Everyone has different temperature preferences. Stop battling your spouse at the thermostat and keep your space at your personal favorite temp with Evapolar 2: Smart Personal Air Conditioner. Though it typically retails for $269, this portable air conditioner is available now for just $199. EvaSmart 2 is an intelligent personal air conditioner that combines the functionality of a humidifier and […]
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Net Zero “Eco-Village”
When I hear the term “eco-village,” I picture a bunch of green-minded people living zero-waste lifestyles on a sunny commune, trading dried beans for bamboo toothbrushes. (TBH, I’d love to move there for a few months.) But soon, Baltimoreans will have an eco-village of their own — albeit, a little more modern than the one I dream about. As reported by […]
What is Vegan Leather?
Vegan leather may sound like an oxymoron because, well, it is an oxymoron. So what even is vegan leather — besides being an ethical, sustainable, and cruelty-free alternative to traditional leather!? Well, as you probably already suspected: It isn’t leather at all! Vegan leather has a couple of different names — you may have heard of “artificial leather” or “synthetic leather” […]
Suction Cup Standing Desk
Several years ago, thanks to the claimed health benefits of standing desks, quite a few startup companies were making the things. Now, a group of Chicago-based entrepreneurs have come out with their own unique take on the technology, in the form of the successfully-Kickstarted DeskView. Putting it simply, DeskView is a small desktop that can quickly be attached to a […]
Building Better Bridges: The Art of Maintaining Business Relationships
It’s no secret that most successful people in business are able to grow their careers quicker because they are able to work with other people. A good example can come in the form of how Apple was founded by both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who each had completely different skill sets yet were able to make a collective effort […]
Turning Plastic Waste Into Jet Fuel
Commonly used to make a wide variety of items, low-density polyethylene can be recycled into new plastic, but there’s much more waste than recycling facilities can currently handle. With that in mind, scientists have now devised a method of converting the material into something else – jet fuel. Led by Assoc. Prof. Hanwu Lei, a team at Washington State University […]
All In One Lightweight Tent
Two years after the first RhinoWolf delivered a fascinating lightweight tent system that could merge together single units into a large, tunnel-like tent community, we now find the RhinoWolf 2.0 – a new, improved model with a few small changes inspired by feedback from the first edition. The strength of the original RhinoWolf, presented back in 2017, was perhaps its […]
Nuuly A Clothing Rental Subscription
If you’ve bought more boho-chic fast fashion than you’d like to admit over the last decade or two, you’ll soon be able to acquire even more — via rental. Urban Outfitters Inc., also known as URBN, is rolling out a clothing rental service called Nuuly. The new, U.S.-based platform will offer clothes from its three stores — Urban Outfitters, Free People, […]
Digital Cameras As Side Mirrors
Those with an eye for detail may have noticed the side mirrors on Honda’s upcoming e, or lack thereof. Preview images and the early concept shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2017 indicated that it would use cameras mounted to the outside as virtual side mirrors, and the company has now confirmed this will come as standard when the […]
Identify Objects By Touch
MIT has developed an inexpensive sensor glove designed to enable artificial intelligence to figure out how humans identify objects by touch. Called the Scalable TActile Glove (STAG), it uses 550 tiny pressure sensors to generate patterns that could be used to create improved robotic manipulators and prosthetic hands. If you’ve ever fumbled in the dark for your glasses or your […]