security

An innovative safety fence that will save lives on the road

Although guardrails often prevent the worst, they are far from ideal. The Korean company Shindo Industry has recently introduced movable guardrails, which are supposed to help mitigate traffic accidents, because unlike classic guardrails, they absorb the impact.

Cars Mobility

Mercedes with a new safety measure in the event of an accident - "pink noise" for hearing protection

Mercedes has introduced the unusual safety innovation Pre-Safe Sound, which will be part of their latest E-class cars. It is this pink noise that operates at a frequency of 80 decibels and is triggered milliseconds before the activation of air proximity, and is supposed to prevent hearing damage in the event accidents that can be caused by cracking and groaning of sheet metal.

Cars Mobility

Euro NCAP celebrates 20 years or How car safety has advanced

All the best Euro NCAP! You may be wondering why there is so much excitement over the fact that the car safety testing organization Euro NCAP is celebrating 20 years. It is to a large extent responsible for the fact that our cars are so safe today, as it drives car brands to try to do even more in the field of safety. Euro NCAP is a kind of our guardian angel on the roads and, as it boasts, it has saved more than 78 thousand lives since 1997. Are you interested in car safety 20 years ago and today? Then be sure to watch the video comparing the crash safety of a car of the latest date and a car from the late 1990s.

Mobility

Euro NCAP: these are the safest cars of 2015

Are you wondering which are the safest cars in 2015? Euro NCAP has published a list of the safest cars of the past year. For this, he broke a bunch of new or refurbished models that were on the European market in 2015. We present to you the safest cars of 2015 by individual class.

Applications

Best apps for better smartphone security and privacy

The digital world can be a scary place, haunted by the virtual equivalent of monsters – hackers. If we want our phone to defend our data from all these horrors, then maybe it's time to think about capable applications specialized in encryption and protection. Here are the apps that will make our smartphone more secure.

Viral Health

How to get rid of annoying wasps in a friendly way? #trick

Did you also get the feeling that wasps are particularly annoying this year? This has driven many people indoors instead of enjoying breakfast in the garden, balcony or terrace. Many people don't let it bother them, but the fact is that pimples can be very uncomfortable and even dangerous for some. So how do we get rid of annoying wasps? Simple. All we need is a brown paper bag, some old newspaper and some tape or string.

Tech

Kingii - a wrist device that prevents drowning

You know the one. Someone offers you a bulky orange life jacket and you politely decline it. I can swim, you think, and besides, you'd look ridiculous. But in the USA alone, 83 percent of the people who drowned in 2013 were not wearing it, and as many as 370,000 people drown in the world every year! Handy wearable device Kingii aims to reduce this bleak statistic by reinventing lifelines. It is a wrist device that uses a CO2 bomb. In case of danger, it inflates a hidden cushion that keeps a person afloat for up to 48 hours.

Gadgets

Cyclee – a cycling projector that makes cycling safer

We can never do too much for the safety of cyclists when they share space with cars, so there is a welcome innovation called Cyclee, a bicycle projector that is mounted on the seat post and projects light signs on the back of the cyclist to alert drivers to actions cyclist. The possibility of an accident for a cyclist is 26 to 48 times higher than for a driver of a personal vehicle, so cyclists must be even more careful. Cyclee is a big step towards keeping black stats pretty much empty.

Destinations

Safe on the trip - how to ensure safety on the trip?

In Maslow's hierarchy of needs, security is one of the basic requirements that a person must fulfill. Whatever we do, we always want to be safe. Likewise, safety should not be neglected when traveling. And we are not only talking about the insurance that we can get when booking a flight, but also about the weaknesses of our destination and the things that we need to consider in order to be as safe as possible on our trip. Here are tips on how to stay safe while traveling.

Architecture & Interior Gadgets

Canary - a smart device that protects your house better than cameras and a watchdog

Keeping our home safe shouldn't be scary, frustrating or complicated. So meet Canary, a home security system packed into a single cute smart device that you can control from your smartphone. It has a built-in HD camera, microphone, motion sensor, alarm (with a sound intensity of more than 90 dB), night view, temperature, air quality and humidity meter, and Wi-Fi technology. With this in the apartment, you can be completely calm when you are away.

Architecture & Interior Tech

Nest Cam: surveillance camera and smoke detector in one

The arrival of the Nest Cam device was somewhat expected, if we remember that Nest, which was founded by two former Apple people, recently bought the company DropCam. Nest has already controlled your home heating thermostat and detected smoke and carbon monoxide, and the Nest Cam also keeps an eye on the house like a watchdog. It is a direct descendant of the DropCam Pro camera, but slimmer, with a resolution of 1080p (the predecessor was capable of 720p), with a night view and an online service that allows you to follow the action anywhere in the world.

Tech

Ouch! Google now lets you download your entire search history

If you want to learn secrets from someone, there's no need for alcohol vapor to be involved anymore, just comb through their Google search history. This one, especially since it includes Google services like Gmail, Google+, Google Maps and YouTube, is pretty telling and not something you want your parents or potential partners to see. So it's a bit surprising that Google has offered the option to download your entire search history.

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