Healthcare and technology, through mutual cooperation, contribute to the development of many products that help in the treatment of diseases. What can we expect from them in the future?
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People travel the world to see natural waterfalls, but the Chinese create artificial, man-made, 'falling water' on 100-meter skyscrapers. Someone obviously had a crazy idea.
Is your work in a loud office? A river of cars is driving past the building, colleagues are talking loudly all the time, the radio is loud, and you urgently need to get together? You probably cover your ears, but what when you need deadlines to work. Don't worry, the Ukrainian design studio Hochu Rayu has come up with a solution. It's called Helmfon.
Are you also annoyed when you have to sit in a hot car again and again in the summer? But you may be able to prevent it, and without a large financial investment. Meet Lanmodo, the car shade that makes sure you'll never sit in a sauna-like cabin again.
We are used to turning on the lights with a switch, more and more of them can be turned on with smartphones, and in the future we may be able to turn them on by voice command. Well, Xinyue Yang has chosen a different way of turning the light on and off, which offers similar effects as a dimmer, except that instead of using a keyboard, the brightness is determined with your breath.
Flying cars grow like mushrooms after the rain. Google co-founder Larry Page also believes that they will soon become commonplace, having invested fabulous sums of money in companies from Silicon Valley - Zee.Aero and Kitty Haw - the amount is close to 100 million euros. Recently, on the social network, he showed the first serious fruits of their labor, more precisely the company Kitty Haw. Meet the flying car Kitty Hawk Flyer, which successfully passed the first test and will be available for purchase in 2017.
The Solarcan is probably the strangest camera you've ever seen. The can-shaped camera allows you to capture a photo with a long exposure time.
Don't let the name fool you. The Swedish Museum of Failure, which opens in Helsingborg on June 7, 2017, will not make fun of failure, on the contrary, it will celebrate human creativity. It will initially exhibit 51 products that failed ingloriously and ended up on the pyre of history, some of them perhaps even unjustly. Let's see what author Samuel West has prepared for us.
Bonds are among the more fundamental medical devices. Thanks to the University of Swansea, they now have a brain. Smart dressings with 5G connectivity and the ability to monitor wound healing are expected to revolutionize healthcare. They should be available by the end of 2017.
Taking photos in the rain is not the easiest thing in the world. If you want to protect your photography equipment, you usually have to use an umbrella, which comes with a lot of limitations. You can solve this problem with Nubrella's innovative no-hold umbrella. It covers the upper part of the body, is light and is carried on the shoulder, which means that we have both hands free.
Do you find it difficult to concentrate at work? Although it seems that it is a modern problem, for which social networks are mainly to blame, disturbing elements at work have been encountered in the past. Today, there are tons of gadgets that help us stay focused on the task at hand, but even in the past, they had an answer, in the form of a spacesuit device called The Isolator.
Sustainable or more environmentally friendly packaging has become a global trend. One of the companies that strives to create packaging that has as little impact on the environment as possible is the British Skipping Rocks Lab, which has produced edible and degradable Ooho water balls that could soon replace water bottles.