GrabCAD and leading modern product designers at Umbra have teamed up to
task the inventor community to create an exceptional paper towel holder.
They’re ready to reward the coolest designs with cash, gifts and a
potential long term partnership!
While today’s emphasis on all-things-celebrity seems at times all-consuming, the mashups of certain couples’ names have
entered our lexicon, dating all the way back to the ill-fated
relationship of "Bennifer" [Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez]. Others like
"Brangelina" [Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie] have stood the test of
time, while the dubbing of the would-be coupling of "Kimye" [Kim
Kardashian & Kanye West] portends a short-lived hook-up. On a much
more somber note, combining the names of Hitler and Putin – to ‘Putler’. . .
Robots might not be capable of emotion, but they can certainly fake it. Take, for example, Z-Machines, a party-robot band based out of Japan. Recently, the group collaborated with an electronic artist by the name of Squarepusher. The result? A robots’ song lamenting their lot as entertainment machine.
No one’s quite sure what causes the phantom limb effect, nor do we have an adequate medical explanation for why an amputee might experience muscle cramps or pain in a nonexistant appendage. In spite of this, one researcher in Sweden thinks he might be zeroing in on a cure…and it involves gaming.
Samsung and LG pair fitness technology with their new smartphones. In recent years, we have see the rise in fitness technology, like heart rate monitors and fitbands. Now smartphone companies are getting involved. The Samsung Galaxy S5 and LG G Flex will soon release their own fitness gadgets. By marketing fitness technology with smartphones, more people are being exposed to technology that facillitates an active lifestyle.
If you’ve ever tried a Paleo diet, or taken a course of antibiotics
after a nasty encounter with Bolivian water, you may be curious as to
what microbes live in your body, or lived until you killed them with
antibiotics. Today the founder of uBiome, a startup that allows you to discover your microbiome, was named as the leader of one of Indigogo’s hottest campaigns led by women. Jessica Richman raised $351,193 back in November for her world first citizen research campaign to sequence the human microbiome.
Welcome to Spritz, a new spin on reading. By using speed, conditioning, and optimal recognition point science, you can learn how to read up to 1000 words-per-minute. Available on the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Gear 2, will Spritz change the way we read as humans, or, will it need to wait until other technologies catch up first?
Looks like the creative class is next on the robotic chopping block: according to the folks at IBM, the best way to determine new recipes for human consumption is to use a supercomputer. The natural next step, of course, is to apply that theory to everything else – including writing.
Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins is the latest industry veteran to hop on the ‘video games as education’ bandwagon. The developer today announced the release his studio If You Can Company’s first game, IF, to iPad. It’s designed with a very simple purpose: to teach kids how to emotionally grow.
In a society obsessed with self control and self improvement, InterAxons Muse brain computer interface headband promises all the things:
tracking your emotions; tracking your thoughts; more understanding of
yourself; more self awareness; making alterations in your environment to
improve your state of mind e.g programming your ipod to put on calming
music when your brainwave headband senses you are anxious. Now rumours suggest that Google is trying to buy them.
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