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 pillow that helps you sleep
The quality of our nighttime sleep affects the rest of the day and we know how difficult it is to face the work and commitments after a sleepless night or at least uneasy. To the aid of those who are struggling to get to sleep and rest in a satisfactory manner comes Zeeq, a smart product cushion REM-Fit, which helps you get to sleep, stay asleep and wake up at the right time.
By tracking the states of sleep and showing all the information recorded on the relevant app, you will have all the sufficient information to ensure eight hours of sleep a day. It is also able to detect whether a Russian individual with the integrated microphone and vibrates slightly when the subject becomes too noisy, to protect their own welfare and that of their partner. These small vibrations are used to encourage people to change position in an attempt to decrease the possibility of snoring or breathing too loudly. Zeeq sends the same vibrations to help wake up, at least partially, just before the programmed alarm sound, so as to make less traumatic awakening. You can buy one for $ 99 and the first deliveries will arrive by the end of 2016.
2) The material that is self-fix
The animated film Big Hero 6 was broadcast in movie theaters around the world about two years ago and chronicles the exploits of a young genius of robotics, able to create a robot formed by many small independent fragments able to reconnect in case of damage or accident. The same idea was applied by an international team of researchers in South Korea, which have created a material that is self assembles on command by creating various forms. The research was recently published online on Nature Materials , a monthly that deals specifically with the materials science and engineering.
The team that collaborates with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology was inspired by the behavior of swarms of bees and tried to replicate it in the lab, starting from computer modeling and designing of the spheres can auto connect when traversed by an electric field. The researchers conducted laboratory simulations using the particular spheres, created by Dr. Steve Granick IBS Center for Soft Matter and Living all’UNIST School of Natural Science. These particles have two sides, one with positive and one negative. When exposed to an electric field, the charges of the particles are modified and changes their electrostatic interaction. The result is that some particles are strongly attracted to each other and others remain neutral, creating an imbalance that makes possible the construction of pre-defined shapes such as chains or balls.
3) The smart rope sold on ‘ Apple Store
the technology is now part of all major sports, both at professional level and at amateur level, where fans not put off by the prices not too tempting just to stay at up with the times. The latest buzz that wants to revolutionize a historical tool called Smart Fitness Rope and a jump rope with smart functions, it will even be sold on the Apple Store. It has LED lights that create a display while in mid-air jump, showing how many hops we performed, keeping track of usage time, calories burned, and even creating a ranking system that puts competing their results with those of its friends.
This is not a revolutionary gadget, so that in many wondered what you are really helpful to have a rope that counts in our place, bearing in mind that price is not at all appetizing. If a classic rope can cost you at a sports store between 10 and 20 Euros, the price to win Tangram Smart Rope is an impressive $ 90, a figure that could only convince the fanatics of the industry.
4) the seagull-drone that cares for bathers skin
Until a few years ago, the protection of the skin during the summer season was the highest for the youngest children, more sensitive and therefore more exposed to potential sun damage. Today also because of the increase in harmful rays we are more aware of the usefulness of a good sunscreen, not only to prevent sunburn, but above all to protect the skin from nasty diseases. Children, however, are still very reticent to use sunscreens and is primarily for them that Nivea has launched a campaign based on a technology that wants to protect children from the sun and of course sell more sunscreen.
It is a drone able to detect the level of UV rays and that based on the results decides whether to release during its flight of sunscreen to protect children who are in the beach below him. It is equipped with a special camera that detects the kids who do not have the sunscreen, darker shown on its display, and can thus choose which release the protective cream. The form of gull it can blend in the maritime landscape, but it is not yet clear whether it mainly be a publicity stunt or if the drone will really put on the market. Meanwhile, someone has already unbalanced in judgment, calling it the stupidest commercials ever.
5) The clothes that become tends to help refugees
innovations are not always dictated by the search for profit at any cost, but often the most ingenious inventions come from the personal need or a desire to help others with all possible means. Angela Moon, a student at Parsons School of Design, in discussions on the topic of migrants began to think of a concrete way to help them, creating something useful for them. The result was a line of clothing designed especially for those who flee from wars and often does not have a place to sleep and must make do in makeshift places, without actually find a true sanctuary. The collection consists of a series of complete clothes that are able if necessary to be re-assembled and form a real field tent, providing at any time a shelter for sleeping. The hope is that the inventor that this set of clothes collect the funds necessary for mass production and are donated to many charities in recent years in particular, work with the Syrian refugees.
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