Indoor Gardening Device

LG will show its first foray into indoor gardening appliances at CES 2020. The company has leveraged its expertise in home appliances in designing the new device, which sports more than a passing resemblance to a thin, tall fridge and is intended to give urban dwellers without a backyard, or even a balcony, the ability to raise their own crops […]

World’s Largest 3D Printed Building In Dubai

3D printing specialist Apis Cor has completed what it calls the world’s largest 3D-printed building. Located in Dubai, the basic structure of the administrative building was constructed using just one 3D printer, though involvement of human builders was significant. The two-story administrative building measures 9.5 m (31 ft) in height and has a total floorspace of 640 sq m (roughly […]

Testing Flouride With Ease

Although small amounts of fluoride in drinking water may help to strengthen teeth and bones, too much can be dangerous, potentially causing a disease known as skeletal fluorosis. With that in mind, a simple new test has been designed to determine if fluoride levels are too high. Of course, it is already possible to measure fluoride levels in water. Doing […]

Toothpaste Tablet

In order to combat the hundreds of millions of empty toothpaste tubes that are destined for landfill across the world each year, Canadian entrepreneurs Mike Medicoff and Damien Vince have created a toothpaste that comes in the form of a tablet. Dubbed Change Toothpaste, this innovative hygiene product is a creative solution to using traditional toothpaste tubes made with several […]

Caruso All-In-One Fills The Room

Germany’s T+A has announced the upcoming release of its latest Caruso all-in-one music system. Built for modern audiophiles, the third generation compact unit is said to generate “a phenomenally well-balanced, natural and clear sound image in the whole listening area.” The Caruso measures 11.4 x 11.4 x 10.6 inches (29 x 29 x 27 cm) and tips the scales at […]

Solar Powered Headphones

Headphones with no wires offer music-lovers a new kind of freedom, but the reality is they require an onboard power source that inevitably needs recharging. Audio giant JBL is putting forward a possible solution to this dilemma via crowdfunding platform Indiegogo, where it is canvassing interest for a new set of solar-powered headphones that promise “virtually unlimited” playtime. Just a […]

Using Drones To Plant Trees 

We looked at the concept of forest regeneration using drones back in 2016 with the Droneseedinitiative, now a team of Canadian science and engineering graduates is pitching a dream to plant a billion trees by 2028 using drones. The project is dubbed Flash Forest and combines the use of drones with specially-designed pods and an accelerated seed germination process. According […]

Self-Healing Batteries

In a quest for safer lithium-ion batteries, a team of engineers at the University of Illinois (UI) has come up with a solid polymer-based electrolyte that can not only heal itself, but is recyclable without the need for high temperatures or strong acids. By using special cross-linked polymers, the new electrolyte gets stiffer under heat rather than breaking down. Lithium-ion […]

Battery Free Sensor

We’ve recently seen a number of battery-free implantable biosensors, that are activated by the handheld device that reads them. Scientists have now created another such sensor, that’s smaller than any that have come before. Designed to continuously monitor various bodily processes, externally-powered biosensors are not only smaller than their battery-packing counterparts, but they also don’t have to be surgically retrieved […]