Like baking sourdough bread or starting an at-home compost, canning produce has become increasingly popular during the pandemic lockdowns. And although that may be because people are finding they have more time on their hands, doing it safely and effectively makes way for healthier and cheaper food options while cutting down on food waste, especially if you have a vegetable […]
How To Can Your Own Vegetables Safely
Predicting Childhood Weight Gain
A new imaging study, led by a team from Yale University, has found a high density of cells in a certain brain region can effectively predict future weight gain in children. The research suggests an inflammatory response in the brain, triggered by poor diet, can subsequently influence future overeating. “Inflammation is known to be associated with obesity, but exactly how […]
Wearable Sensors Printed Skin Room Temperature
Flexible electronics have opened up some interesting possibilities when it comes to wearable sensors that can be applied to the skin, taking the form of tattoo-like films and sleeves that monitor various aspects of human health. Scientists at Penn State University have now developed one they say can be safely printed directly onto the skin, where it can track things […]
Proximity-Sensing Bike Light Warns Encroaching Drivers
A large percentage of automobile-bicycle collisions occur when a car hits a bike from behind. The UK-designed SureLight bicycle tail light was made with this in mind, as it actually warns motorists when they’re getting too close. Featuring a water-resistant body that’s milled from a single block of aircraft-grade sandblasted/anodized aluminum, the SureLight automatically powers up when attached to an […]
Wrist-Camera Tracks Hand Pose
When it comes to tracking the positions of a person’s moving hand, sensor-equipped gloves are often used. An experimental new system, however, utilizes a wrist-mounted camera … which doesn’t even “see” the user’s fingers. The prototype setup was designed by scientists at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, working with colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University (US), the University of St. Andrews […]
Airbus Eyes Hydrogen Powered Future
According to a recent international study, aviation is responsible for 3.5 percent of all human activities that drive climate change. Airbus is looking to a cleaner future for the commercial aircraft industries, where hydrogen powers the (local) zero-emissions aircraft of tomorrow. With today’s reveal of three designs collectively known as the ZEROe concepts, the company is looking to be at […]
Soybean Oil-Coated Could Be A Green Alternative To Plastic Material
In order to keep water from evaporating from the soil, farmers will often cover the ground around their crop plants with sheets of polyethylene plastic. There could soon be a more eco-friendly alternative, though, in the form of soybean oil-coated sand. When most people hear the word “mulch,” they think of organic material such as bark chips or dead leaves. […]
Rotterdam’s New Art Depot
The Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the first publicly accessible art depot in the world, has just completed construction in Rotterdam’s Museumpark. Designed by MVRDV, the bowl-shaped building draws the eye with its 6,609 square meters of exterior glass subdivided into 1,664 mirrored panels that reflect the surroundings and help blend the 15,000-square-meter building into the leafy park. In addition to […]
Inflatable Electric Scooter
It was just this May that we heard about Poimo, an experimental inflatable electric scooter developed at Tokyo University. Well, its designers have now unveiled a custom-fit version that would be made for each user, based on photos that they provide. First of all, why would anyone want an inflatable scooter? Well, as is the case with a lot of […]
Products From Mushroom Leather
Adidas, Stella McCartney, Lululemon and Gucci‘s parent company Kering have teamed up to invest in a novel material called Mylo, which is grown from mycelium but rivals the look and feel of animal leather. As part of a newly established business consortium, the brands have each agreed to spend seven-figure sums to help level up the production capabilities of Mylo’s […]