Styrofoam is incredibly cheap and provides many uses like holding hot drinks and packing larger electronics for shipment. However, the convenience is costly when it comes to the environment, and it’s an incredible nightmare when it comes to recycling it. A new option called “nanowood” hopes to provide benefits similar to styrofoam, with the plus of being biodegradable. For the […]
Have We Finally Found An Alternative To Styrofoam?
World’s Largest Hanging Garden
French art collective Les Machines de L’ile is embarking on plans to build the world’s largest hanging garden – which will be on the scale of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The Nantes-based design team is currently working on what they are calling The Heron’s Tree – a massive interactive garden that will span more than 160 feet in diameter and 114 feet high. […]
The Best Vlogging Camera?
With more and more people getting into video blogging, it’s only natural that we should be seeing an increasing number of cameras designed specifically for vlogging. One of the latest and perhaps best-equipped, the Idolcam will soon be the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. The Idolcam shoots at a maximum resolution of 4K/30fps, and features an integrated 3-axis motorized gimbal to help […]
Drone Tracking
DRONE COUNTRY Residents of Switzerland should be prepared to see more drones in the sky, as the country begins to move forward with plans to integrated unmanned drones into their air traffic management systems. The system will track drones and register operators in order to make airspace safer for the tiny vehicles. Ars Technica reports that Skyguide, a Swiss air […]
Your Robo Legal Counsel
Remember that online artificial intelligence (AI) that helped people dispute their parking tickets? Well, DoNotPay — the parking lawyer chatbot developed by Stanford University student Joshua Browder a few years ago — has since expanded its services. DoNotDay’s latest addition is retail price protection for air travel and hotel accommodations. Browder launched DoNotPay’s flight and hotel price protection service on March 6, 2018 — and just like […]
Greenery Matters For Your Health
Have you ever visited a conservatory? As you enter, warmth, humidity, and the aroma of soil greet you at the door. The feeling and smell of the air cannot be matched. I walked through my local conservatory this week and the humidity that fogged my glasses, though bothersome, was a welcome change from home. If, like me, you live in […]
EvoWheel, Transforming Your Normal Bike Into An E-Bike
Ready to give your old cruiser a swanky electric makeover? The innovative EvoWheel turns almost any old regular bike into a speedy e-bike in under 30 seconds. The brilliant design, which just launched a fund-raising campaign on Indiegogo, is an app-controlled wheel that gives regular bikes a speed boost up to 20 mph. The wheel weighs 16 pounds and comes with an application that […]
Planter Light
It’s not Object/Interface’s first foray into plantable light fixtures having launched their Babylon Light in 2016. The Hemisphere Pendant Planter, designed by Ryan Taylor, takes the idea for a new spin with a smaller size and new design. A six inch diameter dome holds plants on the top with the option of cascading down the sides as it grows. On the flip side is […]
Zos, The Wine Saver
A bottle of wine will either be finished in one night, or languish on your countertop for weeks on end — that is, if your drinking habits are anything like ours. Sure, it may not be frequent that you have an open bottle in your household for more than a few hours, when those occasions do arise, you need a decent way to ensure […]
Can Fish Scale Help To Heal Wounds?
Chances are, you can’t think of many uses for fish scales. Neither can the fisheries industry, which is why it disposes of great quantities of the things every year. According to scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, however, such scales may be able to help heal wounds in humans. The researchers started by obtaining sea bass, snakehead and tilapia scales […]