When a car crashes into a roadside object at an intersection, chances are pretty high that object will be a traffic light pole. If it’s a new energy-absorbing pole, however, the likelihood of injury or even death may be significantly reduced. Traditional street light poles are relatively rigid and unyielding, so collisions with them can be quite nasty for the […]
Impact Absorbing Traffic Lights
Maintaining Employees During the Great Resignation
Thanks to Covid-19 and the reevaluation of the workforce, it’s more or less a buyer’s market… if buyers are the workers and sellers are companies. The Great Resignation forced employees to reconsider their work-life balance and several left their jobs in search of something better. In many cases, it’s more expensive to hire a new employee and start training from […]
How to invest in US stocks from Asia – A beginners guide?
The US stock market has been the leading equity market in the world. Thrilled investors are at their opportunities to grow wealth by investing money in profitable, established companies through American stock exchanges. With this being said, it is also not surprising that there are hundreds of thousands of Americans working abroad for international businesses and corporations. Investing in stocks […]
AI Assistant Teaches Military Pilots
DARPA has selected Northrop Grumman and the University of Central Florida to develop a prototype augmented reality headset embedded with an AI assistant to help train rotorcraft pilots to deal with unexpected tasks and emergencies. One of the challenges of being a military pilot is that the job requires a lot of multitasking and a very high level of continuous […]
Sunlight With Salt Water Makes An Electricity Free Cooling System
There are many parts of the world which lack infrastructure, but that get a lot of sunlight … which makes buildings uncomfortably hot. A new system could help, as it uses a combination of sunlight and salt water – but no electricity – to produce a cooling effect. Currently being developed at Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and […]
Buffalo Cart
Cargo wagons certainly make the hauling of loads easier, although particularly heavy wagonloads can still be difficult to pull. The Buffalo Cart was designed with such tasks in mind, and it features its own electric motor. Currently the subject of a Kickstarter campaign, the Texas-made Buffalo Cart is being offered in four models. These include a fairly traditional Radio-Flyer-like wagon, […]
Caffeine Reducing Cholesterol
Your morning vice might not be that guilty a pleasure after all: coffee seems to have a range of health benefits, but exactly how it affects the body to produce these results remains unknown. A new study has identified specific proteins that caffeine works on, which help the liver remove bad cholesterol from the bloodstream and protect against cardiovascular disease. […]
The Leaf in Seoul
Heatherwick Studio has shown a growing interest in waterfront parks in recent years. It has already completed the Little Island in New York City’s Hudson River, while The Cove in San Francisco is due to be finished in 2026. The high-profile British firm has now proposed yet another similar project in the form of a greenery-filled park/pier on a river in Seoul, South Korea. […]
Promising New Drug Targets Metabolic Disease
A new preclinical study has demonstrated how an experimental drug can treat type 2 diabetes by increasing the expression of a recently discovered protein found to influence insulin signaling in cells. Across several mouse studies, the research shows the novel compound improved aspects of metabolic syndrome associated with diabetes. In the early 2000s, a protein dubbed SWELL1 was identified and […]
Recognising Silent Speech
If you were in a business meeting or a quiet library, it wouldn’t really be appropriate if you suddenly blurted out “Siri, check email.” That’s where the Speechin necklace is designed to come in, as it recognizes silent speech. The experimental device is being developed by Cornell University’s Asst. Prof. Cheng Zhang and doctoral student Ruidong Zhang. It builds upon […]