We’re not the only ones excited by the oncoming of spring. Mosquitoes are gearing up to enjoy the refreshments that you are unwillingly about to supply. Don’t be the host of their festivities. Wear this Super Shield watch band and repel those nasty bugs. There are few things that can ruin a backyard barbecue faster than those annoying buzzing insects, all lying in wait, […]
Ultrasonic Mosquito Band
“Wearable Vehicle”
Munich-based designer Andrea Mocellin has presented his latest personal mobility device. The Exo-Line is an exoskeleton-inspired, battery-powered wearable vehicle you can lower yourself onto chest-first for a “physically engaging riding experience.” Some would argue there’s not nearly enough going on in the wearable vehicle space. Perhaps not many, if anything’s to be gleaned from the echoing silence that greeted this Hungarian […]
Helping Blind Users To Unlock Phone
Entering passcodes on smartphones can be difficult for the blind, as they can’t see the screen, nor can they tell if someone else is peeking at it. The OneButtonPIN app is designed to help, by utilizing vibrations instead of visuals. Created by scientists at Canada’s University of Waterloo and New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology, the prototype app is intended […]
Fruit Waste Into Water Purifying Material
Solar stills provide a clever and simple means of purifying dirty or salty water, but they work at a rather slow rate. A new material has been shown to boost their performance, and it’s made from fruit waste which would otherwise be discarded. In its most basic form, a conventional solar still consists of a basin of undrinkable water that […]
Desktop Hand Warmer
Folks who spend much of their home-working time tapping away at a keyboard, and also suffer from cold hands, can find keeping their digits toasty during winter months something of an expensive problem. Danish startup Varme has sought to address such issues with a power-sipping desktop hand warmer. The Varme hand heater is the brainchild of engineer Søren Abildgaard and […]
Bang & Olufsen Future Proof Houses
Danish luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen has announced that its high-style Beosound A9 has moved into its fifth generation, and the shapely 360-degree-sound Beosound 2 grows into its third iteration. The company is also aiming for usage longevity thanks to a future-proofing module installed in each wireless home speaker. “Today, we are celebrating that we are future-proofing two of our most popular home […]
Lufthansa Is Overhauling Its Long Haul Flights
German airline Lufthansa is reinventing the long-haul international travel experience with a dramatic makeover to its new fleet. The new Allegris Business Class will see seven different category options offered for the first time, in addition to being jammed-packed with high-tech, comfort, privacy, and style. Lufthansa is contributing an epic 2.5 billion Euros (US$2.67 billion) into the new fleet over […]
China’s World Largest Container Ship
The China State Shipbuilding Corporation has delivered its MSC Tessa megaship to the Mediterranean Shipping Company. With a deck area of about four football fields, it’s capable of loading up to 24,116 TEU containers at a time, stacked up to 26 deep. At 399.99 m (1,312.3 ft) long and 61.5 m (202 ft) wide, the MSC Tessa can handle more […]
Reversible Insoles Repurpose For Cooling
Heated insoles we’ve looked at previously generally use batteries to create electrical heat for warming up icy toes. French company Solecooler has a different idea. It bypasses the electrical hardware and gets its power straight from the source: the feet themselves. Its insoles use mechanical energy from basic stepping motions to drive integrated heating and cooling elements. The reversible two-sided design means […]
Automatic Weed Pulling Tractor
Nobody likes the idea of herbicides in their veggies, yet hiring workers to pick weeds by hand can be prohibitively expensive for farmers. The Vulcan farm implement offers an alternative, as it automatically spots and yanks out weeds while leaving crop plants alone. Developed by MIT spinoff ag-tech company FarmWise, the Vulcan is a wheeled device that is towed through […]