Category: High Tech
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Scandou Scout: Handheld Scanner Analyzes And Communicates Real Time Vital Data
Scanadu Scout is a medical diagnostic tool connected to your smartphone and measures in real time your temperature, heart rate and other vital data. We tell you about this revolutionary scanner developed by a Belgian inventor. Scandu Scout is developed by a Belgian firm Scanadu, founded by Walter De Brouwer. In fact, his son was the victim of a…
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French Scientists Develop A Revolutionary Diode Composed Of A Single Molecule
According to the journal Physical Review Letters, French engineers have just achieved another milestone in the miniaturization of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs), by creating an LED just composed of single molecule. We explain to you in detail the operation of this LED. LEDs are the devices which glow when the current is passed through them in a single…
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Sols: Create Customized 3D Insoles From A Scan Of Foot With Smartphone App (Video)
The 3D printing is finding many applications in the fields of health care and biomedical engineering. Now, many different types of prosthetics, casts and splints are being made using this innovative technology. The Sols project launched by an New York company is now using this technology to make customized insoles to relieve foot pain and…
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3D Printing Technology For Astronauts To Easily Make Fresh Pizzas In Space (Video)
The space missions for the astronauts often last many days. Not to mention the astronauts who have to spend months in the space stations. During the stay astronauts eat specialized foods and it is difficult to have hand cooked food. They may specially miss the Pizzas they ate while on Earth. The Anjan Contractor has…
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A New Robotic Leg Enables Drones To Perch For Spying Missions (Video)
Most of the robots that we see normally can fly in the air like a bird but they cannot hold or walk on a branch as a bird does. Vishwa Robotics has tried to bridge this gap by designing a drone that can perch and walk like a bird. Bhargav Gajjar from Vishwa Robotics in…
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A Duck Finds Use Of Its Malformed Leg Thanks To A 3D printed prosthetic (Video)
3D printing is an exciting field that is finding its application in many different domains, for example, it can be used to construct a house in 24 hours. More surprisingly, it has also been used in the service of animals as we explained in one our previous articles: A Sea Hawk Is Able To Use His…
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Police Investigators Will Now Use 3D scanner To Document The Crime Scene (Video)
American and French police will now use 3D scanners to archive crime scenes and better analyze it afterwards. The technology we see in the police films, will soon be a reality! Some units of U.S. and French Police have started using a new technology to analyze crime scenes thoroughly, down to the minute details. This technology is…
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Your Body Heat Can Now Power Your Portable Electrical Gadgets
The latest Consumer Electric Show in Las Vegas was marked by the introduction of a new revolutionary battery that can power your wearable gadgets using the heat generated by the human body. This ecological system would hopefully able to recharge watches and other connected accessories. The Franco-Italian microelectronics company STMicroelectronics has announced plans, in early 2014, to make…
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Within three years batteries May Be Powered By Sugar
It is a high time for our planet, as the scientific and researchers are trying to find non-polluting alternatives to existing sources of energy. A team of researchers has managed to make a battery with a sugar based solution. We present to you the details of this amazing invention. This innovative concept of creating energy…
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SaveOneLife system: Lemur Studio Fits Shoes With A Mine Detector
In warn torn zones, even after the seizures of hostilities, the already deployed landmines continue to threaten the people for a long time. The SaveOneLife project, designed by Lemur Design Studio, incorporates the mine detector in the shoes of people to protect them from getting killed or maimed by mines. There are about 3 million mines…
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Custom Leg Prosthesis Designs For The Fashionable Amputees (Photo Gallery)
Some people, despite of their disabilities, do not consider themselves handicapped, and want to live and enjoy the life to its fullest. We present to you some of the customized and fashionable leg prostheses designs for such people. Bespoke Innovations was founded in 2009 by the designer Scott Summit and orthopedic surgeon Kenneth Trauner. This foundation aims to build tailor-made…
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The Discovery Of A Mysterious Rock On Mars Intrigues The Scientific Community
Opportunity was the rover sent on Mars about 10 years ago. After 10 years of operation on the red planet, it has completed its mission with a nice surprise. The rover has discovered a strange rock that was not there before. We tell you about this mysterious phenomenon. Launched on 8 July 2003, Opportunity is the second…
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Landmine-detecting Husky Robot For Safe Minesweeping In War Torn Areas
Like Chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, known as the weapons of mass destruction, the mines are also one of the biggest threats to humanity. The exact number of landmines deployed around the world is unknown. However, according to an estimate there are at least one million unexploded mines buried in the different theaters of wars…
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Sensoria Connected Socks Will Become Your New Personal Coach
The technology of connected devices will soon be developed and customized for your own clothes too. For example, the Heapsylone company is launching connected socks that can keep track of your physical activities. We introduce to you this garment of a new type. Like a coach, the socks Sensoria are able to keep track of your physical…
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9 Unusual Types Of Arms Captured At The U.S. Airports
We all know that after 9/11, the notion of security in United states airports took a very different meaning. The passengers have since been prohibited from carrying even the small knives in their hand carry. It is the responsibility of the security at U.S. airports, to ensure that the passengers board the airplanes without any weapons or explosives.…