Smart Phone Based Radiation Detector

Posted on June 28, 2016 by

Smart Radiation Detector. Mint-case-sized Radiation Detector connected with iPhone via microphone input, at a low price by using cheap PIN Photo-diode. Japan has raised awareness about the absorption of radioactive materials into the food and water. The Smart Radiation Detector can detect and confirm radiation levels to help you avoid contaminated resources. Medical professionals and rescue team operators could use this when working in nuclear-related disaster A commercial silicon PIN-phot...

Unusual Hotels

Posted on May 29, 2016 by

Treehotel, Harads, Sweden - http://treehotel.se/en/ Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho, USA - http://www.dogbarkparkinn.com/ Icehotel, Jukkasjärvi, Sweden - http://www.icehotel.com/ Das Park Hotel, Linz, Austria - http://www.dasparkhotel.net/ Crane Hotel, Harlingen, The Netherlands - http://www.havenkraan.nl/en/information/

Next Generation Of Earphones

Posted on May 15, 2016 by

enso Track: These wearable biometric earphones are an all-in-one gadget that senses, tracks and manages fitness, activity, health, music and more. Dash is a wireless smart earphone that combines 3 essential features in 1 product. Listen to music without any other device, or stream crystal clear audio from your phone. Use the Optical Touch on the Dash to control it. No buttons, just taps and swipes. Realtime Activity Feedback The Activity Tracker can g...

Innovative products

Posted on May 12, 2016 by

speeCup Portable Bluetooth Speaker: The speeCup is a Siri/S voice activated portable Bluetooth speaker. This portable 8" tall speaker connects via Bluetooth, has a range up to 30 feet and can also be connected using auxiliary cable directly to your car or home stereo system. It also features gesture control and plays music and functions as a handsfree speakerphone in your car. urv Guitar: This stringless digital guitar lets you to learn and play songs using touch, gestures and more. The d...

Technology for Mars Puts Bubbles into Beer

Posted on March 20, 2016 by

At the end of a long day of work, many people like to grab a cold pint of beer. Few of them think about the bubbles in the glass and how much brewers have to pay to put them there. But Robert Zubrin — president of the Mars Society and founder of multiple aerospace technology companies — does. Zubrin and his companies have worked with Johnson Space Center’s In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) team for years, developing technologies that could take existing substances on Mars — especially Marti...

Dubai’s Indoor Ski – A modern day marvel

Posted on March 14, 2016 by

Did you ever imagine you’d come to the desert to go skiing? Ski Dubai in Mall of the Emirates is the first indoor ski resort to open in the Middle East. You’ll discover 22,500 square metres of snow spread over five runs of varying difficulty, from the bunny slope to the black run, along with a freestyle area for snowboarders and tobogganers. The 3,000-square-metre Snow Park is great family fun, with snow caves, toboggan slopes and tube rides. Ski Dubai is an indoor ski resort with 22,500 squ...

HOTEL ROOM OF THE FUTURE

Posted on March 14, 2016 by

RFID night lights Small stickers embedded with RFID sensors will soon pop up in Aloft hotels around the world, but you’ll never see them: they’ll be hidden under the carpet near your bed. Triggered by movement and weight, these stickers will sense when you wake up in the middle of the night and trigger the night light in the bathroom. Robot Butlers Aloft has been testing the so-called “Botlr” at its Cupertino and Silicon Valley properties since last August. Soon, the digitized b...

Innovative and creative Ideas that can make life easier.

Posted on February 28, 2016 by

Innovative and creative Ideas that can make life easier.

Oxygen green table as natural air purifier for your home

Posted on January 18, 2016 by

As natural air outside becomes more polluted, many are turning towards indoor air purifiers for clean oxygen. The Oxygen of Green concept is a coffee table that grows Air Plants (which do not need soil) and produces oxygen at night so you can wake up every morning to clean and fresh air. Designed by Devon Mingling Wang, the “Oxygen of Green” low table, essentially uses a soil-less plant called Tillandsias to purify air. The Tillandsias plant produces a decent amount of oxygen, particularly...

AquaFresco – Reinventing laundry

Posted on December 19, 2015 by

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.”...

