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23rd of April 2018
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Maxeri Military-Style Small Tactical Pocket Knife with Premium Stainless Steel Blade2018-04-17 10:37:40
Maxeri Military-Style Small Tactical Pocket Knife might not be suitable as your main pocket knife, but it is a reliable secondary knife. Built like a -
Biomimetic Self-fueling Transportation System by Mehrdad Khorsandi2018-04-16 07:20:01
Submitted by Mehrdad Khorsandi, Biomimetic Self-fueling transportation system offers a futuristic concept vehicle where its movements are not limited -
Modern IKEA LÖRBY USB Charger with Clamp for Your Office Desk2018-04-16 05:20:29
IKEA has designed a new flexible USB charger, LÖRBY. It’s an easy to use USB charger with clamp, making it easy to attach where you need it -
Formula One 360E Concept Racing Car Features Goodyear Eagle 360 Spherical Tire Design2018-04-13 11:17:47
Submitted by Lee Rosario, Formula One 360E is a concept race car designed around the concept Goodyear Eagle 360 spherical tire design. It boasts a 360 -
Smart Watch Concept Proposal for CASIO by Tyson Mai2018-04-13 06:15:40
This smart watch is a concept proposal for Casio. As we all know, Casio is a Japan electronics company that took the title of “smart watch&rdquo -
Powerful Behemoth Electric Bike Is Equipped with 1000W Mid Drive Motor for Super Performance2018-04-12 11:11:36
Ride on virtually any surface, Behemoth Electric Bike promises that you would enjoy the ride. This bike won’t limit you to just ride on streets, -
Purisoo Portable Water Purifier Bottle with Replaceable Filter2018-04-12 05:11:21
Running out of clean drinking water while you are hiking/camping? Or maybe you are in the middle of an emergency situation such as natural disaster. T -
Rick and Morty Screaming Sun Alarm Clock Features A Little Sun That Screams Non-Stop to Wake You Up2018-04-11 12:38:24
The warmth of the sun or the sound of birds chirping are definitely not enough to wake us up in the morning. We need something stronger to make us lea -
Tri-Lamp Detachable Flashlight Set with Different Lighting Modes2018-04-11 07:39:10
A modular design of a flashlight set. Tri-Lamp is certainly highly functional flashlight set whether you are indoor or outdoor. It consists of three i -
Hoverboard 2.0 Future Personal Mobility with Retractable Steering Column2018-04-11 05:07:16
Designed by Nikhil Kapoor, Hoverboard 2.0 offers future personal mobility. It’s a compact vehicle designed with attention to details of the use -
Monocoque Paddle Canoe by BorromeodeSilva2018-04-10 13:40:03
Monocoque Paddle Canoe displays exquisite craftsmanship, this canoe showcases BorromeodeSilva ability to combines traditional craftsmanship with high -
Take A Wild Water Ride with Zapata Flyboard Flying Personal Watercraft2018-04-10 08:49:29
Zapata Flyride was born out of Franky Zapata’s idea, a world jet-ski champion. It’s a thrill ride for extreme riders designed specially to
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Exhibit focuses on homes that adapt and change with us2018-04-17 11:00:48
Most housing is designed for nuclear families, but most U.S. households don't meet that description. -
With smart cities, your every step will be recorded2018-04-17 10:33:04
Modern cities are brimming with objects that receive, collect and transmit data. This includes mobile phones but also objects actually embedded into o -
Toyota to start deploying vehicle-to-vehicle tech in 20212018-04-16 16:22:51
Toyota says it will start equipping models with technology to talk to other vehicles starting in 2021, as it tries to push safety communications forwa -
'Poker face' stripped away by new-age tech2018-04-14 05:52:33
Dolby Laboratories chief scientist Poppy Crum tells of a fast-coming time when technology will see right through people no matter how hard they try to -
Bovines online: Farmers are using AI to help monitor cows2018-04-13 04:47:28
Is the world ready for cows armed with artificial intelligence? -
Autonomous vehicle to improve integrated transport solutions2018-04-12 08:29:53
We all know that, in the future, cars will be driving themselves. In fact, some already are – but debate is still raging about their safety afte -
Hino, VW partner on hybrids, autonomous drive, technology2018-04-12 03:50:01
