If you often forget to remove sweaty clothes from your backpack after exercising, this curious invention will charm you: it is called Paqsule and it is a gym bag that washes your clothes from the gym and also charges your mobile phone. What do you think? Paqsule is equipped with a natural cleaning technology based on the use of UV-C LED lights and O3, also known as medicinal ozone or activated oxygen, which are techniques widely used in industrial, sanitary facilities and sports professionals to clean and sanitize the clothing,…
Read MoreCategory: New Tech
The smart jacket from Google and Levi’s will arrive in autumn
Two years, after announcing its development plans of interactive and connected textiles, the company has confirmed that the smart jacket of Google and Levi’s will start shipping this fall and will cost $350. The launch date and price have come to light at the SXSW festival which was held in Austin, where Ivan Poupyrev, Head of the technical team of Google ATAP (Advanced Technology and Projects) and Paul Dillinger, head of Levi’s Global innovation took the stage to shed more light on their first smart clothes; this product has new…
Read MoreBreaking2, the new project of Nike: do technological doping?
Running the 42-mile and 195-meter marathon in less than two hours was and still a dream, though it may not be for long. Nike has announced the launch of Breaking2, an innovative project that pulls technology to achieve this almost inhuman record. The man who closer has been to achieve this goal is Dennis Kimetto, who with 2 hours and 2 minutes is still far from the record that now wants to achieve Nike. This athlete is not part of the team chosen by the brand to face this challenge,…
Read MoreYou can now buy the world’s first smart condom
The box in which the i.Con Smart Condom is distributed includes a notice that with their purchase are acquiring “the world’s first intelligent condom”; its logo (a condom coated with circuits) helps to reinforce that impression. A good marketing strategy, but that is not entirely correct: it is actually a ring that is placed on the condom for a lifetime and helps its user both monitor their activity and genital performance and detect some diseases of Sexual transmission.
Read MoreTesla will improve its radar to avoid accidents in the standalone mode
After the fatal accident last June, Tesla has decided to make better use of the integrated radar to detect cars or trucks…. Last June a person died in a traffic accident in the US, nothing unusual if you have statistics on hand. But in this case the accident was special because the driver was in a new Tesla Model S activated with the autopilot system. The combination of a blind spot and the driver was distracted though technically not lead, provoked a big fuss that doubted on this type of…
Read MoreCowarobot R1, robotic suitcase that follows you wherever you go
The “smart” bags are fashionable. For some reason the idea of a suitcase can be connected to our mobile phone is something that people are looking for, especially by the idea that to be connected, it will be always localized. Thus was born the Bluesmart suitcase, but now there is an innovation that goes beyond with Cowarobot R1, the suitcase that follows you. This is literal, the suitcase is able to follow through that is connected to your phone that always carry with you. Surely not see at first glance…
Read MoreNissan will launch its first car with autopilot
The manufacturer Nissan Motor announced the launch in August its first driverless car, the first range media with this type of system and the most comprehensive to date, according to the company. The firm revealed in the global presentation of the new generation of its Serena model the ProPilot technology, which through a single front camera and various sensors detects the movement of the vehicle in front of it and, according to the same one, without the intervention of the driver, it accelerates, brakes and even stops. Through this system,…
Read MoreA bracelet to correct bad habits
If the credit card account is not enough to correct the compulsion for purchases, now there is a new – and dramatic – option. The British company Intelligent Environments developed a system consisting of a virtual platform that links to Pavlok smart bracelet to send small electrical shock to the wrist of the user when expenses exceed the desired level. Pavlok, bracelet correcting bad habits like smoking, nail biting or spend a lot of time online, now is also a guardian takes care of pockets. The Intelligent Environments system access…
Read MoreA pistol-shaped iPhone, latest weapons in the US?
In the market there are covers for iPhones and smartphones that can turn them into anything. Some even weapon shaped. And these are quite realistic. But it had never occurred to the contrary, that a weapon had the form of a Mobile phone. Until today, of course. Because the Ideal Conceal Pistol, recently filed in the US, it seems, at first glance, a next-generation smartphone. But it’s a 9 mm small caliber pistol as deadly as any other one. The gun, which is designed to go on sale for $395…
Read MoreA notebook to write, erase in the microwave and rewrite
The notebook is called RocketBook Wave. And it is intended as a temporary scorer, relied on technology to protect their content, rather than in a notebook that is preserved for years and years: it is a twist to the classic scorer that we carry from one side to another and that once depleted its pages, we throw away or not return to open ever. The idea of Rocketbook is not that what on its pages is noted down remains written there for years, but that task falls to a smartphone:…
Read More