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 gloves that translate sign language
The dream of every student is to find a ‘ brilliant idea that change our life, it’s a new business or a real invention. Well, two students of Washington University have succeeded, creating a couple of smart gloves able to translate sign language instantaneously, vocally or through text.
They are called SignAloud gloves, use sophisticated sensors to recognize the signs that come from the American sign language (ASL) and were rewarded recently with 10 thousand dollars to the Lemelson-MIT Student Price. The two boys have created this device during free time at school, using the resources made available by the university. “Our intention in developing these gloves – they explained – was to help bridge the communication gap between those who can not speak and the rest of the world.”
2) The camp stove designed 2.0 from Italian
the young Italians are not certain to watch their foreign peers and have now learned to use the new resources to give life to their projects and show them to the whole world. Five boys are carrying out what is believed to be one of the most ambitious projects, and followed on the popular crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. Enki Stove Wild is a stove that produces clean energy using any of the available biomass, such as dead branches, and which in turn is fed by a small USB battery and a solar panel. The biomass decomposition process is called pyrolysis and retrieves all the available energy, then even without releasing the fumes, exploiting the total absence of oxygen. The energy produced, said the developers, is enough to heat a grill or boil water in a pot, the ideal for when you organize excursions with friends. The requested budget of EUR 30 thousand has been more than doubled and it is already possible to order the first models from 160 Euros, which will be delivered in May.
3) Nivea and anti-odor covers
the main problem for many people who suffer from high perspiration is often unaware of their condition, especially when you emit foul odors. The Nivea researchers then devised a new method. The German company has recently announced the launch of Nose, a cover for smartphones that will be able to monitor the level of perspiration of every man and warn him when the time comes to take a nice shower.
The cover to be closer to the armpit and pressing a button will analyze the situation, based on a calibrated odor database of over 4 thousand men. The app on your smartphone then show the response on a scale of three degrees: “All right”, “It’s time to take a shower” or “You urgently need a shower.” The object is very curious and definitely weird, is not easy to predict whether someone will be interested, but if by chance you receive it as a gift from a friend, maybe it’s time to ask a few questions.
4) the blood glucose meter for diabetics who do not need the blood
The largest companies around the world are investing billions of dollars in recent years in medical research, focusing in particular on the establishment of devices that take advantage of new technologies. Also research institutes and universities, sometimes with limited resources, are working constantly to revolutionary projects and often the results are amazing.
The Cardiff University has recently presented a new type of blood glucose meter for diabetics, who does not need to measure blood glucose levels. It required only a small puncture at the time of initial calibration, it could be a big improvement for people suffering from type 1 diabetes and is forced to fished blood several times a day. The meter must be attached to the arm by means of an adhesive and detects blood glucose by means of microwaves at very low intensity, so harmful to the body. The data are read by any computer or through an app on your smartphone instantly. At present only about fifty patients are testing this new device but it is hoped that within a few years will be freely traded.
5) The windows can produce energy developed in Italy
Renewable energy remains central to the researchers’ studies, which now seems obvious the need to abandon the old fossil fuels to safeguard the environment and thus our well-being. The latest revolutionary invention is precisely from Italy and precisely by a research team coordinated between the Graphene Labs of the Italian Institute of Technology and the Organic Solar Pole Region Lazio University of Rome Tor Vergata. It is a new type of photovoltaic panel composed of graphene, semitransparent and from the very reduced cost. The details of this study were published in the international journal Nanoscale .
The solar module graphene has a fifty centimeters square feet, the largest ever achieved with this material, and it will be presented on June 7 at the next edition of Technology Hub in Milan. This type of panels allow the creation of windows at limited cost, which, in addition to normally passing light to the interior of buildings, immagazzinerebbero energy then used in home electrical network.
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