Wearable Pollution Monitor Created

Posted on May 31, 2015 by 41629066

Environmentally conscious? The TZOA Pollution Monitor might interest you. It’s a wearable device that detects air pollution, an environmental issue that plagues many modern cities. It’s simple: “A fan directly beneath TZOA’s triangular cover sucks in air. As pollutants cross a laser, they scatter light onto a sensor that counts them. TZOA then glows a color corresponding to the air safety level. A smartphone app also displays that data, along with daily UV light exposure and crowdsourced polluti...

Legos Used to Create Most Affordable Braille Printer

Posted on May 31, 2015 by 41629066

Legos aren't just child's play. The world's most affordable Braille printer is made out of them and won one of 10 of Popular Science’s 2015 Invention Awards in the Category of Communication. Originally conceived by Shubham Banerjee at twelve years old, the printer was meant to be a cheaper alternative to Braille printers that costed over $1,800. The first prototype, called Braigo, was finished in February 2014 but was “limited to printing on narrow rolls of paper.” “In summer 2014, Banerje...

3D Printing Pens

Posted on January 17, 2015 by

Many people have doodled before. Pens, pencils, and other writing utensils are staples of our everyday life. However they can only do so much. You can not make a solid 3d shape. To solve this, now there are multiple 3d printing pens. One such pen is the 3Doodler. The gadget bills itself as the “world’s first 3D printing pen.” It first exploded in popularity on Kickstarter, and the fundraiser started by its maker, WobbleWorks, smashed its $30,000 goal a few hours after it was launched in Febru...

Controlling a UFO Using Only Your Mind

Posted on January 17, 2015January 17, 2015 by

The first remote control car from 1966 astonished many kids at the time. Nowadays, the remote control is something we all just shrug off. What if we had another unique and innovative method of controlling things. Currently there are many solutions, but one of these solutions is a toy that can be controlled by using your mind. The Mind Controlled UFO is a unique toy that not many kids are too familiar with yet. It is a unique take to a remote controlled flying machine. This toy does not have t...

Creating your own Motion Controlled Robotic Hand

Posted on January 17, 2015 by

Did you know that you can create your own robotic hand? You only need a few parts, all of which are simple to find. All you need is to use servos, an Arduino microprocessor, a gyroscope and multiple bend sensors. Using a glove, you can control the robotic hand, as it does exactly what your hand does. This is because the glove contains the gyroscope and bend sensors. These sense the motion of the user's hand, and relay that information to the servos. The robotic arm can move in anyway a human arm...

Scientists create an energy dense battery out of sugar

Posted on December 23, 2014 by

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...

How Researchers are Taking Computers out of Computing

Posted on December 21, 2014 by

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...

New inFORM technology allows you to remotely cause physical changes on a remote plane.

Posted on December 21, 2014 by

A new technology from MIT, known as the inFORM, has surfaced. This product allows the owner to move things remotely, without any kind of remote control. You basically control an object placed on the inFORM. It is known as an inFORM, or a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface. Remote participants in a...

Scientists Send A Brain-To-Brain Message Over 5,000 Miles

Posted on October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 by 41629066

According to a new study released by PLoS, a group of scientists have successfully sent a message between two brains, without actually implanting anything in either person. Yes, this was all achieved across a normal skull without any wires being inserted. Simply put, one person was shown an image, which was picked up by an external set of sensors which measure brain activity (known as an electroencephalogram or EEG), and then this activity was sent over the internet to a robot-assisted, image-g...

Solar windows of tomorrow

Posted on September 7, 2014September 9, 2014 by 41629066

Solar energy that doesn’t block the view A team of researchers at Michigan State University has developed a new type of solar concentrator that when placed over a window creates solar energy while allowing people to actually see through the window. It is called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator and can be used on buildings, cell phones and any other device that has a clear surface. And, according to Richard Lunt of MSU’s College of Engineering, the key word is “...

