As many a fancy-refrigerator-owner will know, fingerprints tend to be highly visible on stainless steel. A new transparent coating could help, however, as it goes about reducing the appearance of prints in three ways. Actually a type of varnish, the “sol/gel nano-lacquer” is being developed by Germany’s FEW Chemicals and assessed by a team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure […]
Nano-Coating Protects Stainless Steel
Gmail’s Unsend Email Feature
The instantaneous delivery of email comes with consequences. Once you send an email, you might not be able to take it back. That could cause problems if you send a message when you aren’t ready — or send it to the wrong people. The good news is that Gmail provides a quick, effective way to unsend or recall an email […]
Furniture Incorporates Parts From Shared Bicycles
Central Saint Martins graduate Qiang Huang has created a range of unfinished furniture bases that need to be completed by adding components from discarded shared bikes. Named Bike Scavengers, Huang‘s furniture is designed to be used by an association that would encourage participants to disassemble bikes left on the street and transform the salvaged parts into usable products. The association would […]
How The Meat Industry Will Look Like In 20 Years
Over the past few years, countless plant-based meat alternatives have hit the market, and customers’ increased demand for more ethical and environmentally-friendly products are slowly starting to disrupt the meat industry. And according to a new paper, it’s predicted that 20 years from now, the market for vegan meat and lab-grown meat will actually surpass the market for animal-based meat. […]
Identifying Deep Fakes
They’re known as deepfakes – photos or videos that have been very convincingly manipulated to depict people saying or doing things that they never actually said or did. They’re potentially quite the problem, so an experimental new deep neural network has been designed to spot them. Led by Prof. Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury, a team at the University of California, Riverside […]
Making Elections More Secure
American industrial designer Tucker Viemeister has teamed up with software giant Microsoft to build an electronic voting machine that could boost security of paper ballots. Unveiled at the Aspen Security Forum yesterday, the prototype incorporates ElectionGuard, an open-source Microsoft software created to make elections more verifiable, efficient and easy to complete. The tech company launched the development kit earlier this […]
Snow Peak’s BBQ
For many meat-eaters there’s nothing quite like the taste of tender, smoky cuts, and the outdoor specialists at Snow Peak are looking to bring a little of that flavor into the wild. The company’s new Smokemeister barbecue packs the capabilities of larger smokers into a trunk-friendly package, with easy setup once at camp for meat lovers on the move. The […]
Hades A Horsepower Minimalism
The fellow who designed Confederate’s jaw-dropping Wraith and Hellcat, J.T. Nesbitt, is back with what he calls “the ultimate expression of two-wheeled minimalism.” We’re not sure we agree, but the Hades certainly slaps some new ideas down on the table. Designed around the idea of using as many parts as possible for more than one purpose, the Hades packs a […]
Brain Mimicking Chip
The human brain is still a far more powerful computer than anything it itself has created so far. It’s no wonder then that engineers have recently focused on trying to emulate the structure of the brain with artificial synapses. Now, a team of researchers has made a new artificial synapse design that works using a light-based biotechnology technique called optogenetics. […]
Google Maps For Bike Sharing Fans
More and more app-based bikesharing services are rolling into cities, but for riders, that can mean more confusion as you search through multiple apps to find nearby stations and available bikes. Aiming to smooth the way, Google Maps now tells you the location of bike stations and how many bikes are available in real-time. Even better, as you embark on […]