Apple's revealed smart home technology known as Homekit which is a certified devices that allow to control lights with voice command and turn them off and on and adjust room temperature as well as other appliances from the iPads, iPhones and iPods.
These five devices are: Elgato is a device that controls temperature, humidity, air pressure water and energy consumption as well.Ecobee...
Cow Manure powered Bus Sets World Speed Record
UK based Reading Buses powered by cow manure broke previous land speed record of the bus.In UK normally buses run with speed limits of 56 mph.The bus is known as the "Bus Hound" that runs on biomethane compressed natural gas (CNG) reached a lap speed of 76.785 mph (123.57 km/h) around the test track at Bedford's Millbrook proving Ground.
The bus has potential to run on biomethane,...
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Wind Power Ecocapsule Allows Live Off-The-Grid Anywhere On Earth
Bratislava, Slovakia based group Nice Architects unveiled a tiny egg shaped portable house which is powered by wind and solar energy and contains rain drops collection as well as filtration.This is a micro-home that is designed as energy efficient, called "Ecocapsule".
It contains 2.6 sq metre array of high efficiency solar cells on the roof and a built in 750W wind turbine, both provide...
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Input Device Phree Tracks Notes, Sketching On Any Surface
Tel Aviv, Isreal based OTM Technologies company revealed a prototype smartpen called "Phree" which is a high resolution input device allows users write down notes, sketch or anything on any surface and see the sketch or notes appear on your device screen.
Phree connects to a various devices such as smartphone, tablet and computers.It is also capable to work with TV and laptops via Bluetooth...
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Vortex Stick Like Turbine Generates More Power At Low Cost
A Spanish radical company called Vortex Bladeless changes the way we capture energy from the wind.The ompany targets to generate wind power through Vortex, which is a stick like bladeless wind turbine.When wind flows over stick like turbine the flow changes and generates a cyclical pattern of vertices which is called vortex shedding effect that creates vorticity.Through vorticity...
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World's First Bike Path That Generates 3,000 kWh Of Energy
Six months age in November 2014, SolaRoad opened a world's first solar path which is 230 feet long that generates energy, in Krommenie, a village northwest of the Dutch city of Amsterdam.It generated 3,000 kWh of electricity or enough to power a single person home for a year.It is three year project which costs 3.5-million Euros.
A spokeman of SolaRoad, Sten de Wit said,...
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The $9 CHIP Computer Runs Linux, Crushing Kickstarter
The Next Thing Co. a Oakland, California based company lunched a CHIP which is a microcomputer, on Kickstarter.It is a tiny computer that can support a full version of Linux.CHIP is smaller than a credit card which costs about $9.It allows user to check your email over wifi, surf the Web and play games with a Bluethooth option.
It comes with a 1 GHz processor, 512MB RAM and...
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Fixstars Announced World's First 6-Terabyte SSD
Japanese software company Fixstars has introduced the world's first 6TD 2.5 inch SATA Solid State Drive.The Fixstars drive is known as SSD-6000M that has a 6TD of storage capacity and uses 15nm flash memory.It supports SATA 6Gbps, offers read speeds up to 540 MB/s and write speeds of 520 MB/s which is higher speed 6Gbps of serial vise access.Fixstars is taking orders; sending will...
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iPhone Case Downloads Power From Air To Extend Mobile's Battery Life
Nikola Labs has developed an iPhone case which has potential to download power from air.A company has presented their product at a TechCrunch event, an iPhone case which can convert radio frequencies into electricity that can be utilized to recharge the battery of a mobile devices.It is a case that is designed for iPhone 6.
The iPhone case can convert 90 percent of the energy wasted...
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Microsoft App Judges Your Age From A Photo
Microsoft has launched a new website known as How Old.net that utilizes facial recognition software to determine your age based on a image.It is a website where users can upload a photo and API has to estimate how old is and also guess about gender.
Microsoft's demo app was released during build conference in San Francisco, a few days ago.Microsoft's Machine Learning APIs is a really...
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This High Speed Camera Could Visualize Atoms
Japanese researchers have developed a high speed camera that can record events at a rate of more than 1-trillion-frames-per-second.A new high speed camera ables to capture images a thousand times faster than formal high speed cameras.By this camera researchers can watch or capture waves of atoms travelling through crystal structures at one sixth of the speed of light, or about 28,000...
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Remote Technology That Detects Human Life With Cameras
Two Iraqi students Laith Al-Shimaysawee and Ali Al-Dabbagh are studing at Adelaide's Flinder University have developed a technology which can be utilized for detecting human life using remote cameras, which could be used for rescue operations.These two students are from Najaf, south of Baghdad and studying their masters on Iraqi Government scholarships.
These two have created...
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Clever Shoes That Grow 5 Sizes In 5 Year To Help Poor Children
The shoes invented by Kenton Lee that grow and can adjust its size as the foot grows.The shoes come with only two sizes, small and large.Each size can grow five sizes and last at least five years.
Kenton Lee was in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007.One day he saw a girl wearing shoes that were very small for her feet.Then he thinked about a shoe that could adjust and expand.He said, "there...
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Gamers Feel Virtual Objects with Omni Gloves
Engineering students are making a glove that allows a gamer to feel objects in a virtual space.The glove introduced by engineers at Rice University is called Omni glove which allows a user to interact with virtual objects in the world.The glove revealed during the George R. Brown School of Engineering Design Showcase and built up with a Houton gaming company (Virtuix), is purposed to leave...
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Mammals Can Tell The Time Of Day Via Colour
Scientists from the University of Manchester have unveiled that the colour of light has a big impacts on brain clock.The colour of light has play a big role in how animals measure what time of day it is and the physiology and behaviour change according to light's colour.
The Study was published in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology which explains that the mammal's internal clock could...
Researchers Invent A Camera That Powers Itself
At Columbia a researcher Shree K. Nayar and T.C. Chang, Professor of Computer Science with his team has introduced a video camera that powers itself.In the prototype video camera reseacher designed a pixel that is able to measure incident light and convert incident light into electric power.
The camera is expected to make its way to wearable devices, sensor networks, smartphones...
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Researchers Launch Coating That Protects Cotton From Flame And Water
In china a team of researchers have introduced a triple layer coating that makes cotton waterproof and fire resistant as well as self cleaning.The researchers Shanshan Chen , Xiang Li, Yang Li and Junqi Sun from Jilin University found a way to extend the life of fire retardants and hit on an idea to formed water resistant materials.
They dipped a strip of cotton into different...
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