Air Speakers Pulls Apart For Surround Sound

When connected together, the five units that make up the Air by Quirky form a single cylinder speaker. But each speaker can also operate separately for surround-sound placement or multi-room streaming entertainment. Designed to fit right in with the versatile lives we lead today, the combined efforts of all five speaker units – one AirBase and four AirConnect speakers – […]

SimCam AI Nanny

Caring for a baby is a full-time job, but it’s impossible to keep an eye on your bundle of joy around the clock – or is it? SimCam Baby is a smart baby monitor that uses artificial intelligence to give parents a helping hand and keep a watchful eye on baby 24/7 – even in the dark. It wasn’t too […]

Bacteria Laden Silk Allows Plants To Thrive In High Salinity Soil 

In a move that could help feed the world’s ever-growing population, researchers at MIT have developed a silk covering that allows seeds to grow in high-salinity soils. In addition to providing protection from salty soils, the silk coatings are treated with bacteria that naturally produce a nitrogen fertilizer, enhancing the potential of the seeds to germinate and grow. The research […]

Natural Sugar For Diabetics

Sugar poses one of the most pressing health problems in the modern world – not least because it’s just so delicious. Rather than quitting sweets cold turkey, low-calorie alternatives to sucrose could make tasty treats that are at least less bad for us. And now, researchers from Tufts University have developed a more efficient method for producing one such sweetener, […]

Air Fly-Pro Turns Any Audio Jack Wireless

Twelve South has released a Bluetooth adapter called the AirFly Pro that can be plugged into old school audio sources with a 3.5 mm headphone jack to stream audio to wireless headphones and earphones. The device essentially allows you to pop in your new AirPods Pro earphones and listen to audio streamed from old car stereos, in-flight entertainment systems, or […]

Super Practical Electric Scooters 

Automakers are looking down the barrel of massive industry change, and scrambling to be early on what’s next when the transport world gets turned upside down by autonomous vehicles. They’re all working on cheap, electric last-mile commuting options, and Spanish carmaker SEAT is the latest to carve out an urban mobility division to develop cheap, clean getabouts that break the […]

Pop-Up Squaredrop Trailer 

Teardrop trailers, and their rugged, hard-angled squaredrop counterparts, are all the rage right now, but a factor limiting their appeal is that they generally sleep only two people – and forget about a bathroom. Colorado’s Into the Wild Overland solves both problems by lifting the roof and creating a roomy walk-in space with sleeping quarters for four adults, a corner […]

Can Plastics Be Made Recyclable?

Although chemicals, foods and other odorous substances are often sold in recyclable plastic containers, sometimes the smells absorbed by the plastic make it unsuitable for recycling. A new process, however, is claimed to get the stink out. Developed by Prof. Andrés Fullana and researcher Andrea Cabanes, from Spain’s University of Alicante, the technique reportedly removes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that […]

Brewery Waste Into High-Value Charcoal

According to Queen’s University Belfast, breweries in the European Union dispose of about 3.4 million tons (3.084 million tonnes) of spent barley grain every year. That could be about to change, though, as scientists at the university have created a method of converting that waste into useful charcoal. Led by Dr. Ahmed Osman, the researchers devised a process that begins […]