Maintaining good personal hygiene is always important to reduce the risk of catching infectious diseases, but in the midst of a global pandemic it is downright vital. Washing your hands may be pretty easy when at home, but as lockdowns around the world ease and people venture out more, keeping hands clean becomes much more difficult. That’s where the Go.C […]
Wearable Hand Sanitiser
Electronically Charged Gel
Japanese researcher Homei Miyashita has developed a lickable device that uses five gel nodules made of dissolved electrolytes to replicate different food tastes without the user having to ingest anything. The gadget uses five gels made of dissolved electrolytes that, when electrically charged, provide controlled amounts of each of the five basic tastes to deliver a combination of tastes to […]
Abandoned Tanks Turns Into Art Museum
On the banks of Shanghai’s Huangpu River, Beijing-based practice OPEN Architecture has transformed five giant aviation fuel tanks into Tank Shanghai, a new contemporary art museum and open park. Developed over six years, the adaptive reuse project not only creates a new cultural asset for the city, but also helps reconnect residents to the waterfront. Located on an industrial site, the five […]
Is a Career in Data Science the Stepping Stone to Being the CEO?
Data scientists have many career opportunities. They could even be a CEO someday. One of the reasons they have so many opportunities is their breadth of skills. There are a lot of skills that data scientists need to learn. These include knowing how to create a docker registry and use Hadoop. Some of these skills could be invaluable in earning […]
Project Blu Transforms Plastic To Sustainable Pets Products
Project Blu is a U.K.-based startup company that is creating sustainable pet products made from recycled materials such as plastic, textiles and leather. Each Project Blu product is made using anywhere between 1 and 300 plastic bottles, and each sale comes with a company pledge to clean yet another pound of plastic from oceans and coastlines through its partnership with […]
Carbon Footprint Labelling
In a trailblazing move, Quorn, the meatless food manufacturer headquartered in the U.K., is now leveraging carbon labeling on more than half its product line. Carbon labeling delineates where greenhouse gas emissions are associated with production, manufacture, distribution and transport of a particular consumer product as it is brought to market. The carbon label serves to inform consumers of an […]
Sustainable Housing In Respond To COVID 19
For those lucky enough to keep their jobs during the global pandemic, a large portion have been working from home — a privilege that could become a permanent way of life for many. In response to how COVID-19 continues to reshape our lives, Paris-based architecture firm Studio BELEM has proposed Aula Modula, a conceptual live/work urban housing scheme that emphasizes […]
Reusable Water Bottle & Cup
Coffee is a popular start to the day for millions of people. There’s nothing quite like the scent of coffee wafting through the air and that first sip to get you started on the right foot. But an estimated 3 billion paper cups end up in the landfills each year — cups that mostly can’t be recycled due to the […]
Highly Sensitive Wearable Uses Light For Detection
Stick-on strain sensors that can accurately measure the flexion of joints, big and small, have turned out hard to make. Piezoresistive devices tend to have a delayed response and are not stable in the long-run, while capacitive sensors are not very sensitive and nearby electromagnetic fields tend to interfere with them. Now researchers at South Korea’s KAIST institute of technology […]
Seattle Permanently Closes 20 Miles Of Street
Seattle recently made bold moves to put pedestrians and cyclists first as the pandemic-induced stay-at-home order creates a new normal. Up to 20 miles of roadways in the “Stay Healthy Streets” program shall remain permanently closed to nonessential through traffic to encourage people to exercise safely while social distancing. Environmentalists are praising the move because curtailing vehicular traffic means a reduction in carbon […]