Hino Motors, Toyota Motor Corp.'s group truck manufacturer, and Volkswagen Truck & Bus of Germany agreed Thursday to work together on technologie -
After Uber, Tesla incidents, can artificial intelligence be trusted?2018-04-10 08:30:01
Given the choice of riding in an Uber driven by a human or a self-driving version, which would you choose? -
Toyota's Plano-based CEO talks self-driving cars and the real reason the automaker suspended testing2018-04-06 05:30:01
When a woman crossing an Arizona street was struck and killed by a self-driving Uber car late last month, it sparked a swift public reckoning over the -
Driverless cars are already here, but the roads aren't ready for them2018-04-04 11:00:01
The recent deaths of a woman struck by a car Uber was testing in driverless mode and of a man whose Tesla Model X crashed when his hands were off the -
Tesla says 'Autopilot' was engaged during fatal crash (Update)2018-03-31 14:55:36
Electric carmaker Tesla has confirmed its "Autopilot" feature was engaged during a fatal crash last week, a development set to exacerbate concerns o -
Tougher US rules needed on autonomous cars: advocate2018-03-29 16:42:57
Accidents involving autonomous cars could slow the advance of the technology and demonstrate the need for tougher federal standards, a leading highway
Inventions News
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Stephen Kessler: Popularity, privacy and promiscuity2018-04-21 10:43:51
There's a lot of talk lately about privacy and people's right to it and the protection of it, but guess what. The genie is out of that bottle, the h -
Is the Federal Circuit's Holding that the Presumption Against...2018-04-21 06:00:58
Case at a Glance: The Court will consider whether the text of 35 U.S.C. A 271 imposes liability on those supplying from the United States components o -
Local Inventor Asks For Community's Help To Advance In Idea Contest2018-04-21 01:25:24
A local innovator whose invention won a "pitch" contest will continue to compete with his product. The Pitch Livingston contest, held in September, -
Gap of Information is Reason for Revoking a European Patent2018-04-20 20:50:47
The Situation : In European patent law, opposition against a patent grant can be based only on particular grounds, with one of the grounds being insuf -
Though he was no inventor, Rube Goldberg's 'machines' made him a household name2018-04-20 16:07:05
A Technion contest for international students pays tribute to the Jewish cartoonist in honor of Israel's 70th, but few know of the darker cloud of an -
at&T antitrust trial comes down to testimony from at&T Ceo2018-04-20 11:22:56
After weeks of testimony from economists, survey experts and rival executives who oppose the merger, the defense on Thursday called its final witness -
Cary Marsh showing-off her invention on Channel 4 show Buy It Now2018-04-20 06:45:35
A Wimbledon inventor and mum of three boys found an ingenious way to turn their muddy boots into a money-spinner. Cary Marsh's Bootclaw, designed to -
Frank Zappa in his heydey with the Mothers of Invention, at the Fillmore East in New York in 1971.2018-04-20 02:05:47
When armed with an electric guitar, the compulsively outrageous Frank Zappa radically redefined any pop musical genre that crossed his path. But class -
The solution to potholes? Check out this Cleveland invention2018-04-19 21:33:58
Potholes are the bane of many Clevelanders' existence and all you have to do is drive down any street to see why. There's two sides to every story, -
Maine inventor 'bends boundaries' to make it easier to walk or stop a skateboard2018-04-19 17:02:28
Ian Engelman arrived at his office Tuesday morning and poured black polyurethane into a mold, spilling some onto layers of protective cardboard coveri -
Australian, 'Doctor Death' invents suicide machine that...2018-04-19 12:22:06
A controversial suicide pod that enables its occupant to kill themselves at a press of a button went on display at Amsterdam funeral show on Saturday. -
For more than 100 years, his inventions have kept New Orleans dry2018-04-19 07:33:02
The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting 300 people
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Weekend takeaway: Design your tomorrow2018-04-20 11:31:41
Essential weekend sci-tech reading including design thinking for schools, the founder that sparked the European fintech revolution and a golden ticket -
