AirPop’s Active+ Smart Mask Tracks Your Breathing Like Fitbit Tracks Your Steps
AirPop’s Active+ Smart Mask Tracks Your Breathing Like Fitbit Tracks Your Steps
With the Active+ Smart Mask, AirPop brings Fitbit-style health tracking to your face, but instead of being all about steps and calories, it’s about your breathing and air quality. Face masks have become part of everyday life over the last year, and even when the coronavirus pandemic passes, many may consider wearing a mask more often, and AirPop has given you a reason to choose a more high-tech version…
Samsung Made a Solar-Charging Eco Remote for Its Latest TVs
With its 2021 lineup of 4K and 8K QLED TVs, Samsung is introducing a new Eco Remote Control that the company claims will “reduce tons of plastic waste per year” and further its efforts to reduce its environmental impact…
Artificial Intelligence Finds Hidden Roads Threatening Amazon Ecosystems
(Inside Science) — It took years of painstaking work for Carlos Souza and his colleagues to map out every road in the Brazilian Amazon biome. Official maps of the 4.2 million-square-kilometer region only show roads built by federal and local governments. But by carefully tracing lines on satellite images, the researchers concluded in 2016 that the true length of all the roads combined was nearly 13 times higher…
Institute Breaks Transmission World Record With 125,000 Gbps Using an Optical Fiber
Researchers from the Network System Research Institute of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan) have achieved the world’s first transmission exceeding 1 petabit per second (125,000 Gbps) in a single-core multi-mode optical fiber. This beats the current record transmission in a multi-mode fiber by 2.5 times…
Apple and Hyundai Hope to Reach Deal for Apple Car by March, Begin US Production in 2024
More details have emerged about Apple’s alleged interest in working on a self-driving electric car in partnership with Hyundai Motor. A report from local newspaper Korea IT News (via Reuters) today suggests that Hyundai and Apple plan to sign a partnership deal by March of this year…
Exaeris AcquaTap Can Create 3.5 to 5 Gallons of Fresh Drinking Water per Day Out of Thin Air
By 2030, the Earth’s population is expected to be around 9 billion, as humanity swells to flood every bit of dry land across the planet. The world will require 40% more fresh water than it has today, according to the 2030 Water Resources Group. And the amount of drinkable water that’s going to be created for all these thirsty bodies? Exactly zero … unless we can leverage the vast, unseen resources that exist all around us…
Meet Au-Spot, the AI Robot Dog That’s Training to Explore Caves on Mars
Mars exploration is going to the dogs. The robot dogs, that is…