Smart Waste Bin

French company Uzer’s ‘Eugene’ is a waste bin with a smart twist. One of the biggest barriers stopping people from recycling, tragically enough, is that many people simply don’t know what can be recycled and what should be thrown into the trash. Eugene is able to recognize the packaging for nearly any product, and it can tell its owner which […]

Inspirational Spaces for Innovative Minds: How to Encourage Creativity in the Workplace

Creativity has never been so positively embraced. The defining quality of artists, poets, musicians, and writers throughout the ages, it is only recently that employers have begun to understand its importance in the cut-throat world of business. Yes, it often involves a lot of flounce and frill, but creativity is the closest thing to individuality, and in a world where […]

Forest Wool Furniture

Pine trees are the world’s main source of timber and every year 600 million pine trees are cut down in the EU alone. Latvian designer Tamara Orjola is using the parts of the tree that usually just get tossed aside while harvesting wood. Orjola creates biodegradable textiles, stools and carpets made of nothing but pine needles. Her project, ‘Forest Wool’, […]

Driverless Buses

Singapore will trial a pair of driverless buses. No, not micro buses, nor “Ollis” — full-sized buses, measuring 12 meters (40 feet) long. The vehicles will operate in the Jurong West region of Singapore, where the island’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is situated. The buses will ferry up to 80 people between NTU and the neighboring “eco-business” hub CleanTech Park […]

How to Make Your Office Millennial Friendly in Three Easy Steps

Millennials are not known for being a quiet bunch. The children of revolution and rapid social change, eighties, nineties, and noughties babies are outspoken, liberal, creative, and free-thinking, and the most successful companies have learnt to love them for these qualities. They inject a refreshing vibe into the businesses that social media and the internet culture have left floundering, bringing […]

How to Pick a Safe and Secure Money Transfer Service

  It is now possible to send money to the Philippines in minutes,or to transfer money to other far off locales while sipping coffee in your pajamas. But staying safe and secure while doing so has become an increasing concern.Increasingly, the number of total losses from financial fraud continues to grow. Money transfers are an area where one can easily […]

Smart Baby Bed

After over four years of development, Yves Behar and Dr. Harvey Karp have successfully created the first smart baby bed that helps babies sleep faster and more safely. This also means happier, more rested parents. Inspired by the natural rocking phenomenon that babies feel in the womb, the SNOO baby bed rocks a baby to sleep using the same rhythms. […]

Wallpaper Solar Cells

Imagine being able to tape thin, affordable solar cells anywhere: the top of a trailer, the side of a building, or the roof of your car. Sunflare‘s new solar technology could make that possible. The Los Angeles-based startup has developed solar cells just a few micrometers thick that “can be secured to any surface with a special double-sided tape,” according […]

New Face of Money Management

The ways people exchange money has changed significantly over the last couple of decades. Companies and consumers wrote over 40 billion checks in 2000. In 2012, they only wrote 20 billion checks. It only took 12 years for check writing to decrease by 50 percent. It makes sense that people would abandon checks for faster, more secure payment options. Just […]