Commercial products that produce water from Air

Posted on May 27, 2016 by

Atmospheric water solutions manufacture machines that produce purified water from air. These Innovative machines extract humidity from the air which is filtered, condensed, and then processed through an additional multi-step filtration system; producing “purified great tasting water™”, with no chlorine, fluoride, or heavy metals present. Their AquaBoy® Pro II machine makes hot and cold water from air , filters it and stores up to 2 to 5 gallons every day. It’s easy to operate, environm...

Biodegradable plastics

Posted on May 26, 2016May 26, 2016 by

Biodegradable bags are bags that are capable of being decomposed by bacteria or other living organisms. There are two very different types of biodegradable plastic. they are as follows: Oxo-biodegradable plastic - made from polymers such as PE (polyethylene) PP (polypropylene) and PS (polystyrene) containing extra ingredients (NOT heavy metals) and tested according to ASTM D6954 or BS8472 or AFNOR Accord T51-808 to degrade and biodegrade in the open environment and Vegetable based plastic...

Innovative camping kit

Posted on May 22, 2016 by

Mobile Foodie Survival Kit: The Mobile Foodie Survival Kit is a travel-sized spice pack that makes sure you don't have sub-par food. Anywhere you go, you are stocked with organic herbs and spices. Nightlux Handpowered Lamp and Flashlight: Its lightweight and compact design makes this lantern perfect for traveling; its handpowered or recharges via USB, has two brightness modes, and easily shifts from flashlight to lantern. Reborn by X Zhichao: Reborn is a multi functional ...

Blynk – is a new platform that allows you to quickly build interfaces for controlling and monitoring your hardware projects from your iOS and Android device.

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

Blynk is a Platform with iOS and Android apps to control Arduino, Raspberry Pi and the likes over the Internet. It's a digital dashboard where you can build a graphic interface for your project by simply dragging and dropping widgets. It's really simple to set everything up and you'll start tinkering in less than 5 mins. Blynk is not tied to some specific board or shield. Instead, it's supporting hardware of your choice. Whether your Arduino or Raspberry Pi is linked to the Internet ove...

New super-strong aerogels made of carbon nanotubes that could be key to cleaning up oil spills

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have created low-density, super-strong aerogels made of carbon nanotubes that could be key to cleaning up oil spills. The new material is lighter than air but can absorb 900 times its own weight. It combines the strength and ultra-light, heat-insulating properties of aerogels with the electrical conductivity of nanotubes. he new material is lighter than air but can absorb 900 times its own weight. It combines the strength and ultra-light, heat-ins...

RC Flying Car

Posted on May 15, 2016 by

The RC Flying Car. This is the remote controlled vehicle that races over ground and flies in the air. Swiftly rolling forward/backward on four 1 3/4"-diam. foam-tired wheels when on the ground at 67 mph scale speed, the drone executes sharp lefts/rights from up to 130' away when issued commands from its 2.4 GHz radio remote. You can select between two ground and air speeds, based on operator experience. When an obstacle requires airborne circumnavigation, the drone responds nimbly with up/dow...

Creative Indoor waterfall

Posted on May 14, 2016 by

Fusion CI Studios' vfx sup, Mark Stasiuk, created indoor waterfall for the Salesforce lobby in downtown San Francisco! Simm'd & rendered for creative studio, Obscura Digital, (masters of projection installations!). Geek Deets: Simulation with Realflow, lighting with Maxwell. 1100 frames at 8x HD. Around 250 million polys per frame! #exciting Created as 4 overlapping panels of computer-generated waterfall simulation, using RealFlow's Hybrido. Each simulation panel had about 20 million partic...

Connected Smart Gardening

Posted on May 13, 2016 by

Plant Link: The system monitors the water requirements of your lawn, garden, or house plants; Plant Link alerts you when they need to be watered and can even water them for you. Skydrop Sprinkler Controller: The Skydrop smart sprinkler controller takes the guesswork out of watering. It takes into account various variable factors affecting the soil and intelligently adjusts the watering. You can also monitor or adjust at any time from your smartphone. Motes: Motes come in three different ...

Cleaning with sound waves

Posted on April 12, 2016 by

Sound may not be a normal cleaning product in your house, but it is just the thing for cleaning delicate jewelry, surgical instruments, lenses, and many other small, intricate objects. Soon, it could also make cleaning big objects like houses or machines much more efficient. Cutaway view of a loudspeaker. One model of an ultrasonic cleaner. This benchtop size is used by jewelers, cosmetic and tattoo professionals, dive shops, light manufacturing facilities, maintenance facilities and more. Ph...

