VR Simulation Lets People Experiences Visual Diseases

Toyota, the auto company, has been investing resources into using virtual reality to help it build cars, design safety systems, and educate the public about safe driving habits. Its Swedish division has just unveiled a new simulation that can reproduce how people with a variety of visual conditions perceive the world around them. The simulation takes place on a soccer […]

ElectricMountain Cart For The Disabled

Jack Skopinski’s rivet-packing electric trikes and four-wheelers like to tilt. It’s become something of a signature for EV4 machines over the years. But now the Polish engineer has created an off-road electric trail hugger that doesn’t sport a tilting mechanism. The EV4 Mountain Cart is designed to allow disabled riders to cleanly and quietly zip down dirt tracks, up grassy […]

A Sit Down Rideshare Scooter

It seems like everywhere you look in a big city, there’s someone zipping along on an electric scooter. Many of these will be temporary hires rather than rider owned, and most – if not all – will be stand-up models. OjO and Austin Commuter Scooter have teamed up to offer Austin commuters a sit down alternative. The fleets of ridesharing […]

New Design Direction For Aston Martin

Aston Martin is carving new territory with a trail-ready, electric SUV called the Lagonda All-Terrain Concept, unveiled in Geneva. The concept sport utility is a “first glimpse” at a production model SUV from Aston Martin, slated for a 2022 release. It builds on the Lagonda Vision Concept shown last year. The Aston Martin Lagonda All-Terrain Concept hints at the design […]

RevoKits Converts Any Bike Into An E-Bike

Whether you’re cycling to the office and don’t want to arrive too sweaty and out of puff, or you just need some help getting up a steep hill, e-bikes can be a great way to get around. For many though, buying a brand new bicycle when you already have a perfectly good one just doesn’t make sense. That’s where add-ons […]

Hand Cranked Wheelchair

According to researchers from Austria’s Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology), propelling conventional wheelchairs puts users’ joints in unnatural and potentially injury-causing positions. They’ve developed what is claimed to be a more ergonomic alternative, in the form of a hand-cranked wheelchair. Created by a team led by Prof. Margit Gföhler, the new prototype certainly isn’t the first wheelchair to […]

Will Electric Bandage Really Work?

Electrical bandages, ones that allow electric current to make contact with the wound, have been known for a while to be very effective at speeding up healing. Over the past decade there’s been a great deal of technological development in this field, but the mechanism behind why these “electroceuticals” really work has been poorly understood. Now researchers at Ohio State […]

Motion Powered Sensor To Save Lives

Not only do firefighters have dangerous jobs, but they often work in dark, smoke-filled environments where they’d be difficult to find if they ran into trouble. A new motion-powered wearable sensor could make all the difference in such situations. Developed by an international team of scientists, the inexpensive button-battery-sized device is largely made up of a new carbon aerogel nanocomposite. […]

Product Tags To Thwart Counterfeits

It seems that the more technology progresses, the easier it becomes to produce convincing counterfeit goods. Scientists at the University of Copenhagen are fighting back, however, with product tags that they claim cannot be replicated – even by an item’s legitimate manufacturer. Known as the physical unclonable functions (PUFs) system, the technology was developed by researchers Riikka Arppe-Tabbara, Mohammad Tabbara […]

10 Things You Need to Start a New Restaurant

Opening a new restaurant isn’t cheap. You’ll need tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment in both the front and the back of the house. From refrigerators and walk-in freezers to ranges, ovens, small appliances, bar equipment, uniforms and more, here’s what you need to start a new restaurant. 1) Food Storage Appliances Industrial-grade refrigerators and freezers are a […]