Haiku ceiling fan for the smart home owner

Posted on November 25, 2015 by

Haiku ceiling fan includes Wi-Fi connectivity and sensors that enable it to regulate temperature and kick into action when someone enters the room. With either aluminum, Moso bamboo or matrix composite airfoils, Haiku uses a built-in Wi-Fi module, infrared motion, ambient temperature and humidity sensors to help maintain the user's ideal room temperature. This means it can start up or wind down as you enter or leave a room, speed up as more people enter the room and the temperature and humidity ...

WiFi Nomiku is the world’s first WiFi-enabled immersion circulator

Posted on October 15, 2015 by

Nomiku allows a temperature-controlled way of cooking conveniently at your home. WiFi Nomiku, the world’s first WiFi-connected immersion circulator is a convenient device for sous-vide cooking with a small footprint, a large screen for displaying recipes, Wi-Fi connectivity to allow communication between chefs and has an app that’s both iOS and Android compatible. Sous vide is the method of cooking vacuum-sealed food in a controlled low-temperature water bath. It is a top chef's secret wea...

P&G and Whirlpool introduce SWASH™, the only 10-minute clothing care system designed to fit your life

Posted on October 13, 2015October 13, 2015 by

SWASH, a breakthrough technology de-wrinkles, refreshes, restores fit and preserves garments at the touch of a button. P&G and Whirlpool Corporation, two of the world’s leading companies for laundry care, have announced the introduction of this innovative product. SWASH™ is a revolutionary at-home clothing care system that reduces wrinkles, refreshes fabric, restores the fit lost after wear and preserves clothing, in just ten minutes with the push of a button. The tall and thin device,...

Flyte lightbulb levitates and rotates in the air.

Posted on October 9, 2015 by

Flyte is a levitating light which hovers by magnetic levitation and is powered through the air. The amazing flyte hovering light uses magnetic levitation and wireless technology to rotate continuously with almost no friction. It is described as a new way to experience light, one that is free from the constraints of gravity and enhances wireless technology to receive power. Combing tesla laws of induction with the signature bulb, it is powered through the air making it safe and harmless as it nee...

Breathe fresh clean air in a SmartVent home.

Posted on October 9, 2015 by

SmartVent Evolve is an intelligent tablet based system that lets you control your home’s internal climate. This new system quietly ventilates your home with fresher, drier air, removing condensation and moisture and creating a healthier, more comfortable living environment. It is set to change home ventilation forever. Evolve’s sensor technology can monitor both temperature and humidity to effectively control condensation. This air is passed through a high efficiency filter and introduced int...

Pickaplant Tableau is an automatic plant watering tray.

Posted on October 6, 2015 by

Tableau is a work of art. It waters house plants in a wet-dry cycle using zero electricity and makes growing leafy greens, bright florals, and tasty herbs super easy to grow. Many of us like to have houseplants in our homes, bringing a little of the outside inside. The problem is remembering to water them on a regular basis. Tableau is a new take on an automatic watering system for houseplants that aims to make it easy to avoid either over or under watering the plants. It is the third and ...

Cool Oculus – innovative ways to make buildings comfortable

Posted on October 6, 2015 by

Spiraling and swiveling, the large, metal structure currently sitting in the lobby of Princeton University’s School of Architecture opens and closes like a blossom. An aluminum blossom with sharp, louvered blades for petals. It’s a Cool Oculus, a high-tech chimney prototype that uses passive cooling techniques to keep a building comfortable in a desert climate. It integrates two passive cooling strategies into one architectural system.These complement one another on a day-night cycle in a des...

The Reveeco EcoVéa recycling shower

Posted on October 5, 2015 by

Possibly the world’s most intelligent shower, EcoVéa recycles water within your shower to push the limits of water conservation. The EcoVéa is a revolutionary ecological shower system that provides considerable water and energy savings, whatever the length, flow, or temperature of the shower. You can now enjoy long, comfortable, guilt-free showers. Promising a savings of up to 80% on both water and energy, the Ecovea system recycles water for immediate reuse, letting you shower in a sort of g...

