Minimod small home designed with flexibility in mind
January 27, 2014
Though embracing small footprint living doesn't always
require one deal with a challenging interior layout, a compact home
that's designed to be flexible certainly bodes well for a harmonious
lifestyle. It would appear that MAPA Architects had this in mind with
its Minimod (or Minimal Modular) prototype home, which sports an
adaptable interior layout comprising four living spaces. Read More
3D printer manufacturer Stratasys has launched
what it says is the first 3D printer that can print both in color and
with multiple materials. The Objet500 Connex3 combines droplets of three
base materials to produce a variety of different material
characteristics and colors. Read More
For those people unprepared to learn to scuba
dive, snorkeling is a great way to explore the water while remaining
close to the surface. The main problem with it is that it forces the
swimmer to breathe through only their mouth, which can feel unnatural.
Tribord's new Easybreath mask aims to solve that problem, by allowing
natural breathing through the nose or mouth. Read More
Although all sorts of people enjoy boating, not
everyone wants to go blasting across the waves in a noisy speedboat. If
you're more content with quietly cruising the waterways, then you might
like Sky-Yacht's electric Joyboat. We recently spied the watercraft, at
the Dusseldorf boat show. Read More
As part of the Singapore Biennale
2013, a group of artists has created a maze filled with life-sized,
three-dimensional, dancing holograms of people and animals, capable of
reacting to a person's presence. Read More 
The months following a console launch are often a
defining period in the life cycle of a console, and there's one thing
that every platform owner dreads – the game drought. Nintendo's Wii U
suffered from a lack of quality software in the months following its
release, as did the PlayStation 3 before it. Luckily, things don't look
so bleak for Sony and Microsoft's new platforms, with a wealth of new
titles hitting current (last?) and next (current?) gen systems alike.
Read More
In mid-2015, the asteroid probe Dawn
is scheduled to establish orbit around Ceres, the only dwarf planet in
the inner Solar System, as well as the largest asteroid, to begin
roughly six months of close-up observation. The level of interest in
this mission has significantly increased with the detection by the ESA's
Herschel space observatory of plumes of water vapor being exuded from
Ceres' surface from a pair of local sources. Read More
A team of interdisciplinary researchers have
created "smart" holograms that can monitor health conditions or diagnose
diseases, by changing color in the presence of disease indicators in a
person's breath or bodily fluids. When developed into a portable medical
test, these responsive holograms could make testing for medical
conditions and monitoring one's health very easy, the scientists claim.
Read More
When a patient can't breathe through
their mouth or nose, often the only way of getting air to their lungs
is to perform a tracheotomy. This involves making an incision in the
trachea, and inserting a breathing tube through it. Now, scientists are
creating a device to streamline the process. Read More 
A new weight-loss device that patients swallow
and is then inflated inside the stomach to accelerate the sensation of
fullness when eating has been launched in the UK. Obalon is a gastric
balloon that benefits patients by being relatively noninvasive in
comparison to others that require surgery. Read More
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