Breath-powered charger

AIRE Mask – breath-powered charger for iPhone

Joao Lammoglia created the AIRE, a concept design mask that charges an iPhone by breathing into it. It converts energy from breathing into electricity through tiny wind turbines. AIRE recently won the RedDot Design Award: Best of the Best 2011

Lammoglia explains: The use of renewable energy sources is the most important step we can take for the minimization of environmental damage. Harnessing energy from human activities and transforming it into electrical energy is possible, and is a great solution to such energy issues. AIRE can be used in any situation, indoors or outdoors. It can be used while you sleep, walk, run, or read a book, for example. Besides saving energy (and contributing to environmental preservation), it also encourages the practice of physical exercise. Its energy is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. AIRE won a RedDot Design Award: Best of the Best in 2011.  The mask is only a concept and does not exist at this point in time 

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Quirky desktop organiser

This desktop cable management system that organizes your various computer cables while also keeping them weighted down so they don’t slide off your desk when disconnected. This playful form, small size, makes it a product you’ll love to keep on your desk.

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Spray-On Clothing Technology

Sustainable Spray-On Clothing Technology Turns Into Fabric Instantly. Fabrican is a spray-on fabric technology developed by Imperial College London.The material is made from polymer, and produces washable, re-usable clothing. It may have applications in medicine and industry, as well as aesthetic products.

Just like you’d expect, the liquid turns into this type of fabric the moment it’s sprayed on something. From what I’ve read, this technology is already being used for a variety of purposes. Although it’s not mainstream yet when it comes to spray-on clothing, it is being used for arts and crafts projects and industrial uses. The spray can be applied using a high-pressure spray gun or an aerosol can. The texture of the fabric changes according to the type of material — such as wool, linen or acrylic — and how the spray is layered on the body

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Perfect T-shirt Folder!

Wouldn’t you rather spend more time doing that and less time folding clean laundry? The T-Shirt Folder is kind of the closest thing we have to a time machine. By freeing up the cumulative days you’ve spent folding clothes it gives you more time – it makes time, for you to do all the things you’ve always wanted to do, and it conveniently folds up to be stored in your wardrobe when not in use. AND it will make your mum think you’re the kind of well-adjusted grown up she always hoped you would turn out to be

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Doxie Scanner

Doxie is a different kind of document scanner that scans paper, photos, and receipts anywhere – no computer required. Just charge it up and turn it on, wherever you are – insert your paper, receipts, and photos to scan, archive, and share

Tiny, fast, and rechargeable. Why stay tethered to your computer to scan your paper? Doxie’s tiny size makes it easy to go anywhere — it’s not much wider than a piece of paper. Scans are stored in memory, then synced to your computer the next time you’re at your desk. It’s fast, simple, and easy 

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Apple iRing

This Gadget is unique because its has great concept of Bluetooth ring which has designed by Victor Solo. This ring connectivity with wireless bluetooth of your ipad and iphone. After connected you can play songs, volume control up and down, skip music, and with play and pause function controls on the ring. iRing features as a touch sensitive functions strip

The below image show that how its will look on finger .

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Where’s my drink? – Meet Makr Shakr, Your Friendly Robotic Bartender

Robotics is becoming the talk of the day. We have robotic dragonfly, jellyfish and many other exciting developments. The possibilities with robotics are endless. Believe it or not, they have already taken over industry because of their efficiency and the technological advancement that science is making every minute that passes by. However, there is a certain ‘gap’ between robotics and common people. Perhaps they see it as an ‘alien’ thing which they cannot own or don’t have access to. Robots have been helping out industry for quite some time now. Car industry owes a great deal to robotics for their recent rise in success and bank balance. MIT’s Senseable City Lab is where a certain robot, Makr Shakr, was designed while the designing and implementation goes to Carlo Ratti Associati in Italy, where the actual creation took place

From conceptual stage to functional form in roughly three months, this speedy development is surely an achievement on the hardworking team’s part. So what is Makr Shakr? It is basically your friendly neighborhood robotic bartender which is capable of setting up drinks of your choice. The robot was displayed at Google I/O after party. The robot weighs 5-6 metric tons and was brought via sea in a shipping container. The robot beats all other robotic bartenders as far as advanced robotics is concerned. Users will be required to download an app which can be used to access the robot. Now to “how it works” corner; the user will have access to already existing drink templates or they could create their own drinks . As of now, Makr Shakr has joined hands with Coca Cola and Bacardi, the result of which is simple; two dozen spirits and liqueurs and more than hundred non-alcoholic drinks to select from. Or the user can select the ingredients and quantity of each and make up drinks of 200 ml, afterwards, one may select how they want their drinks prepared; stirred but not shaken.

We will try to keep the next part simple; your order information is basically sent to web server from where it gets transferred to local server on the bot. The Makr Shake divides it into two parts; one is for visualization where the robot displays what’s going on with your drink and the second part goes to the robot’s systems which gets to work to prepare your order. Looking at Makr Shakr,you’lll notice three distinct arms; Kuka KR 16 robots. These are the symbols of industrial revolution and are generally found in paint factories. They are capable of lifting 16 kg, move very fast and have a precision of 0.1 mm. The exterior arms are equipped with cocktail shakers while the inner arm is used for holding the cup and delivering it via conveyor belts. The Makr Shakr is not very fine when it comes to setting up drinks but seeing that its only three months old, it is still quite a decent drink maker. The software is an amazing one and can very easily keep track of alcohol any customer is ordering and using this alcohol consumption can be controlled. Alessandro Incis, Project Manager from Carlo Ratti Associati said; ‘We want to make sure people use the Makr Shakr to drink responsibly. It keeps track of the alcohol by volume of each drink it serves you. It could limit the number of alcoholic drinks each person has in a night.’ Makr Shakr is not intended to replace bartenders but rather to help people get familiarized with robotics and what they are capable of doing.  Yaniv Jacob Turgeman, the project leader (MIT) said; ‘Part of the idea is that anyone can control this powerful technology with something in their pocket.’ Let’s see what the future holds for this robot that is for sure a wonderful piece of engineering.

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