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The Series II Expedition Tent keeps you and your motorbike safe from the elements

Tents

Series II Expedition Tent provides shelter for you and your motorbike

The Series II Expedition Tent by Redverz Gear can keep a rider, a motorbike, and a friend or two safe from the elements.

The handheld Electromagnetic Harvester allegedly charges a AA battery using just the electromagnetic fields given off by gadgets, power lines, vehicles, and even living things

Electronics

Electromagnetic Harvester claims to charge batteries with ambient energy

The handheld Electromagnetic Harvester allegedly charges a AA battery using just the electromagnetic fields given off by gadgets, power lines, vehicles, and even living things.

UK-based Biobot has introduced a simple chemical reactor for converting used kitchen oils into biodiesel fuel at home (Photo: Shutterstock)

Environment

BioBot 20 countertop diesel processor converts waste cooking oil into biodiesel

The BioBot 20 tabletop diesel processor is a (relatively) simple chemical reactor for converting used kitchen oils into biodiesel fuel at home.

The nanoparticle with a core of the element actinium, surrounded by four layers of material and a gold outer layer

Wellness and Healthy Living

Gold nanoparticle could allow powerful alpha particles to join cancer fight

Researchers have created gold nanoparticles that allow an alpha particle-emitting element to be directed to small cancer tumors.

The Aedas-designed Al Bahr Towers (Image: Aedas)

Architecture

Modernizing the mashrabiya: Smart-skinned Al Bahar Towers near completion

Nearing completion, the Aedas-designed Al Bahar Towers are partly coated in an intelligent outer skin that can adapt to the position of the sun, and which is inspired by the traditional mashrabiyas of Arabic architecture.

Using a Welly as a phone on a day when you would wear a Welly may not be a well considered decision

Mobile Technology

Paging Maxwell Smart – O2's line of upcycled shoe phones

To publicize their cell phone recycling program, British cellular service provider O2 has upcycled some old phones to create a line of shoe phones.

Takara Tomy's Auto Mee S can clean a tablet screen in about 8 minutes

Mobile Technology

Auto Mee S mini robot cleans your tablet so you don't have to

Takara Tomy has unveiled a new robot toy that cleans your smartphone or tablet screen.

CEO of Innovationsmanufaktur Prof. Eckehard Fozzy Moritz using the GEWOS armchair for rowing practice (Photo: ©Innovationsmanufaktur GmbH)

Body and Mind

The armchair turned fitness trainer

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed an armchair designed to give the elderly health and fitness advice ... and a workout.

The Pedestal Stand for iPad could make toilet trips more fun by providing a hands-free platform for your tablet

Around The Home

Pedestal Stand for iPad brings technology to toilet trips

The Pedestal Stand for iPad from CTA Digital provides a hands-free way of using your tablet on the toilet.

The Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen will have no exterior walls in its middle floor, to create a large viewing deck, and the elevators will be located on the side instead of the center to allow for more creative office designs

Architecture

China's Essence Financial Building ditches traditional form for better function

The Essence Financial Building in Shenzhen will have no exterior walls in its middle floor, to create a large viewing deck, and the elevators will be located on the side instead of the center to allow for more creative office designs.

Diabetes

Scientists use gene therapy to cure dogs of type 1 diabetes

Scientists from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have cured dogs of type 1 diabetes using gene therapy.

$Micro Color Splitters work by separating colors at a microscopic scale using diffraction, rather than filtration$

Photography

Panasonic's Micro Color Splitter could double a camera's color sensitivity

Panasonic's new Micro Color Splitter technology could replace the color filters used in most digital cameras.

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