(TrendHunter.com) There are three electronic scales in the Alice Wang designed Asimov’s First Law range that highlights the fixation and psychological harm people can have with their (what they believe to be) ideal bodyweight. The collection is named after the first of the Laws of Robotics set out by author Isaac Asi…
(TrendHunter.com) Fold up bikes are usually really dorky looking. Not the Cube concept bike called the Urban Street. Front lights are built in to brake levers and the front wheel hub will turn on lights when needed.
It is fantastic when unfolded and ready to ride and when it is folded, it’s small enough to carry to…
(TrendHunter.com) A new robot named Endurance – an acronym for Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctic Explorer – spent last week probing the depths of Lake Mendota, near Madison, Wisconsin. The University of Illinois at Chicago team that developed the robot traveled to the icy lake to test the rob…
(TrendHunter.com) A slide show appearing on the MSN Tech & Gadgets site recently predicted “Five Sci-Fi Scenarios That Will Come True”.
In order, they are:
â– Biometric Security (2010) – This involves using fingerprints or iris scans or the like to do more than just gain access to a room. They will soon be used i…
(TrendHunter.com) Who cares about that whole High-Definition hoopla anymore when you can download a high-def movie into your gadget within a second?!
IBM is developing next-generation communications technology, Green Optical Link, that uses light instead of wires to send information. The technology uses photons of …
(TrendHunter.com) New software available from NASA will allow you to tag along with Cassini as it explores Saturn and its moons. You can see where Cassini is now, what the probe is doing and where it is going. The NASA website also has many links to explore to further understand the details of the mission, includi…
(TrendHunter.com) If this doo-dad vibrates while doing in-vitro, they’ve got a great invention. OK, it’s great anyway. The Anecova Silicon Womb goes inside the woman and releases the eggs to give them a chance to find a place to land in the womb naturally.
“In the ANECOVA approach, the zygotes are placed in the mat…
(TrendHunter.com) Taking a cue from mother nature, GROW is an innovative and aesthetically ingenious solar and wind power solution inspired by leaves; that utilizes the best of green technology and ecology.
GROW, which is developed by SMIT (Sustainably Minded Interactive Technology), uses a series of flexible sola…
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a new kind of lab coat; the jacket is actually grown in vitro. The science is no longer just for breeding animals and people; it’s now been applied to animal products including leather jackets. This makes it possible to wear goods such as animal skins without ever having to harm a creature.
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(TrendHunter.com) The centerpiece of the world’s first zero-carbon city, Masdar City, has been designed by a Chicago area firm, Adrian Smith & Gordon Gill.
Its 1.4 million square feet will generate more energy than it consumes. It will cost $300,000,000 and will use the world’s largest integrated solar power statio…
(TrendHunter.com) Not only does a heart transplant for people with weak, failing hearts involve the obvious risk of the transplant itself, it almost always involves taking anti-rejection drugs for life. Other alternatives include heart assist devices or even “artificial hearts”, many of which come into direct contact…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’re into nerdy art forms, you’ll surely appreciate this art installation.
In his project, Richard Box combined nature with science as he laid 1,301 fluorescent bulbs on a 3,600 square metre field, with nothing above it but power lines.
The lights, which look like a freshly harvested wheat …
(TrendHunter.com) Currently, robots are controlled using a joystick or other traditional input device. However, a novel system developed by Tokyo University engineer Tsuyoshi Horo, allows operators to issue commands to robots using simple hand and body gestures. And it is not limited for controling robots; Horo has …
(TrendHunter.com) Amanda Baggs is a 27 year old autistic woman who can’t communicate verbally and isn’t fully capable of taking care of herself.
A lot of people don’t have an understanding of the condition, but she wouldn’t let that defeat her. She posted a YouTube video in an attempt to raise awareness which e…
(TrendHunter.com) Leave it to the Japanese to save the planet by covering concrete buildings in fake plastic. In an effort to help keep Tokyo and other cities green and ease the so-called “heat-island” problem of rising temperatures in crowded metropolitans, Japanese brewer Suntory Ltd. has created an alternative to …
(TrendHunter.com) Although I lived at home, I attended an international boarding school, so I had a chance to meet people from a lot of different cultural backgrounds. One of the first things I think about when I think of Koreans is their love of Kimchi, a spicy, pickled, fermented cabbage. It’s one of those foods t…
(TrendHunter.com) Who is putting the “broad” in broadband? Japan is!
The Kizuna, which means “wind”, satellite was launched and it looks like it will be capable of making broadband obsolete. They have introduced the hyper-band 1.2 Gbps – Giga Bits Per Second (Billion bits per second.) That’s a tornado-like 150 time…
(TrendHunter.com) Zoe Papadopoulou at the Royal Academy of Art has developed this novel idea to help those who believe they are sensitive to electromagnetic fields. Mr. Papadopoulou is making shields that fit over and around electric appliances from yarn that contains copper fibers. The copper fibers theoretically ac…
(TrendHunter.com) Japanese Telecom company Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) is launching a commercial room-entry system that frees users from ID cards or keys by utilizing a technology that turns the surface of the human body itself into a means of data transmission. Anyone carrying a special card can unloc…
(TrendHunter.com) As people become more aware of their food sources, they increasingly demand “organicâ€, “naturalâ€, “hormone-freeâ€, and “drug-free†food products. In addition to market demand, it is also desirable to eliminate or limit the use of antibiotics because harmful organisms tend to become a…
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