Satellite snaps image of uninhabited Pacific island covered in plastic2018-04-20 10:35:47
Ahead of Earth Day, new images taken by the Sentinel-2 satellite show a depressing picture when it comes to plastic pollution in our oceans. The post -
New super sponge can suck up oil spills like nobody’s business2018-04-20 05:09:00
Australian scientists have developed a new super sponge that can soak up much of the damage caused by a major oil spill. The post New super sponge ca -
What is the golden ticket to science communication?2018-04-20 05:00:55
FameLab Ireland 2018 winner Sharon Omiwole drew on caffeine biochemistry to brew up a strong mix for science communication. The medical student spoke -
Why design thinking should be taught in every school2018-04-20 04:30:15
Silicon Valley’s creative process, design thinking, is uncovering gems in Northern Irish schools. TechWatch editor Emily McDaid spoke to Patrici -
How plastic-eating bacteria actually work – a chemist explains2018-04-19 10:31:15
Emily Flashman from the University of Oxford explains that while plastic-eating bacteria is great news, we shouldn’t think it’s a complete -
State-of-the-art tsunami detectors to be installed off Irish coast2018-04-19 05:53:21
Off the west coast of Ireland, a fleet of state-of-the-art tsunami detectors are to be installed, led by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Th -
RIA president: ‘Ireland is a world leader in electronics’2018-04-19 05:00:44
This week on Leaders’ Insights, Peter Kennedy shines a spotlight on the world of academia and the field of electronic engineering. The post RIA -
App tackling homelessness crisis among winners of innovation awards2018-04-19 04:59:57
DCU has announced the winners of its President’s Awards for Innovation, including an app that lets people donate to homelessness charities by ma -
Software research group Lero named winner of major global award2018-04-18 06:32:40
Irish software research group Lero has achieved international success having been named an award winner by the IEEE Computer Society. The post Softwar -
Here is how it might be possible to make barren planets habitable2018-04-17 10:41:14
Colonising a planet such as Mars would be a monumental challenge given its lack of atmosphere, but what if we could make the surface habitable? The po -
What’s it like to be an LGBTQ person in STEM?2018-04-17 09:00:40
Shaun O’Boyle is behind a new initiative called House of STEM, which aims to connect LGBTQ scientists and create an inclusive community. Here, h
Startups – TechCrunch
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In the NYC enterprise startup scene, security is job one2018-04-21 12:00:54
While most people probably would not think of New York as a hotbed for enterprise startups of any kind, it is actually quite active. When you stop to -
Through luck and grit, Datadog is fusing the culture of developers and operations2018-04-21 12:00:47
There used to be two cultures in the enterprise around technology. On one side were software engineers, who built out the applications needed by emplo -
Up-and-coming enterprise startups in NYC2018-04-21 12:00:41
New York City has an incredible density of up-and-coming enterprise-focused startups. While the winners are publicized and well-known, we felt it was -
Full-Metal Packet is hosting the future of cloud infrastructure2018-04-21 12:00:32
Cloud computing has been a revolution for the data center. Rather than investing in expensive hardware and managing a data center directly, companies -
BigID lands in the right place at the right time with GDPR2018-04-21 12:00:18
Every startup needs a little skill and a little luck. BigID, a NYC-based data governance solution has been blessed with both. The company, which helps -
Timescale is leading the next wave of NYC database tech2018-04-21 12:00:01
Data is the lifeblood of the modern corporation, yet acquiring, storing, processing, and analyzing it remains a remarkably challenging and expensive p -
Special Report: New York’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem2018-04-21 12:00:00
New York City is a marvel of infrastructure planning and engineering. There are the visible landmarks — the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, -
Startup ecosystem report: China is rising while the US is waning2018-04-20 15:02:18
