Designer Daan Roosegaarde installed the Smog Free Tower in Rotterdam, the world's largest vacuum cleaner that helps clean the air. But that's not all - the smog that the cleaner pulls up turns the village into jewelry. The seven-meter-tall structure, which cleans the air in its vicinity and offers some respite from dangerous levels of pollution, is also successful on Kickstarter.
At this year's IFA 2015, Philips impressed with the 65-inch 4K AmbiLux UHD TV, which spills the image from the screen onto the background. So now the room comes alive in the spirit of the content happening on the TV even more than with the previous Philips Ambilight system, because instead of LEDs, 9 miniature "dot" projectors are hidden on the back of the TV, which illuminate the background of the TV and practically merge with the picture.
Tim Cook said at Apple's gala event that the iPhone 6S is definitely the most advanced smartphone in the world. And yes, many people will immediately and unconditionally agree with this, others will not be convinced even by the facts. But do these speak in favor of the words of the leading man of Apple or not?
Scoutee is a Slovenian baseball speedometer, which recently started its Kickstarter company, with which it wants to raise 50 thousand US dollars to start production. The start is encouraging, but the ball is round, as they say, so the team must not chill the champagne yet. It is a radar device that measures the speed of the ball used in baseball (it is expected to measure other types of balls in the future), and their target group in the first phase is aspiring baseball players as well as coaches.
The love for turntables just doesn't go away and the sale of gramophone records or. vinyl has been on the rise in recent years. The musical medium from which music is extracted by a needle has become a concept of nostalgia and with the Rocket and Wind product, a walkman for vinyl records or with the Rawman 3000 portable turntable, it will only flare up even more, as it combines the good old Walkman/Diskman format and the most romantic sound carrier.
Asus recently teamed up with Google to produce the Chromebit pocket PC, but now it's ventured into these waters again on its own. His new product is called VivoStick and runs the latest Windows (Windows 10). With this, Asus is keeping pace with the growing market of compact personal computers, and the new product is manufactured using 14-nanometer technology and is consequently extremely energy-efficient.
At Berlin's IFA, the world's largest consumer electronics and home appliance trade fair, Sony has unveiled three new premium smartphones under the Xperia Z5 label. The flagship of the family is the Xperia Z5 Premium, the world's first 4K smartphone, which boasts four times the resolution of full HD (most high-end phones have either a Full HD or Quad HD screen) and a two-day battery life.
Two sizes, three designs and tons of personalization. This is the second generation of Motorola's Moto 360 smart watch. If you didn't have a design choice with the original model, the successor "corrects" that. There are classic versions such as men's (screen diameter 42 and 46 mm) and women's (42 mm) watches, as well as the Moto 360 sport, which is created for sports activities and is accordingly secured with materials that can cope with such conditions (e.g. a strap made of silicone). All of them are waterproof and equipped with a heart rate monitor.
The Acer Jade Primo smartphone is the world's first "PC phone" that can become a PC thanks to the Continuum feature of the Windows 10 operating system. Therefore, in addition to standard accessories such as a charger and headphones, you will also get peripherals such as a keyboard and a wireless mouse and a docking station. Continuum lets you turn your phone into an almost purebred PC when you connect it to an external display, keyboard and mouse.
Robin is the first smartphone in the world that uses cloud technology. Behind the phone, which quickly exceeded the set financial goal on Kickstarter, although it was set at half a million US dollars, there are ex-Googlers and ex-HTC employees. And yes, to say the least, the Robin doesn't stand out in terms of specs. There is a 5.2-inch screen with a resolution of 1080p, a Snapdragon processor and 32 GB of internal memory. With an emphasis on 'internal'. This Android is able to offer an additional 100 GB of cloud space! And that's the reason it stands out so much from the competition.
Just when we thought computer assembly was saying goodbye, it is experiencing its second spring. It was revived by projects such as the modular phone Phonebloks and Google's Project Ara, and now Acer is joining the modular brush, which introduced a computer that you can assemble like Lego bricks. It's called the Revo Build, and its intelligent design allows you to add bricks (read functionality/extra capabilities) to it like speakers, a projector, a wireless charging station, a hard drive, etc., as easily as stacking Legos on top of Legos.
Gone are the days when we took photos with a Polaroid, a camera that instantly printed our photo. Although its days seem to have passed, Polaroid is making a comeback. At the consumer electronics and household appliances fair IFA in Berlin, it was recently presented as a digital camera with a built-in photo printer that prints a photo instantly, but does not use ink! It sounds like the name Polaroid Snap.