Growing Own Supply Of Mushrooms In Restaurant

A company called Smallhold is changing how restaurants procure produce. They’ve developed a hydroponic system that can be installed to suit most kitchen spaces, or even as an aesthetic addition to the dining room. Inside these glowing blue shelves are mushrooms, whose health and growth is monitored by technology at Smallhold’s headquarters. Vogue interviewed the company’s founders, Andrew Carter and Adam DeMartino. Carter and […]

Heating Up Food Without Fire

For years, the military has been using simple chemical-based heating systems as a way to quickly warm prepackaged rations. Now the YABUL Cook translates such systems into a light-weight silicone device that is foldable and easy to transport. The YABUL Cook isn’t exactly a revolutionary concept. Both the Trekmates flameless cooker and the Mealspec heater bag have used similar technology to bring chemical-based heating […]

Amazon’s New Cool Workplace

Online retail giant Amazon has opened the centerpiece of its new US$4 billion headquarters in Seattle. Consisting of three giant interconnected glass and steel balls, the Spheres blur the lines between workplace and conservatory by combining an open work environment with the surroundings of a mountain tropical rainforest garden, complete with trees over 40 ft tall. Amazon is noted for its openness […]

Reduce Eye Strain With This Glasses

Whether we like it or not, we’re living in a digital world. Not literally, of course, but we all probably spend more time staring at a screen than we’d like to admit — or is good for our eyes. With smartphones, computers, and tablets becoming commonplace at home and at work, you may have started to notice some of the […]

The Most Important Elements Of A Business

Establishing Solid Foundations There are many diverse aspects of business ownership you’ll need to take into account for finest success. You can’t just start buying and selling, trading, providing products/services, or whatever else constitutes your business as simply as deciding to. Well, you can, but your success will take some severe perseverance if you approach it without preparation. A business […]

Keeping Your Feet Cooler

Graphene – the “wonder material” composed of a one-atom-thick sheet of linked carbon atoms – has already been used in products such as helmets, microphones and light bulbs. Now, it’s found its way into a prototype shoe that helps keep your feet cool. Among its other desirable qualities, graphene is very good at conducting heat. With that in mind, researchers from the Istituto Italiano […]

Smart Trash Bins Help To Sort Out Trash Automatically

When you think about real-world uses for artificial intelligence, chances are that “smart trash can” isn’t one of the first things that springs to mind. Nonetheless, that’s what an innovative startup from Poland, called Bin-e, has created with its forthcoming line of trash-sorting waste disposal units. The smart bins use a range of smart sensors, cameras, deep learning image recognition algorithms to make […]

Up Your Game With This Soccer Ball

We’ve already seen a couple of “smart” soccer balls with integrated sensors that track parameters such as the ball’s spin and trajectory. Well, the DribbleUp takes a different approach to smart training. It doesn’t feature any onboard electronics, but instead has markings that allow it to be tracked by a free iOS/Android app. Users start by launching the app, placing their smartphone […]

Helping Autistic Kids

Among other things, children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulty initiating and maintaining conversations. That’s why a team of scientists, led by University of Toronto assistant professor Azadeh Kushki, created Holli. It’s an app that presently runs on Google Glass, and it tells ASD kids what they should say next. “We developed software for a wearable system that […]