For eco-conscious travelers looking to plan their next trip, UNESCO is now offering a new platform dedicated to World Heritage and sustainable travel. Supported by the European Union and in collaboration with National Geographic, the platform features 34 selected World Heritage sites spread across 19 European Union countries. The platform aims to encourage people to travel beyond the typical tourist […]
World Heritage & Sustainable Travel
Google Targets To Help Cities Curb Carbon Emissions
Cities around the world have made ambitious targets in reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases over the last few years but now they might have a better way of monitoring their progress thanks to a new tool by Google. Coined “the Environmental Insights Explorer,” the innovative tool is a way for leaders to understand their city’s carbon emissions generated from […]
Protect Your Shoulders Today
Performing repetitive and/or strenuous tasks can be hard on a worker’s body, leading to muscle fatigue and even injury. Assistive exoskeletons are designed to help keep that from happening, with the MATE from Italian company Comau being an interesting recent example. An acronym for Muscular Aiding Tech Exoskeleton, MATE was designed in collaboration with Icelandic orthopedic company ÖSSUR and Italy’s […]
Can Alpaca’s Immune System Provide A Potential Treatment For Cancer?
Mostly known for its lustrous fleece and predilection for vigorous spitting, the humble alpaca may soon be more famous for its extraordinary immune system. A study has discovered that the animals produce unique nanobodies that could be recruited into a new treatment for cancer. Epidermal growth factor (EGF), when over expressed, is fundamentally associated with a number of cancers and […]
Real Life Ad Blockers
In a world bombarded by screens constantly blasting ads and visual noise, a team of artists and designers wondered if glasses could be created that can black out all those invasive messages. After a year of research and prototyping, the IRL Glasses are now launching on Kickstarter. In 1988, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper hit the cinema screens in the cult classic […]
All In One Turntable
Building on a successful crowdfunder last year with its Seed all-in-one turntable, Hym Originals has returned to Kickstarter to fund a turntable/Bluetooth speaker hybrid called the Duo. When not throwing out sounds from the record player, the wireless speaker can be removed from the dock and used for wireless streaming from any Bluetooth music source. It has to be said, […]
Wifi Vulnerability Can Put You In Danger
Computer scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered a security flaw that affects all Wi-Fi routers. Hackers could exploit the weakness in the transmission control protocol (TCP) and perform a web cache poisoning attack to steal passwords, login information, and other private data. Unfortunately, a fix isn’t possible, as the vulnerability stems from a 20-year-old design based on […]
Cars Can Soon Talk To Each Other
Panasonic’s Network Operations Center in Denver looks ripped straight from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel: Rows of computer workstations encircled by monitors, a wall of high-definition TVs, plush rolling chairs, call-center headsets, and urgently blinking LEDs, all soaked in surreal blue light. But they’re not tracking Soviet spies in here. Instead, the kind of guys who wear shirts […]
Volkswagen & Microsoft Teams For Connected Cars
Your next Bug might have Windows as a feature — Volkswagen and Microsoft are partnering to create cloud services for VW’s entire fleet, the companies announced on Friday, . VW anticipates that starting in 2020, more than 5 million new Volkswagen-brand vehicles per year “will be fully connected and will be part of the Internet of Things (IoT).” VW’s board of […]
Alexa Your SouChef
If you’re not already reeling from the baker’s dozen of devices and breakthroughs that Amazon unleashed on Thursday, September 20, here’s one more bulletin. SideChef, the all-in-one home cooking platform, is going to help Amazon with its new expansion into the smart kitchen by integrating with Alexa to help Echo owners cook via interactive recipes. The big news included the […]