If you own multiple dogs and/or cats, then you may be familiar with the problem of one animal “stealing” food from another’s bowl. Italian artificial intelligence firm Volta has set out to keep that from happening, with its pet-recognizing Mookkie. Currently being showcased at CES 2019, Mookkie features a removable magnetically-mounted bowl, along with a front-facing wide-angle camera. As long […]
Preventing Food Theft For Pets?
Measuring Skin’s PH Levels
It was just a couple of months ago that L’Oréal announced My Skin Track UV, a wearable battery-free device that measures its user’s ultraviolet light exposure. Well, the company has now unveiled My Skin Track pH, a wearable that monitors the pH levels of its user’s skin. According to L’Oréal, pH imbalances in the skin can produce inflammatory responses, which […]
Clean Drinking Water From The Car?
If you get thirsty while driving, you may soon be able to drink water generated by a system that’s built right into your car. The technology could reportedly also provide water for the onsite rinsing of dirty work equipment, or for keeping automotive sensors and engine parts clean. Announced this week at CES 2019, the Watergen Automotive AWG system starts […]
Tomato “Scent” Can Protect Crops
Tomatoes are certainly hardy plants – this is partly due to a compound which they emit, known as hexenyl butyrate (HB). Spanish scientists have now found that a spray of synthetic HB helps various crop plants to withstand both drought and bacterial infections. In a natural process called transpiration, water within a plant evaporates through tiny pores known as stomata, […]
Smart Pet Treadmill
Most dogs are lucky enough to get a regular walk in the great outdoors, but cats are usually left at home. Looking like a giant hamster wheel, the Little Cat is an app-driven machine designed to give our feline friends some much-needed exercise – although whether they’d actually use it remains to be seen. The Little Cat is far from […]
Wireless Blood Flow Sensor
When someone has had blood vessel surgery, it’s important for doctors to check that the vessel doesn’t become blocked as it heals. Such blockages could someday be detected earlier and more easily than ever, thanks to an experimental new biodegradable blood flow sensor. Developed at California’s Stanford University, the implantable device takes the form of a capacitive strip that’s wrapped […]
Modular Space Vehicle
Going fully electric and autonomous can beautifully liberate the architecture of vehicles. It allows the cabin or cargo hold to be completely separate from the drivetrain, and it opens up the potential for a fully modular transporter like Panasonic’s SPACe_C, unveiled at CES. With no complex mechanical steering and transmission inputs needed to interface between the top and bottom layers, […]
Measures Your Grip Strength
You may not give your grip strength much thought, but it’s important for many daily tasks, and for lessening the chances of developing repetitive strain injury. A new “smart” squeezable stress ball is intended to help you build that strength – and the device is known as Squegg. Featuring a soft silicone rubber body, Squegg’s onboard electronics include pressure sensors […]
Autonomous Robot Dogs Parcel Delivery
German automotive company Continental wants to use a system of autonomous vans packed with dog-like four-legged robots to deliver packages. The company revealed its vision for the future of goods and parcel delivery this week at tech show CES in Las Vegas, where it held a press conference with a prototype of one of the robots on stage. The concept […]
Gastronomic Tourism
The World Tourism Organisation and Basque Culinary Center (BCC), have launched a pioneering initiative for the gastronomic tourism sector, with a global call for startups or companies, mature or emerging, technological and non-technological, with innovative ideas capable of revolutionising and integrating gastronomy in tourism and inspiring tourists with new ways and reasons to travel The gastronomic tourism sector is moving […]