Clarity – keychain-sized wearable device aimed at tracking air quality

Posted on March 21, 2016 by

Clarity is a small, keychain-sized wearable air pollution sensor aimed at tracking air quality in badly polluted places David Lu who teamed up with seven other students at University of California and decided to do something about it. The team came up with the ‘Clarity’, the world’s first ever air monitor. Clarity is a keychain-size gadget that will let you track air exposure. It can connect via a smartphone app and gives you real-time alert of air pollution as well as indicates the availabil...

Cranfield’s Nano Membrane Toilet that generate energy to power homes in villages

Posted on March 12, 2016March 12, 2016 by

Cranfield University is developing the Nano Membrane Toilet which will be able to treat human waste on-site without external energy or water. The toilet is designed for single-household use (equivalent to 10 people) and will accept urine and faeces as a mixture. The toilet flush uses a unique rotating mechanism to transport the mixture into the toilet without demanding water whilst simultaneously blocking odour and the user’s view of the waste. Solids separation (faeces) is principally acc...

Updated Earthquake Detection System Provides Data in Minutes

Posted on March 9, 2016 by 41629066

NASA and Scripps Institute of Oceanography have developed an earthquake detection system that provides more accurate data about an earthquake within minutes. When an earthquake strikes, the most valuable information (that is needed immediately) includes its location, depth, and magnitude. The quality of the information and how fast it can be obtained affects the number of lives that can be potentially saved. Currently, seismic sensors on the ground are used to measure how much the eart...

NASA CLEAN AIR STUDY SHOWS HOW TO CLEAN THE AIR IN YOUR HOME AND OFFICE IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS

Posted on February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 by

The NASA Clean Air Study[1] has been led by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in association with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA). Its results suggest that certain common indoor plants may provide a natural way of removing toxic agents such as benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene from the air, helping neutralize the effects of sick building syndrome. INDOOR AIR POLLUTION IS RANKED AMONG TOP 5 HEALTH RISKS TO PUBLIC HEALTH - WHAT IS CAUSING ...

NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) -See Earth LIVE 24×7

Posted on February 27, 2016 by

The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment places four commercially available HD cameras on the exterior of the space station and uses them to stream live video of Earth for viewing online. The cameras are enclosed in a temperature specific housing and are exposed to the harsh radiation of space. Analysis of the effect of space on the video quality, over the time HDEV is operational, may help engineers decide which cameras are the best types to use on future missions. High school studen...

NASA’s carbon nanotube filtration device to eliminate contaminants in water

Posted on February 21, 2016February 21, 2016 by

Innovators at NASA’s Johnson Space Center have developed a filtration device to eliminate contaminants from water supplies. Originally developed to purify wastewater for reuse aboard the International Space Station, the innovation is applicable to numerous situations on Earth where there is a need to collect potable, medical-grade water from a contaminated water supply. The unique aspect of the technology is its use of acoustics rather than pressure to drive water through small-diameter carbon n...

NASA climate change data shows how temperature and rainfall patterns worldwide may change through the year 2100

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

NASA has released data showing how temperature and rainfall patterns worldwide may change through the year 2100 because of growing concentrations of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. The dataset, which is available to the public, shows projected changes worldwide on a regional level in response to different scenarios of increasing carbon dioxide simulated by 21 climate models. The high-resolution data, which can be viewed on a daily timescale at the scale of individual cities and towns,...

Climate change impacting, Chocolate, Coffee…

Posted on February 20, 2016 by

For chocolate lovers, there is simply no substitute, and if cocoa beans could be cultivated anywhere, cocoa (Theobroma cacao) trees might outnumber apple trees in American yards. They would certainly outnumber any plants that produced vegetables. Unfortunately, cacao trees don't thrive in the temperate climate of the continental United States. Chocolate grows best in the places where it would quickly melt in your hands. Over the next several decades, those places may grow wa...

Hyperspectral imaging used to accurately measure specific quantities for a number of disparate applications. Crop Health, Water Depth, Rock Type, Urban Landuse…

Posted on February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 by

Hyperspectral imaging, like other spectral imaging, collects and processes information from across the electromagnetic spectrum. The goal of hyperspectral imaging is to obtain the spectrum for each pixel in the image of a scene, with the purpose of finding objects, identifying materials, or detecting processes. A Hyperspectral Imager is a type of remote sensing instrument that can accurately measure specific quantities for a number of disparate applications. Crop Health, Water Depth, Rock Typ...

