As so-called smartwatches become more smart and
less watch, they run the risk of losing some of the latter's charm and
style. Building on the success of its Cookoo "connected complication"
that combined analog movement with a connected digital display, Hong
Kong's ConnecteDevice has released two versions of a new Cogito model – a
Classic dress watch and a fun-loving design named Pop. Gizmag stopped
by the company's booth at Baselworld in Switzerland for a closer look.
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Scientists at MIT are developing
hybrid materials that are a cross between living bacterial cells and
non-living components such as gold nanoparticles or quantum dots. The
resulting "living materials" are able to respond to their environment
like regular living cells, while also doing things like conducting
electricity or emitting light. Read More 
A 22-year-old woman has had the whole top of her
skull replaced with a customized 3D-printed implant. The patient had
been suffering from severe symptoms as a result of a condition that
causes a thickening of the skull. It is believed that the procedure was
the first of its kind. Read More
Israeli solar plant is now 100 percent self-cleaning
By Stu Robarts
March 31, 2014
The dusty desert environments where many solar
plants are located can make their photovoltaic arrays dirty and reduce
their effectiveness. Cleaning the panels can be a time-consuming and
expensive process. An Israeli solar plant is now said to be the first to
have fully-automated cleaning in place. Read More
Forget the "Shard," the "Walkie Talkie" and the
"Cheese Grater," the real revolution in UK buildings is in timber
construction, which saves on build time, carbon emissions and boasts
energy efficiency. One new apartment block in Chelsea is calculated to
use the same energy as a Smart car. Read More
Philips OneSpace turns the whole ceiling into a light
By Stu Robarts
March 31, 2014
In his 1964 New York Times article predicting the
technologies of the future, Isaac Asimov wrote, "By 2014,
electroluminescent panels will be in common use." Lighting panels are
indeed used to make ceilings and walls glow as he guessed. The Philips
OneSpace is the latest such example of Asimov's projections coming to
fruition. Read More
Unveiled at a private event in London last week,
the first design from newly founded David Brown Automotive was made
available to a select few. The Speedback from this new automotive
enterprise, though not associated with Aston Martin’s founder Sir David
Brown (the DB in DB5), takes more than a little artistic license with
its interpretation of the James Bond classic. Read More
The EPA has identified pollution from ships as a
contributing factor to respiratory problems and premature deaths
suffered by residents of the US and Canada. As such, it is in the
process of implementing stricter emissions standards for ships operating
within 200 miles (321.9 km) of shore with the aim of significantly
reducing emissions by the year 2020. In a development that could play
into these environmental initiatives, the SeaChange Group, a US-based
start-up that converts agricultural by-products into clean-burning fuel,
has been awarded a patent for an eco-hybrid fuel technology shown to
reduce NOx, particulate matter and greenhouse gas emissions. Read More
“He loves me… He loves me not,” or the Daisy
Oracle is a game of pulling petals off a flower, usually a daisy, while
intoning the formula that dates back to at least the 15th century as a
way of finding out if someone’s love is true. In a fusing of the 21st
and the 18th centuries, Christophe Claret takes a page out of the golden
age of automata and turns the game into a miniature automaton version
that fits into a lady’s wristwatch. Called the Margot, we had a look at
it at Baselworld 2014 and its mechanism that “predicts” true love based
on the old game of plucking daisies. Read More
For the past few years, Outrider has been earning praise and breaking records with its pedal-assisted electric trikes,
but its latest design is gearing up to be its most rewarding endeavor
yet. The Horizon is a modular adaptive trike designed to get
paraplegics, quadriplegics and others with disabilities wheeling over
pavement and dirt. Outrider's goal is to develop a production trike that
can be pedaled with the legs or hands or powered entirely with an
electric hub motor. Read More
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