It was just last year that we heard about Anthouse, an interactive robot designed to entertain your home-alone dog. Unfortunately that project got cancelled, but guilty pet-owners can take heart – Mia has hit Kickstarter. Created by Canada’s Kolony Robotic, Mia is designed to autonomously trundle around the user’s carpeted or hard-floored house while they’re not home, automatically avoiding obstacles […]
Pet-Entertaining Robo
360 Degree Home Tours
Ricoh Innovations Corporation, a subsidiary of Ricoh, has announced the launch of Ricoh Tours, an service that helps real estate agents uses its Theta V camera and an online portal to easily capture and create 360 tours of homes and apartments. Currently, there are over 2 million licensed real estate agents in the United States. While the number of practicing agents […]
Guessing Your Personality Based On Your Eye Movement
“The eyes … they never lie,” said noted philosopher Tony Montana in the gangster movie Scarface. While Montana chose to go down the drug-dealing and murdering route, however, had he been born 30 years later he could probably have had a promising career as a computer interface designer. At least, that’s the message we’re choosing to take away from a […]
The Next Gen Business Jet Seat
Traveling on a private business jet may be a step up even from First Class, but the seats still leave something to be desired. Claiming to be the first major change in the business aircraft seat in 30 years, Bombardier Business Aircraft’s new Nuage seat makes its debut on the company’s Global 7000 aircraft. The new handcrafted seat, available in […]
This Movable House Can Be Assembled Everywhere
On the go? Not a problem. This movable, prefab house from Swiss studio Rahbaran Hürzeler Architekten can be built and installed almost anywhere. The architects developed the project as an experiment in designing a space that can be assembled and transported easily and quickly. Every aspect of the project is designed around mobility, including the structure and floor plans. The […]
This Classroom Reconnects Children With Nature
Dramatic swooping roofs top this new timber-clad building designed by Studio Weave for Belvue School, a secondary school for children aged between 11 and 19 with moderate to severe learning difficulties. Appropriately dubbed The Wooden Classroom, the building was created to help reconnect students with nature and it opens up to an adjacent woodland recently acquired by the school to […]
Using Sunlight To Purify Water)
Access to clean water is one of the world’s most pressing problems, but a team of University at Buffalo researchers has come up with a new take on an old technology that uses sunlight to purify water. Led by associate professor of electrical engineering Qiaoqiang Gan, the team has created a device that uses black, carbon-dipped paper to produce fresh […]
Sailing To Work?
Have you ever been stuck in traffic, wishing you had a faster way to get to your destination? Then check this out: The Bubble is a flying water car that can get you out of rush hour and onto a river, sea or lake for your commute. The water taxi, made by French company SeaBubbles, is silent, emits zero emissions […]
Upcart City Your Go-To Grocery Trolley
Lugging big loads up and down stairs isn’t anybody’s idea of a good time, although stair-climbing trolleys can certainly make it a less painful experience. The UpCart City is built specifically to help urban folks with such tasks, taking a narrower form for tight stairwells and even folding up for easy storage once the job is done. The UpCart City […]
Can This Save Disaster Victims Lives?
In the aftermath of a disaster such as an earthquake, it’s of the utmost importance to quickly find live victims buried under the rubble. A new device, created by a team led by ETH Zurich’s Prof. Sotiris E. Pratsinis, could make doing so cheaper and easier than ever. Currently, rescue workers search for victims mainly using sniffer dogs or acoustic […]