The technological research offers every week new inventions that can make our lives easier, including engineers who work for large companies and young people looking for funding on crowdfunding platforms. Here is the news announced in recent days.
1) The lock that opens with fingerprint
The security measures installed on smartphones are now many, the best known was introduced a few years ago on the iPhone and allows you to only unlock your smartphone with your fingerprint. The same technology has been inserted into a new model called TappLock lock, so that you will forget the old and uncomfortable keys and keep safe your bicycle or your locker.
The device is built steel and is therefore almost impossible to break, but if someone would come to the bad idea to try to force it, it would be forced to desist from the sound of an alarm. You can set multiple imprints, so that the padlock is unlocked even to friends or people you trust, and the rechargeable battery promises a full three years of battery life.
The campaign launched on Indiegogo has far exceeded the required budget and November is expected to enter the market at the base price of $ 29.
2) The anti tremor spoon to Parkinson’s patients
Many highly successful inventions They are based on devices often unnecessary, which are used primarily to have fun or semplificarci, even where there would not be strictly necessary, life. In some cases, however, the engineers found ingenious solutions to give a hand to those who really need it, such as the sick, suffering great inconvenience due to diseases for which there is still no effective cure.
at CES in Las Vegas in January it was presented Gyenno, a spoon with a sophisticated stabilizer that allows to contrast the tremors of the hand of those who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, making them independent during meals. As explained in this video, Gyenno is also equipped with a fork and has a battery that can last several hours. The price is not the most affordable, $ 299, but for those suffering from this disease can really be a great help.
3) AirBar makes any touch screen
the touch technology has revolutionized the way we enjoy content on digital devices, it has changed the shape of smartphones and tablets and has created new-generation screens. Laptops, however, are almost always devoid of touch functions, often for an economical choice and sometimes not to weigh an object that is designed especially to be carried easily.
But someone can not do without this option and just for them was created AirBar, a simple bar that can be resting at the base of your notebook screen to equip it with touch technology. It works on all Windows laptops, Chromebooks and Apple, and only costs $ 49. The small bar is connected via USB, and creates a kind of magnetic strip that will allow us to interact with the content on the screen. It is based on a technology called zForce that does not exploit the sensors of the touch but the emission and detection of the frequency of light.
It will be ordered from June 2016 and will be available for various sizes, so as to make it suitable for portable 11.6, 13.3, 14 and 15.6 inches.
4) The printer to create toys
The dream of every child is to be able to build toys that are very similar to those who have imagined and dreamed, and that’s why, for example, simple building blocks such as LEGO had a worldwide hit. The younger generation, however, seem more attracted by the design of its games on the computer and the ability to build more advanced tools, such as 3D printing.
This new technology seems to make every year steps forward and now also the famous Mattel company has decided to exploit its potential to put on sale a kind of creator of toys. ThingMaker is a 3D printer that can be controlled via your smartphone or tablet using a special app, through which you can view or create your own design to be printed.
By working with Autodesk software will can choose between different colors, change the texture or the individual parts of the toy, which then will have to be made to create the final product. It is equipped with all the safety measures to be used by children, such as the device cover that locks until the end of the press and the wait before you crank out a new piece, which otherwise you might get burnt. The main limitation is that you can only print one color pieces, but you can still print pieces of different colors and assemble together at a later time.
The price will be around $ 300, all in all not a digit excessive when considering the prices of certain modern toys.
5) the chair that you “park” alone
the news on new cars to guide autonomous arriving every day from different manufacturers, Apple and Google in the lead. If many have more than a doubt on the actual effectiveness of these devices, in the meantime there are those who invented a way to use a similar idea in the daily work environment.
Over the Nissan offices probably the disorder of the chairs had become intolerable, so someone thought to invent a new chair “self-driving” can rotate 360 degrees and “park itself” alone. Thanks to wireless technology, the chair is controlled with 4 cameras at the four corners of the room, which transmit information to each chair, guiding it to the desired location.
Just clap your hands to activate the ‘Parking car mechanism “and in a few moments the scattered chairs for the office will be back in place, ready to be found in order the next day.
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