the future of imagination. We still know so little about space and ho...

3D PRINTED SOLAR ENERGY TREES Very decorative prototypes of what is called “energy harvesting trees”. The tiny leaves generate and store solar energy and can be used to power small appliances and mobile devices. They flourish indoors and outdoors and can also harvest kinectic energy from wind and temperature changes in the surrounding environment. http://www.vttresearch.com/ 3-D Printed Prosthetics Bespoke Innovation treats artificial limbs like works of art and the e-Nable pro...

MIT Researchers have developed a new type of transparent solar cell. You might be You might be wondering, if solar panels absorb sunlight then how is it possible to make them transparent unless they are extremely inefficient? Well, light from the sun contains more than just visible light; it also contains ultraviolet rays and infrared rays which are invisible to the human eye. Transparent solar cells work by absorbing these forms of the electromagnetic spectrum instead of the traditional visi...

Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic fields occurring in certain materials when cooled below a characteristic critical temperature. The electrical resistivity of a metallic conductor decreases gradually as temperature is lowered. In ordinary conductors, such as copper or silver, this decrease is limited by impurities and other defects. Even near absolute zero, a real sample of a normal conductor shows some resistance. In a supercond...

Hadeel Ayoub student at Goldsmiths University of London in England has been working to build smart glove which can take the sign language and convert it to common language. Hadeel Ayoub has created a series of smart glove prototypes that can detect sign language gestures, and use digital processing to translate them so that the wearer can be understood by someone who does not know sign language. Ayoub created three different prototypes. The first one outputs a single letter to a display an...

The Mobile Lorm Glove is a communication and translation device for the visually challenged and hearing impaired. It translates the hand-touch alphabet Lorm, a common form of communication used by people with both hearing and vision impairment, into digital text and vice-versa. The prototype translates “Lorm” into digital text and vice versa. Lorm is a series of hand-tracing gestures that map to characters of the alphabet, used as a common form of communication by people with both hearing and...

Based in Zaragoza, Spain, Libelium is an Internet of Things company that manufactures wireless sensor network devices that help systems to incorporate reliable IoT, M2M and smart city solutions. Libelium is developing sensors for all walks of our lives. Libelium’s wireless sensor platform, Waspmote, is easy to use and compatible with third-party systems. Operating in 75 countries, Libelium is one of the few startups supported by a community of more than 2000 developers. 50 Sensor Appli...

The Solar Mosquito Destroyer Inventor: Mathews K Mathew Developed in Kerala, this one-of-its-kind device could be a roaring success in the cities as well as far as we’re concerned. Using the septic tank smell as an attracting device for the mosquitoes, heat builds up inside it due to direct exposure to sunlight. Once the mosquitoes are trapped inside, they eventually die due to the accumulated heat. This device is a one-time investment, as it requires nothing but the sun’s rays for its wor...

The government of India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a vision of developing 100 smart cities as satellite towns of larger cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities. The government plans to identify 20 smart cities in 2015, 40 in 2016 and another 40 in 2017. Currently, 31% of India’s population live in cities, and generate 63% of the nation’s economic activity. Urban population numbers are increasing rapidly, with almost half of India’s population p...

Many of the ancient city of Alexandria’s relics, including the alleged remains of Cleopatra VII’s palace  are submerged under 20 feet of water, and have sat placidly beneath the surface of Abu Qir Bay for more than 1,000 years. The ruins, both mysterious and integral to Egypt’s rich history, have been publicly known as hidden artifacts, but might become part of a fantastical tourist attraction in the coming years. Antiquities buried a mere 20 feet under the surface in Abukir Bay include th...