Startups are a gamble, but it’s possible to better understand why some thrive and many more die by looking at the ecosystems in which they opera -
This robot can build your IKEA furniture2018-04-20 09:15:04
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who hate building IKEA furniture and madmen. Now, thanks to IkeaBot, the madmen can be replaced. Ike -
Square acquires corporate catering startup Zesty2018-04-19 16:30:43
Square has acquired elements of corporate catering startup Zesty . Square, which already owns on-demand food delivery service Caviar, plans to use Zes -
Crypto-collectibles and Kitties marketplace Rare Bits raises $6M2018-04-19 12:00:41
Rare Bits wants to be eBay for the blockchain, where you buy, sell and trade non-fungible crypto-goods. After CryptoKitties raised $12 million fr -
3D-printing marketplace Shapeways raises a $30 million Series E2018-04-19 11:34:28
Investors, it seems, aren’t entirely soured on the world of 3D printing. The technology is still making progress in the enterprise sector, and S
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Facebook: Take the virtual community with its corporate flaws or leave it?2018-03-23 00:00:07
Facebook represents a truly 21st-century conundrum to users: When your community is a big business, and when a company's biggest business is your com -
Facebook spotlights improper data extraction during political campaigns2018-03-23 00:00:07
Facebook announced Monday that user information had been extracted 'inappropriately' and had been applied to US political campaign strategies. Resea -
First pedestrian fatality from self-driving vehicle raises more safety concerns2018-03-23 00:00:07
As technology companies and automakers compete to bring self-driving vehicles to market, regulations have been left up to states, which have taken var -
Autonomous vehicles break ground in construction industry2018-03-23 00:00:07
A San Francisco startup is developing technology to allow construction vehicles to operate themselves. The startup is part of a wa -
Can your boss make you wear a Fitbit?2018-03-23 00:00:07
Some 8 percent of employee wellness plans offer wearable fitness trackers to workers. Are the trackers really voluntary? -
Ride-hailing apps boost women economically but safety concerns persist2018-03-23 00:00:07
Women drivers benefit significantly from ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft, says a new report from the International Finance Corporation. Many of t -
Cities argue 5G internet rollout laws violate property rights2018-03-23 00:00:07
The installation of infrastructure for ultrafast 5G networks are impeding the public's right of way, critics say. Local authorities, under -
From fake news to fabricated video, can we preserve our shared reality?2018-03-23 00:00:07
The advent of inexpensive and readily accessible fabricated video production brings new meaning to the phrase 'seeing is believing.' Combatting fals -
Teen creates a safety app for lone commuters2018-03-23 00:00:07
Medha Gupta felt unsafe walking home alone, so, as most teenagers would, she turned to her phone. Medha, however, went one step further, turning her w -
Data protection officers see job offers skyrocket with looming European regulation2018-03-23 00:00:07
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which will give citizens more control over their online information, is set to take effect i -
Meltdown, Spectre chip vulnerabilities: What you need to know2018-03-23 00:00:07
Big security flaws have been revealed in nearly all the world’s computer processors. -
As the world becomes computerized, can we bridge digital inequalities?2018-03-23 00:00:07
Global initiatives seek to teach online skills to increase access to jobs and education. However, some experts debate how well these schemes reach tho
IdeaConnection :: Inventions
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Caffeine Catalyst Leads to Gel-Based Medications2018-04-20 01:00:00
A biocompatible polymer gel made using caffeine could lead to new chewable gels for drug delivery. -
Gravity Separation Aids in Smartphone Recycling2018-04-19 13:00:00
An innovative new gravity separation device could make recycling e-waste more efficient. -
Thin Film Converts Waste Heat to Electricity2018-04-19 07:00:00
A nanoelectric film able to convert heat to electricity could recycle the energy from waste heat for use in car or computers. -
