If cost savings and convenience aren’t enough to bolster the argument in favor of using rechargeable batteries, the environmental impact of discarded single-use, non-rechargeable alkaline batteries is the topper. According to EPA statistics, Americans throw away more than 86,000 tons of alkaline batteries each year. That’s enough to circle the globe more than six times with the batteries placed end-to-end. […]
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Seedo AI Driven Self Growing Box
The website for Seedo isn’t too far off from something you might have seen at the Home Depot. Their main product is a hermetically sealed grow box controlled and managed by artificial intelligence, employing machine learning technology, computer vision algorithms, and wholly enclosed systems including advanced lighting systems to nurture plants like herbs, flowers, or vegetables. I moved to California […]
Inside Samsung’s Note 10 Strategy
Galaxy Note devotees, your loyalty has been rewarded. After sticking with the range, even in the face of adversity, Samsung has delivered to you the ultimate Note phone yet — the Galaxy Note 10. It has taken a while, but with the Note 10, the series has regained its identity after languishing as just another big-screen smartphone in a sea […]
Ski Masks Play Music
One of the most dangerous parts of skiing or snowboarding while listening to your favorite tunes is the fact that you have absolutely no chance of hearing the outside world when you’re flying down the slopes. It’s important to be able to hear other people around you, lest you be pounded into the snow by a careening teen. That’s where […]
How to Start an Online Store (5 Easy Steps)
Starting an online store can be an exciting, frightening, and liberating experience all rolled into one. With endless opportunities limited only by your imagination, being a business owner is truly one of the most rewarding experiences life has to offer. If you’re thinking of starting an online store, here are five easy steps to follow to ensure you’re covered legally, […]
Turning Household Fats Into Soap
Northumbria University graduate Danielle Coffey has designed a device that transforms oils and fats leftover from cooking into soap, to prevent them from polluting household water systems. Sápu, which is Icelandic for “soap”, is a kitchen product that aims to encourage homeowners to collect and repurpose their own fat, oil and grease (FOG) waste from cooking by turning it into […]
Bulletproof Backpacks For Kids
Children going to school or public places should be given bulletproof backpacks, the CEO of self-defence brand Guard Dog has told Dezeen. Yasir Sheikh said parents should consider buying the products in the wake of the shootings in El Paso and Dayton last week, in which a total of 31 people died. “We don’t necessarily like when parents and children […]
Smaller, Cheaper & Sharper Lenses
One of the oldest problems in optics has been solved. Rafael Gonzalez from Mexico’s Tecnologico de Monterrey has come up with an almost comically dense equation that can be used to almost completely eliminate spherical aberration in optical lenses, and the effects could be widespread. Camera lenses are insanely complex and extraordinarily precise devices, and one of the reasons for […]
Seaweed For Couture Clothing
Textile design graduate Jasmine Linington establishes seaweed as a high-end fashion material with her collection of nature-derived couture garments. In a bid to address the environmental impact of the fashion and textile industry, the Edinburgh College of Art MFA student looked to the Scottish shores for more sustainable materials. Every element of Linington’s Seaweed Girl clothing line is made using […]
Uball Ultimate Basketball Hoop Set
People have been casually playing football, soccer and ultimate frisbee on the beach and at picnics for decades, but basketball? Not so much. Now that’s about to get a lot easier with Uball, a portable, easy-to-set-up hoop and backboard that even has its own unique game rules. Like so many great, deceptively simple inventions, Uball was born out of a […]