Gadgets
This week, young 13 year old Maanasa Mendu of Ohio won 3M’s prestigious Discovery Education Young Scientist Challenge by inventing a device that creates clean energy. Her entire project and invention only cost her five dollars to make. Young Maanasa can now claim to be the Top Young Scientist in America as well as taking …
A new type of bicycle lock has been developed that ends up spraying the potential thieves with a spray that is so noxious that, in the majority of the tests, caused the thieves to vomit without control or to panic and run away. It took Daniel Idzkowski six months to develop the idea and to …
Two years ago, the American designer Richard Clarkson created something he called a Smart Cloud. It was a ceiling lamp, containing a bluetooth speaker, built to resemble an ominous thunder cloud. It was a huge break from traditional design for such things but the drawback to it was that some of the realistic quality was taken …
China’s gigantic search engine company, Baidu, has recently launched a smartphone app that will actually be able to tell you if you are sick. The app has launched in China and it is expected to be heartily embraced but analysts are not that certain that the English version, and eventual American launch, will be successful. …
An inventor in Japan has designed a wind turbine that will enable the world to harness the devastating power and energy of a typhoon. Inventor and engineer Atsushi Shimizu has done just that. He hopes his new turbine will collect and redistribute the tremendous amount of wind energy provided by a typhoon. Japan is hardly …
A company in the Netherlands has created a device that they hope will assist with the phenomenon of lucid dreaming. Basically, though hardly simplistic, lucid dreaming is where someone is actually aware of the fact that they are, indeed, dreaming. The person knows that they are in this alternate reality and can better stay aware …
Toyota has debut a robot baby. It is named Kirobo Mini and it will fit in the palm of a human hand. In yet another leap forward in the companion robot genre, Toyota hopes these robot babies will appeal, and sell, to young Japanese women without children. Japan’s national birth rate has been in free …
For people using upper body prosthetics, it has been decades of frustration and anger. Despite huge leaps in technology and engineering over the past twenty years, bionic arms still remain clunky and unresponsive. Since 2007, nearly 80% of those using upper body limbs have rejected them. Until now it seems. The problem has always been …
A new wrist watch strap developed by a South Korean company can actually turn your hand into a cell phone. It is called Signl and this innovative gadget transfers the signals from a cell phone and forces them to travel through your body. By bringing and hand or a finger to your ear, the sounds …
Scientists working at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, have created a device that employs wireless signals to determine emotions in someone at a distance. The device is called the EQ Radio and it can measure a person’s heartbeat and breathing to determine what emotions a person may be feeling. At least, this is …