Wikipearls: Bite-sized foods wrapped in edible Food packaging

Posted on October 1, 2015 by

WikiFoods, Inc. has developed a revolutionary, plastic-free food and beverage packaging technology that delivers Triple Good called WikiPearls™ which are good for you, good for the environment, and just plain good. Created by David Edwards, a Harvard professor and biomedical engineer, the intention of the WikiPearl is to kill the packaging and make its relationship with food symbiotic. WikiPearl skins are inspired by the way nature packages fruits and vegetables. These skins are delicious ...

Improving Solar Efficiency with Stanford coating

Posted on October 1, 2015 by

Stanford engineers invent transparent coating that cools solar cells to boost efficiency. A transparent material that can improve the efficacy of solar cells, this coating has been invented by three Stanford engineers and has the tendency to radiate thermal energy into space which is released by solar cells, making cells cool. This invention shunts away the heat generated by a solar cell under sunlight and cools it in a way that allows it to convert more photons into electricity. The gr...

Nightlight Simplified With Touch

Posted on September 28, 2015 by

The Senzo Nightlight is an innovative lamp designed to provide a soft light that follows you in the dark at the very touch of your fingertips. With this kind of design, there isn't any more stumbling and fumbling in the night. Designed by Soledad Clavell and Marcos Madia, and inspired by the notion of ‘fingertips skimming the walls until you reach the door’, this tubular Senzo Nightlight is fitted on the wall approximately 80 cm above the floor for maximum convenience. At night if you don’...

The New Swan Umbrella Dryer

Posted on September 28, 2015 by

A new concept called the Swan umbrella dryer has just been introduced, to dry a wet umbrella to avoid water from spilling all around the place. We all get caught out in the rain on many occasions and need to use an umbrella. Sometimes it is really pouring along with thunderstorms and windy climate. We get totally drenched along with a soaking umbrella in such situations. The house gets very slippery and messy when the umbrella is all wet and we normally tend to leave them on the front p...

A House that Walks

Posted on September 15, 2015 by

An eco friendly house can actually walk. The latest invention derived from a collaborative effort between MIT and the Danish design collective N55 is a house that walks about five kilometers an hour similar to the walking speed of a human. The eco-friendly prototype house powered by solar cells, miniature windmills and 6 legs walked around the campus of the Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire, England. It comprises of a kitchen, a composting toilet, a system for collecting rain water,...

A 3-D Printer that can Sculpt Using Anything From Silicone to Nutella

Posted on September 12, 2015 by

Edible materials can make experimenting with 3-D printing more fun for kids. The latest technology from Ontario-based Structur3D Printing lets printers work with a wide variety of gel materials to produce everything from silicone-based orthotic shoe inserts to custom cake toppers printed from icing sugar. The technology of 3D printing machinery that carves or sculpts 3D objects from a block of material using a computer generated design has been around for years. Although fast and accurate,...

Horizontal Showers Enhance Showering Experience

Posted on September 10, 2015 by

A horizontal shower provides, for the first time, a reclining shower experience. Imagine if you could extend your nap time by a precious 10 minutes or so when you wake up. Most of us can barely muster the energy to get out of bed and go into the shower in the morning. German company Dornbracht has actually made this possible by creating a device called the Horizontal Shower which washes you while you are lying down. The shower looks like a tanning bed mounted to the wall with an array of s...

World’s First Undersea Resort Built

Posted on September 8, 2015 by

The holiday complex, Poseidon Resort, has been developed. This is no ordinary hotel--it's located 40 feet under the sea in a lagoon off the shore of a private island in Fiji. L. Bruce Jones, a submarine inventor, has invented the world's first undersea resort. It was due to open in 2008 and has an estimated 150,000 potential guests on its waiting list. It has taken 13 years in the making. The Poseidon Resort comprises of approximately 225 acres and is about a mile long. Accessible via a...

Floating Aerohotel: A Modern Aquatecture Marvel

Posted on February 15, 2015 by 41629066

Designed by Alexander Asadov, this incredible floating Aerohotel features a lighter-than-air aesthetic that sits serenely atop an elegant system of supports. Conceived as an elevated aquatic structure replete with hanging gardens, the space-age floating island preserves the entire extent of the ecosystem beneath it, contrasting with man-made islands that disrupt their immediate environment with tons of gravel fill. Aerohotel consists of a 200 meter wide circular hub lofted by an interlacing n...