How Faster Internet Benefits Digital Startups

Image credit: Average Internet speeds per country, reddit In the recent years, digital startups have been disrupting traditional business models. This has been made possible by several digital companies tying in their services directly with otherwise offline or brick-and-mortar products. Take for example Uber, which has digitalized the taxi- and car-rental industry. Another example is Airbnb, which radically changed the […]

Headset That Monitors Brain Activity For Under $500

You probably associate EEG headsets with hospitals and research labs, and although the technology is invaluable within these industries, the sheer expense of headsets in the past meant that it was rare for individuals and smaller teams to have the opportunity to utilize them. Today however it’s a different story, as democratizing EEG technology was exactly what CEO Tan Le […]

OM Smart Bra

Introducing the ‘OM Bra’, the first-ever smart bra that will keep records of all the essential data for every active woman. Designed by San Francisco-based company OMsignal, the smart bra is an alternative to other wearable techs. It records down the calories burnt, and gives an assessment of your workout in real-time, letting you know when to train harder and […]

AVG Invisibility Glasses Help Protect Privacy

Developed by AVG Innovation Labs, the AVG invisibility glasses help protect your visual identity in the digital age. Through a mixture of technology and specialist materials, privacy wearables such as invisibility glasses can make it difficult for cameras or other facial recognition technologies to get a clear view of your identity. These specialist materials help maintain your privacy at the moment […]

Social Trading with wikifolio

The Internet allows anyone to connect with individual in more advanced way. One can also follow and copy trades of top investors. Traditional asset managers and mutual funds that charge quite high fees might become obsolete in the future due to social trading. wikifolio.com is Europe’s leading online platform for trading strategies by private traders and professional asset managers. Radical […]

New Wearable Technology Concepts Coming to Market

Wearable technology is all the rage, but the craze goes beyond connected eyewear such as Google Glass. Designers are creating timepieces, apparel, accessories and fitness wear that can do everything from monitor your heart rate to charge your smartphone. Here’s a look at some of the haute trends and concepts in wearable technology. Wearable Watch Huawei Band is a clean […]

Robot Designed Lamp

Atelier Robotiq, a design company based in Rotterdam, uses a combination of design software they developed and a robot that weaves in their first product, the Fiber Pattern Lamp. The software tells the robot what to weave in order to create the lightweight, 3D fiber structures that look a bit like a UFO. Using an Aerospace fiber winding technology, the […]

Bacteria For Breathable Clothing

From mechanics to textiles to 3D printing, the fashion industry has been leaning hard on collaborations with the tech world in recent years. In a new twist for the overlap between fashion and technology, a research team at MIT has developed a bio-skin fabric that is coated with highly sensitive and visibly reactive microorganisms called bacillus subtilis natto. The bacteria […]

Wearable Aircondition

Researchers at the Technical Research Centre of Finland — VTT — have developed a mass production method for wearable air conditioning technology. The system — called Alykangas — consists of microscopic channels of plastic that can be integrated into garments, and pumped with hot or cold liquid, enabling the wearer to cool down or heat up. While this technology is […]

Oxygen Capsules

There’s nothing more satisfying or more cleansing than sucking in a deep breath of fresh air. Unfortunately, clean air is increasingly hard to find. Cities, especially in quickly industrializing countries like China and India, are choking in clouds of smog and particulate. A recent scientific breakthrough provides a possible window into what life on Earth might be like if the […]