Sweat, ick. It betrays our nervousness, leaves unsightly blotches on our clothes, drips down our faces, and makes us stink. Sure, it cools us when we overheat, but most of the time we think of it purely as an inconvenience.
We may soon, however, learn to like our sweat a lot more—or at least what it can reveal about our health. We’d certainly prefer giving a doctor a little sweat to being punctured for a blood test—or even providing a urine sample—as long as we didn’t have to run a mile or sit in a sauna to do it. And if sweat could provide constant updates about our bodies’ reactions to a medication, or track head trauma in athletes, we might just start to appreciate it.
A material that simultaneously reflects light and radiates heat at frequencies that vent it through the Earth’s atmosphere could one day help cool buildings on hot days. The material cools itself to a temperature below the ambient air, and has been tested on a rooftop at Stanford University by its inventors, who are now working on scaling up the design.
The new material uses optical engineering tricks to behave in ways that are counterintuitive and, at first glance, appear to violate the laws of thermodynamics, says Stanford electrical engineer Shanhui Fan, who developed it.
If Will.i.am can have a futuristic, high-tech backpack that charges his devices and amplifies music, there’s no reason why the average person can’t have high-tech luggage that’s a bit better adjusted to everyday life.
Enter Bluesmart, a self-weighting, auto-locking, device-charging suitcase that’s raised almost $1.4 million in funding through its Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
Las compañías norteamericanas que explotan campos de hidrocarburos no convencionales reducen los permisos para perforar nuevos pozos en pleno desplome del precio del petróleo.
Proyecto de explotación de 'fracking' en Dakota del Norte.
Los bancos han prorrogado hasta el 19 de diciembre el plazo para negociar la refinanciación de la deuda de Amper, después de que el grupo Sherpa renunciara a comprar la compañía.
Amper ha comunicado a la Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) que ha alcanzado un acuerdo con los bancos para prorrogar hasta el próximo 19 de diciembre el plazo para alcanzar un acuerdo de refinanciación de su deuda de 127 millones de euros.
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City Hall. It's traditionally the place where technology gets stuffed into a drawer and forgotten. But as budgets recover from the Great Recession and smartphone-toting citizens prod municipal officials, cities are now more Boston Dynamics than Boss Tweed. Soon the pols will be promising sensor-driven pots that cook the chicken for you, just the way you like it.
1. Graffiti-busting drones. The Deutsche Bahn, Germany's railroad, is testing drones to see if they deter graffiti artists, after taggers did $9 million in damage to its railcars in 2012 alone.
The promise of bringing the doctor’s office directly to one’s home or digital device is spurring a wave of investment into the growing telehealth market. According to CB Insights data, 2014 YTD has already seen the highest amount of funding of any year to the telehealth, or telemedicine, space since at least 2007.
Over the past couple years, both Nokia Growth Partners and Intel Capital announced separate $100M Connected Car Funds. Is the promise of universally connected and intelligent vehicles closer to becoming a reality?
According to the data, investments to companies in and around the connected car space are indeed gaining traction among both venture capital and corporate investors. Firms tracked in the connected car market within the CB Insights database include a range of technologies, covering:
