Industrial designer Roy Harpaz had two things in mind when designing the vertical turntable "Toc" - he wanted to design a functional and at the same time stylish product.
Sleeping with headphones has never been the healthiest. But Kokooon EEG are not ordinary headphones. Developed in collaboration with Onkyo, they are designed so that we can wear them overnight without any worries, while at the same time the headphones reduce the noise around us and monitor our sleep through sensors.
Driving on the highway can be very stressful, especially if we are on it in the most crowded conditions, behind trucks, when we can't see anything in front of us. That's why the Samsung company came up with the great idea of "Safety Truck", which could bring much more safety in road traffic.
Children are spending less and less time with their parents because of modern devices, so anything that encourages children to bond with their parents would be beneficial for them. Emotionally and physically. Faced with this fact, the Canadian agency Grip Limited came up with an interesting idea that would bring children closer to their parents. The TieFi tie, which is also a portable wireless access point.
If plants thrive, why not technology? That is, converting sunlight into energy. The Ginkgo solar charger, which was "raised" by XD Design and which addresses the growing need for charging mobile devices and green politics, was inspired by them or solar cells. The idea for the design grew from the tall, lanky, sparsely branched and long-lived ginkgo tree, which Charles Darwin called a living fossil. With the difference that this Ginkgo has a built-in lithium battery with a capacity of 4000 mAh.
So, you have a GoPro camera and a thirst for underwater footage. Unless you're wearing scuba gear, you probably won't be able to take your action camera exactly deep below the surface. That's where the Seawolf unmanned submarine from TT Robotix steps in. It has a built-in waterproof housing for the camera, which can withstand up to a depth of 10 meters and can wirelessly send a live image either to a smartphone or some other screen. This is thanks to the mini-ship with which the submarine is connected and floats on the surface.
BOLD Knot is a mobile battery for both iPhone and Android that will ensure that we have a smartphone charger at hand when we need it most. With the mobile battery, which is elegantly hidden in a beautifully designed knot, we will add three more hours of operation to our phone battery. With the BOLD Knot, we can go anywhere, and it works very well as a key ring and, believe it or not, also as a toy for cats.
... or in this case, the will of the investors, because Flike is ready to fly into the sky together with a person, if only the investors will smell the potential in the next stage of the evolution of unmanned aircraft. Flike is the first drone that we will be able to ride and has already successfully passed the first test flights with a human on board. The project, which emerged in 2014, is behind a group of aviation enthusiasts at Bay Zoltan Nonprofit Ltd., the largest applied research institute in Hungary.
It somehow seems logical for Tesla to offer home batteries, but it was a little less to be expected from Mercedes-Benz. Thus, Tesla's Powerwall home battery is now joined by a home battery from a car brand owned by the Daimler conglomerate. It will offer batteries with a three-pointed star on the "chest" as early as September 2015. These were also originally developed for Mercedes electric vehicles, but now households will also benefit from them for producing their own electricity from renewable energy sources.
National Geographic dedicated a recent episode of the mini-series American Genius to Bill Gates and the late Steve Jobs. Despite the fact that their "children", the brands Microsoft and Apple, do not have much in common at the level of company policy, this does not apply to their "father", who share many characteristics on a personal level. Both were visionaries, both had great ambitions, business acumen, a competitive spirit and a sharp mind. National Geographic therefore prepared a timeline between 1974 and 1999, comparing the ups and downs of the careers of two giants who changed the world forever.
We spend hours a day at computers, and while the things we look at and operate on have drastically improved over the years, the keyboard, an indispensable tool of computers, has persisted in its form for almost 100 years! Don't we deserve better? Keyboardio therefore reinvents the keyboard. Their butterfly-shaped Model 01 keyboard is thus not only ergonomically designed, but also fully customizable. You can pre-order it on Kickstarter.
The Slovenian SipSup glass is the first social glass in the world, as it connects to a smartphone and serves us memories in addition to a drink. Miha Petek, Anže Volovšek and Aleš Perme are behind the project of the interactive glass, and the glasses themselves are made in Steklarna Hrastnik and are not only technologically sophisticated, but also of high quality. The success of the Kickstarter campaign, where SipSup will raise startup funds for 42 days, seems imminent.