Soluciones Kenko ECGlove Detects Arrhythmias Quickly2018-04-19 01:00:00
The ECGlove from Soluciones Kenko helps emergency responders quickly check patients for arrhythmias. -
Flare Bike Light Identifies Road Hazards2018-04-18 13:00:00
The Flare smart bike light invention helps bikers create a cooperative map of road dangers like potholes and traffic. -
Painless, Faster Microbiopsy Device2018-04-18 07:00:00
A microbiopsy device that can take skin samples without scarring could revolutionize how doctors test for skin cancer. -
iHarvey Thermoelectric Generator2018-04-18 01:00:00
iHarvey is a thermoelectric generator. The unit can be fueled with Kerosene or Diesel fuel. iHarvey burns its fuel with extreme efficiency - reducing -
Accidental Mutation Creates Better Plastic Eating Bacteria2018-04-18 01:00:00
Created by accident, the improved plastic-eating PETase enzyme could offer a new way to deal with plastic waste. -
Graphene Spikes Reduce Implant Rejection2018-04-17 19:00:00
Outfitting medical implants with graphene spikes could help prevent bacterial infections during surgery. -
Peptide Toothpaste Repairs Cavities2018-04-17 13:00:00
A peptide toothpaste able to prevent cavities goes beyond brushing to ensure better oral hygiene. -
Fiber Optic Probe Measures Brain Temperature2018-04-17 01:00:00
A fiber optic probe able to measure brain temperature could help researchers develop safer drugs and refine cancer treatments. -
Kelvin Home Coffee Roaster2018-04-16 13:00:00
The Kelvin home coffee roaster invention makes it easy to roast fresh coffee beans at home.
Futurism
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FDA Committee Recommends Approving Marijuana-Derived Drug2018-04-19 18:33:14
Medical marijuana may be legal in 29 states, but marijuana-based medicine isn’t legal in any. Yet. Today, a U.S. Food and Drug Administrati -
A Moss Can Naturally Clean Harmful Arsenic From Water2018-04-19 18:11:38
If you happen to be thirsty in the woods, there are a lot of things you can stick in your canteen to help clean up your drinking water. There are chlo -
To Protect Endangered Coral Reefs, Researchers Need Legal Recourse2018-04-19 16:52:03
We don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Or, sometimes, until it’s almost gone. So consider this fair warning: it -
Amazon Wants to Help Crack Down on Crypto Crime — for a Price2018-04-19 16:05:19
Giant gummy bears. Fake mullets. Even, yes, the kitchen sink. Anything you need (plus anything you didn’t think anyone could ever need -
The Impossible Burger Looks, Tastes, and Smells Traditional – But Is Vegan2018-04-19 15:28:15
The impossible is here. Literally. (And it might be coming to a restaurant near you.) The post The Impossible Burger Looks, Tastes, and Smells Traditi -
The World’s Most Googled Bitcoin Questions Answered2018-04-19 15:14:03
Brush up on your bitcoin knowledge with answers to the most googled bitcoin questions. The post The World’s Most Googled Bitcoin Questions Answe -
Basically Everyone Wants Scott Pruitt Out of Office2018-04-19 14:57:53
Scott Pruitt’s tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency has been anything but smooth sailing. Disastrous environmental policies asi -
Facebook Just Moved 1.5 Billion Users’ Data To Avoid New Privacy Laws2018-04-19 12:27:49
Did Facebook’s apology tour win you over? Did Zuckerberg’s performance in front of Congress convince you the company is ready to -
That Cocktail Napkin? It Could Tell You If Someone Laced Your Drink.2018-04-19 10:56:47
Danya Sherman had an unsettling experience studying abroad in Spain in 2016. A friend, another international student, spiked her drink. She doesn&rsqu -
The First “Cell-Free” CRISPR Tech Is Here To Personalize Cancer Treatment2018-04-19 10:00:15
A single technology can help kill superbugs, slow cancer’s growth, and potentially help us end world hunger. No, it’s not magic. It&r -
California Is Investigating Tesla For Workplace Safety2018-04-18 17:41:19
4/18/18 7:20 PM ET: This post has been updated to include a statement from a Tesla spokesperson. Well, people, it’s happening: California& -
Syphilis Google Searches Help Public Health Officials Predict New Cases2018-04-18 17:38:10
A weird bump pops up. It’s probably nothing, but, what if it’s not? You don’t want to visit a doctor because visiting a doctor for&n
