The research offers every week new technological inventions that can make our lives more comfortable, including engineers who work for large companies and young people looking for funding on crowdfunding platforms. Here are the new products announced in the last few days.
1) Pocket, the portfolios that you recharge your cell phone
The smartphone market has grown in recent years to an unexpected direction until a decade ago, continuing to increase the size in favor of screens increasingly large and enjoyable. The main problem they faced was that the manufacturers of battery life, which to support screens well defined and bright always had to be bigger, but not too heavy. The results are not always optimal, and often those who use a lot for business smartphone is forced to carry an emergency charger, hoping to find an outlet available at hand.
A more comfortable, however, It could be Pocket, a wallet with a powerbank, or of a emergency battery able to connect at any time to our telephone with a simple cable. The capacity is about 1300 mAh, not sufficient to hold an entire working day, but enough to cover half day in case of need, and is equipped with two cables, one microUSB and one Lightning for Apple devices. The cost is not excessive, we start from $ 69 for pre-orders and $ 100 for those who will buy it at the time of its launch in June 2016.
2) The mattress that you recommend as a rest best
One of the first things you learn for the maintenance or restoration of good health is the importance of sleep, which must be not only adequate in terms of quantity, but also and above all quality. Sleep eight hours a night can sometimes not be enough, our body needs it to get into the so-called REM in order to really “recharge” and for this reason sometimes we wake up tired and sore after several hours of sleep.
In recent years many have worked so tools can monitor the quality of our sleep but for the first time, these tools have been integrated in a mattress “smart”, able to give us information but also to help us make our restful nights. It’s called Sleep Number, was presented at CES in Las Vegas a few weeks ago and is the fruit of several years of study, after a series of prototypes unsatisfactory, led to this result.
mattress is equipped with sensors, such as a heart rate monitor, able to monitor in real time the main parameters that measure the quality of our sleep. Upon processing the data, Sleep Number provides a detailed report of how we slept last night, explaining that in phases and how long we have gone from deep sleep to light sleep. The main novelty is that this mattress has a technology called ActiveComfort, able to use the data collected to change the level of rigidity of the mattress, adapting to our needs, followed by a phase of analysis also effective help to make the best our nights. The mattress will be possible to have even pillows and supports to make the user experience more personalized. The expected price is $ 800 and will be available in the second half of 2016.
3) sensors for those without a green thumb
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The plants and flowers in our homes are an ornament to which their mind giving up, but not everyone has the ability or the perseverance to follow through with the right care the growth and maintenance of their own plants. The eternal battle against nature, however, could be simplified for the many that do not have green thumb: their rescue was born the Smart Garden, a device capable of monitoring the state of soil in which our plants.
Thanks to the information collected, Smart Garden is able to advise when is the best time for watering our plants and will be even more useful if We will indicate what kind of plants are advising us specifically how to care for it to the best. And if the commitment to treat each plant becomes difficult to maintain, you can also connect an irrigation system, so that the machine is completely delegated the task of looking after our vessel. The sensors and sprinkler work with a combination of solar cells and battery and take advantage of free Wi-Fi in our house to communicate data and gather the information needed to do their jobs.
4) The hoodie inflatable rest anywhere
We talked earlier about how important a good rest, but there are people who, for work or for pleasure are often traveling so far from his beloved and comfortable bed. On planes or trains, unless access to expensive premium services, there is not much space to try to rest for even a few hours on a long journey, so travelers make do as they can, with more imaginative solutions.
In their rescue came Hypnos, a sweatshirt apparently normal, but can turn the cap into a comfortable cushion to lean on and you can finally relax. The idea is simple but well crafted, because the fleece is aesthetically pleasing and the cap, even when inflated, does not draw attention, becoming a pillow discreet but very efficient. The sweatshirt is available in different compositions, to meet the aesthetic tastes but also to be adapted to the different seasons and is very pleased the audience, picking up on Kickstarter more than 320 thousand dollars, more than ten times the asking price of 30 thousand dollars. The first pieces will be shipped in March and the retail price will start from $ 69.
5) The OLED screen that rolls up like a newspaper
The producers of televisions and screens are in constant competition to bring to market the latest idea can make more enjoyable the user experience, including SuperHD screens, curved or 3D. For some years there are rumors of a new technology to make the display pocket and easily transportable, thanks to a flexibility hitherto unthinkable. And finally the first results were presented at CES in Las Vegas.
Last year there was talk during the show, a prototype led by LG, but hidden from the public. This year, the choice to show it has led many experts to speculate that this kind of devices is almost ready for the actual marketing. The size of the display is 18 inches, but the company has already said it is working on a screen of 55 inches, with a resolution – according to the latest standards – in 4K, or four times more defined FullHD.
There are no more specific information or dates, but according to the first impressions of those who have been able to touch this device, the conditions are very good and the potential uses are many. Do nothing but wait and hope for a rapid development by LG or other rival companies, which in the past have made it clear more or less explicitly to have similar projects in the pipeline.
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