The research offers every week new technological inventions that can make our lives more comfortable, including scientists working for universities or large companies and young people looking for funding on the platforms of crowdfunding . Here are the new products announced in the last few days.
1) Insect scavengers to dispose of plastics
The disposal of certain types of materials is becoming an increasingly hard to ignore, especially when it comes to materials employing tens, hundreds or even thousands of years to biodegrade. In the US alone it is estimated that are thrown about 2.5 billion cups for coffee, that make up 33 million tons of plastic that only in the US state are thrown in the trash.
A group of Stanford University scientists have discovered, however, the special skills of meal worms, living in dry and apparently can base your diet on polystyrene and other similar polymers. In the laboratory, 1000 moths have eaten between 34 and 39 milligrams of polystyrene, using a small pill that has been given to each piece daily. About half have been transformed into carbon dioxide, as happens with any other food, and in 24 hours was evacuated almost the totality of the plastic remaining as fragments biodegraded, like small rabbit droppings. There were no health problems for the moths, which are in perfect health with this diet, and it does not seem there are differences even in the feces of specimens that have followed a normal diet. Studies of these animals, in addition to their direct use, may make it clear to scientists what are the conditions that favor a rapid degradation of the plastic and which are enzymes that destroy the polymer.
2 ) The first t-shirt smart against back pain
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posture problems affect almost anyone, even more so those who spend a sedentary lifestyle , maybe forced sitting for many hours at the computer. But often we are not aware of our bad habits: just a fact incorrectly to sit or walk for cause pain, inflammation or even real damage to the spine, over the years.
To improve your posture will soon come on the market the first smart shirt , called TruPosture, which aims precisely to reduce back pain. It appears as a normal shirt, but its interior is enriched with sensors based on nanotechnology that are able to monitor at any time the movements of our spine, evaluating if there are errors of alignment. In this way it is able to correct in real time the wrong position that is assumed by the wearer, thanks to a small vibration that is released at the exact point to be corrected. Will be several ways to set before use: sitting, standing, Stretching and customized, and you can check our data with the dedicated app, directly on our smartphones.
The project is seeking funding on Indiegogo and has already reached half of the 50 thousand Euros required for its construction, but there are still two weeks, if you are interested in joining the campaign of crowdfunding you participate here.
3) The refrigerator that tells you how many beers were
The appliances are increasingly smart and able to communicate with our device to give us more information and the opportunity to interact with an increasing number of options available. The latest idea is the colossus of Budweiser beer, which has marketed a refrigerator smart , able to keep us up to date on the situation of the beers available to us: it is called Bud and-Fridge. Thanks to the app dedicated to the connection to the Wi-Fi network, and the Bud-Fridge vigil impeccably on beers in it, indicating the quantity, the current temperature and a kind of countdown to calculate how soon you will reach the optimum temperature.
In the case of children or roommates undisciplined, also warns when the box is opened and if the stock is affected, but it is also possible to enter the authorized user, that They are not reported as intruders. It also caters to an audience of sports fans, since it is able to warn with a notification shortly before the start of our favorite sporting event.
4) Machinery for ironing and folding laundry
One of the main obstacles for young people who decide to leave the family nest and go to live alone regards the laundry, but especially the later stage or fold and iron clothes clean . If now there are washers and dryers can return clothing worthy of the best professional laundry, there are no real alternatives to expensive and old iron.
For this reason, Panasonic, in partnership with SevenDreamer and Diwa House , he is working on the first machine capable of folding clothes, able to store on a shelf perfectly folded laundry, ironed and perfumed. It is a project that dates back to 2008 and should be now close to commercialization, so that it was presented a few days ago at CEATEC in Tokyo, one of the most important fairs of innovation. His name is Laundroid and does its work in two phases: the first consisting of an analysis of the head fold and the second in a mechanical work that bends the dress. The technology is very complex, because the robot must be able to fold clothes with surgical precision and without the risk of damaging them. Next year will start the preorder and in 2017 there will be a real step beta-testing , with some families who will be chosen to take this new appliance and make judgments on its effectiveness.
5) The mirror 3D revolutionizing shopping
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exclusive store in Hong Kong is experiencing in his dressing room l ‘ use a new 3D mirror that could change forever the way of shopping. The mirror is equipped with a scanner able to locate 140 points of the body of the customer, while this makes one revolution about itself through 360 degrees. With the data collected, according to the managers of the store, you can deduce very accurately the size of the client, creating a real identikit of our body. Jeanne Tan, a professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, said: “The use of this mirror will become more common with time, it serves to increase the level of service. Customers will simply indicate the leaders who are interested in without having to waste time to try many. I am convinced that they will begin to ask wherever this service. “
The only problem is due to privacy , this scanner is in fact able to play perfectly the physical shape of the client: it will likely be mandatory for retailers delete data once performed its function.
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