Compact Bike – Next Generation of Bikes

Posted on September 7, 2014September 25, 2014 by 41629066

The most compact folding bike in the world Imagine a folding bicycle with a weight of 7 kg, which fits conveniently in the airlines hand luggage size, is folded in less than 10 sec and still has 4,5 - 7,5 meters of development. Kwiggle®Bike is the only bicycle in the world featuring this unique combination of drivability, compactness and weight. Kwiggle®Bike is ideal for your next journey, perfect for commuters and everyone will find space for it in his flat or backpack. T...

Kinect Cart

Posted on August 28, 2014August 28, 2014 by

The quest for a high-tech “shopping cart of the future” is nothing new, but Whole Foods is planning to test a new spin on the concept, using Microsoft’s Kinect sensor for Windows. The motorized cart identifies a shopper with a loyalty card, follows the shopper around the store, scans items as they’re placed inside, marks them off the shopping list, and even checks the shopper out in the end. Microsoft showed the very early prototype, being developed for Whole Foods by a third-party developer, Au...

Garbage May Pave the Streets of the Future

Posted on August 21, 2014 by 41629066

Garbage, and more specifically, plastic, may pave the streets of the future. In fact, in India, it already has now. It is difficult to exaggerate India’s garbage problem. Jairam Ramesh, the nation’s former environment minister, has said that if there were a “Nobel prize for dirt and filth,” India would win it. Much of India’s garbage is made up of plastic—a scourge of the nation’s new consumer economy. Although the nation’s per capita consumption of plastic is low compared with that of the...

Tiny Chip Mimics the Human Brain

Posted on August 21, 2014 by 41629066

Cognitive computing is the future of computer processing, or at least, that's what it seems. Researchers earlier this month unveiled a powerful new postage-stamp size chip delivering supercomputer performance using a process that mimics the human brain. The so-called "neurosynaptic" chip is a breakthrough that opens a wide new range of computing possibilities from self-driving cars to artificial intelligence systems that can installed on a smartphone, the scientists say. The researchers...

Forget Waiters: Robots are now serving food at a restaurant in China

Posted on August 21, 2014August 21, 2014 by 41629066

Would you go to a restaurant where you are greeted and served by robots? Science fiction meets reality at a Chinese restaurant that uses robots to cook and deliver food. Mechanical staff greet customers, deliver dishes to tables and even stir-fry meat and vegetables at the eatery in Kunshan,which opened last week. "My daughter asked me to invent a robot because she doesn't like doing housework," the restaurant's founder Song Yugang said. Two robots are stationed by the door to cheerful...

Harvard & MIT Researchers Create Origami Robots

Posted on August 12, 2014 by

For years, a team of researchers at MIT and Harvard University has been working on origami robots — reconfigurable robots that would be able to fold themselves into arbitrary shapes. In today’s issue of Science, they report their latest milestone: a robot, made almost entirely from parts produced by a laser cannon that folds itself up and crawls away as soon as batteries are attached to it. “The exciting thing here is that you create this device that has computation embedded in the flat, p...

ENR FutureTech Conference: December 2014

Posted on August 6, 2014 by 41629066

ENR will be holding their ENR FutureTech Conference at Georgia Tech this year. The Conference has been described as an event where, "technology suppliers, CIOs and consultants, top AEC executives and project managers, and students will come together to inspire and challenge each other on how technology has the power to advance modern construction practices and processes." The Conference is geared towards business leaders such as: AEC Technology Leaders: Chief Information Officers Ch...

Harley Davidson Innovates with Project Live Wire

Posted on June 28, 2014August 4, 2014 by 41629066

Project LiveWire™ is the next major milestone in the history of The Motor Company – The first Harley-Davidson® motorcycle with an electric engine. This is Harley-Davidson® way by bringing this innovation to the street to gain feedback from customers. HD is inviting customers to ride the motorcycle and tell them what they think. Even those who don’t ride yet can take a ride on Jumpstart™ Demo, a simulated riding experience that doesn’t require any experience or a motorcycle license. The Project i...