La empresa cooperativa ubicada en Aretxabaleta (Gipuzkoa) Copreci ha desarrollado un nuevo motor de recirculación para lavavajillas basado en tecnología BLDC, que supone un paso más en la ampliación del catálogo de producto.
I’m usually cautious about Kickstarter campaigns, but when the data looks right I’m encouraged to peer deeper. Haruumi Shiode reached out to me with his CleanTech concept for a product called the Remo (which remotely controls wall unit air conditioners), and I have to admit the numbers looked interesting even though this is a business model I would have never considered.
Living here in the Midwest amidst routine central air conditioning and heating, it’s easy to forget that this may not be the experience everyone has.
Not too long ago, the term “distracted driving” probably referred to kids in the back seat fighting, causing the driving parent to shout: “Don’t make me pull this car over and come back there!”
Today, distracted driving has taken on a whole new meaning, typically involving the driver’s use of a cell phone or other electronic device to text or check social networks or navigation apps. Distracted driving can be visual (taking your eyes off the road), manual (taking your hands off the wheel) or cognitive (taking your mind off of driving).
Uhoo is launching a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a new app-based air-quality sensor for the home. It is the latest gadget to join the trend for the Internet of Things, or making everyday objects smart and connected.
Munich-based Tado, maker of smart thermostat and AC control products, has raised another $23 million for further international expansion. The new investment is led by Inven Capital, the venture capital arm of the Čez Group, a multinational energy conglomerate based in the Czech Republic. It’s the startup’s third funding round and brings the total raised to $57 million since being founded in 2011.
We have already seen facial recognition technology being used in Japan, where 3D mug shots help police better identify criminals. Now, a new police SUV in China is being fitted with 360-degree cameras that will use facial recognition to search for criminals.
Developed at the University of Electronic Science and Technology, the camera will help keep track of criminals by scanning faces within a 60-meter radius of the car. It then compares the gender, age and race of the faces and analyzes it against police databases.
ll over the world, air pollution is thought to be blamed for a host of diseases — cancer, birth defects, and many more. And despite efforts by authorities to reduce pollution in industrialized areas — such as Haifa, Israel — the problem persists and seems to be getting worse.
One reason for that, according to Israeli optics technology firm Opgal, is that authorities are looking in the wrong place: Instead of examining the towers that spew out smoke, what needs to be checked are the joints on the pipes that transport gas, oil, and chemicals.
We’ve written about a number of air purifiers before, but Sprimo is taking a different approach — instead of trying to clean all the air in the room, it creates a personalized stream of clean air for individual users.
You depend on Amazon, Microsoft and Google much more than you know. As businesses and governments move more of their underpinnings into the cloud, the three leading cloud providers are becoming the invisible foundation of daily life.
