Scientists at Australia’s Deakin University have come up with a potential new way to reclaim some of the tremendous waste generated by the fashion industry. The team has developed a method that reduces discarded denim to the building blocks for artificial cartilage, something that, with further development, could become an advanced tool for performing joint reconstructions in humans. The work […]
Old Jeans As Artificial Bone Cartilage?
Housecraft, a Fun AR App for Laying Out Furniture
Perfectly plan your future home with your phone! Housecraft uses your device’s camera and the power of augmented reality to let you place fully rendered 3D models anywhere in your world. Intuitive Interface. It’s never been easier to carefully position a piece of furniture in a room. No dollys required. Precise Measurements. Feel exactly how big objects are and how they’ll fit […]
Turning Bad Fat Into Good Fat
There’s good fat, and there’s bad fat – although we mostly only hear about the latter. Finding ways to decrease levels of bad (white) fat and increase good (brown) fat could help us lose weight and avoid obesity-related illness, and now researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a transplant method, where white fat is removed from the body, cultivated in […]
Artificial Gills?
If global warming causes catastrophic flooding that inundates most of the world’s coastal urban areas by the end of the century, how will we cope? Biomimicry designer and material scientist Jun Kamei at the Royal College of Art’s answer is Amphibio – a sort of lightweight 3D-printed vest made out of a polymer that acts as both an artificial gill […]
Rubik’s Cube In The Digital Age
Hungarian inventor Erno Rubik’s famous puzzle cube has been around for 44 years now, but never like this. The GoCube is a Bluetooth-connected Rubik’s Cube dripping with sensors that teaches you how to navigate its 43 quintillion permutations and lets you battle other cubers online. If you’re anything like me, you’ve played with Rubik’s Cubes scores of times in your […]
Herding Birds Away
Birds can cause a surprising amount of headaches for airplanes. Perhaps the most famous recent example of this was the 2009 “Miracle on the Hudson” incident, when pilots were forced to land on the Hudson River after U.S. Airways flight 1549 was struck by a flock of geese after takeoff. Engineers at the California Institute of Technology recently turned to […]
360-Degree Body Scanning Mirror
San Francisco’s Naked Labs has started shipping its 3D-scanning smart mirror with rotating scale. Connected to a mobile app, the Naked scales build 3D models of your body, then track them through your hypothetical healthy transformation. The Naked system consists of three pieces. The first is a smart mirror, with three embedded Intel RealSense depth sensors capable of scanning objects […]
Cooling Pillows For People Who Sweat A lot
The warm-blooded among us know that kicking the covers off isn’t always enough to keep cool when you’re trying to sleep. Even with modern air conditioning, the higher ambient temperatures and humidity that come with summer can make your nightly rest a sweatier ordeal than it should be. Your head can get especially hot at night due to contact with […]
Can Your Mac Be Converted Into A Windows 10 Machine Using This?
A new prototype USB stick called the SuperSpeedBlazer is claimed to turn a Mac in to a Windows 10 machine capable of running the latest games. The device is claimed to boot Windows in around 10 seconds, which runs natively on the Mac – rather than inside a less efficient virtual machine as is the case with a software alternative […]
Getty Images AI Service
As newsrooms churn out stories quicker than ever, photo editors are tasked with putting in the final touches without much hesitation. To meet the content standards of modern audiences, and the pace of the content creators, Getty Images is developing an Artificial Intelligence that will present the most applicable images by simply scanning the textno longer are strenuous searches required. […]