Digital health smart monitor for indoor air quality by Foobot

Posted on February 14, 2016 by

Foobot is the first most complete smart monitor helping you take control of your indoor air quality. By scanning 24/7 your environment and learning from your habits, Foobot will provide you warnings and actionable advice to keep fresh air at home. The poor quality impact your sleep, and cause teary eyes or sniffles. The smart Interior Air Quality Monitors, such as Alima, Birdi, Foobot, Netatmo Weather Station, CubeSensor, Withings Home, can help you resolve the big problem and fill your house...

Rainmaking – Weather Modification

Posted on February 3, 2016 by

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...

Transforming human body heat into electricity

Posted on February 2, 2016 by

The average human, at rest, produces around 100 watts of power. Over periods of a few minutes, humans can comfortably sustain 300-400 watts; and in the case of very short bursts of energy, such as sprinting, some humans can output over 2,000 watts. The bulk of this energy is required for important tasks, such as pumping your heart and flexing your muscles, but a lot of it is wasted, primarily as heat. Almost all of this wasted energy could be captured and turned into electricity. Furthermo...

Direct FuelCell builds onion waste processor power plant

Posted on February 2, 2016 by

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...

Memristor – an electrical component with auto pattern recognition and functioning.

Posted on January 31, 2016January 31, 2016 by

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...

levitation using sound wave

Posted on January 25, 2016 by

Acoustic levitation (also: Acoustophoresis) is a method for suspending matter in a medium by using acoustic radiation pressure from intense sound waves in the medium. Sometimes ultrasonic frequencies can be used to levitate objects, thus creating no sound heard by the human ear, such as was demonstrated at Otsuka Lab, while others use audible frequencies. There are various ways of emitting the sound wave, from creating a wave underneath the object and reflecting it back to its source, to usin...

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...

Solar Balloon” Farms Could be the Future of Energy

Posted on January 7, 2016 by 41629066

Imagine if your home was powered by solar balloons that sat above the clouds. Scientists at the Japanese-French Laboratory for Next Generation Photovolatic Cells (NextPV) are aiming to do just that. Solar cells’ efficiency relies on the proximity of the cells to sunlight. Even if the cells are put directly in the path of sunlight, their efficiency is affected significantly by clouds or terrible weather. On a cloudy day, solar panels can produce less than 30% of the electricity they are design...

World’s first super-modular stand-alone acoustic system

Posted on December 30, 2015 by 41629066

This standalone, elegant space divider – or partition system – for offices, hotels and other commercial needs can quickly and seamlessly be expanded to your desired scale, thanks to its modular, super flexible and easy-to-assemble design. benjamin hubert of experience design agency layer has conceived ‘scale’ — a super flexible, modular acoustic partition system for asia pacific textile design and interior finishes company, woven image. ‘scale’ assembly tile modules Composed of presse...

GelenK

Posted on December 28, 2015 by

GelenK is based on a complex and dense future city. This design will display merit in a region where there are a number of cars and narrow intersections regardless of a planned city or not. It will solve a problem that existing trucks couldn’t comprehend downtown and the outside at one time. Existing large trucks could not perform their function well in a complex city and small trucks transporting in the city were not proper for long-distance driving. However, this design can satisfy both functi...

Adidas created a shoe that is literally made out of Trash.

Posted on December 26, 2015 by

German apparel giant Adidas has created a prototype for a sustainable new shoe made almost entirely from recycled garbage pulled from the ocean, the company announced on Monday. The upper shoe is made entirely of yarns and filaments reclaimed from illegal deep-sea gillnets and other ocean waste, while the base is made from sustainable cushioning material. To call ocean pollution a big problem is an understatement. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,...

Illness & Climate Change

Posted on December 25, 2015 by

A new NOAA study, published in the journal Ecological Modeling, forecasts an increase in ciguatera fish poisoning in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Southeast Atlantic coast with predicted rising global ocean temperatures due to climate change. People can be affected by ciguatera, the most common form of algal-induced seafood poisoning, by eating contaminated tropical marine reef fish such as grouper, snapper and barracuda. Scientists are now predicting that global climate change will ciguatera,...