Tuesday Two: Tracking balls

Bounce, bounce aroundThe aptly name  Bounce Imaging Explorer is a throwable camera that allows you to see around corners simply by rolling or throwing it into the area.  Great for cops, firefighters, and military.

trakdotYou can track yourself, your kids, your phone and your car.  Now you track your luggage with Trakdot.  This device can send  text messages, emails or updates to an app.  This allows you to know where luggage is, even if the airline doesn’t.

Tuesday Two: powering eyes

Polyplus propel potentional power, providing pertinent p…oh…nevermind.  Polyplus new technology will allow for “ultra-high energy density [lithium] batteries ” to significantly increase battery charge.  This will allow cellphones and many other devices longer times of operation between rechargings.

A microchip may soon be available from the minds at MIT that will allow blind people to acheive some level of sight.  It’s not a full site, but “blind person to recognize faces and navigate a room without assistance.”

Tuesday Two: saves lives, makes lives

Tuesday Two

Sipuleucel-T is new treatment from Dendreon that uses the body’s own immune system to fight prostate cancer.   Each dose is personalized by consisting of the patient’s own immune cells that have been trained to seek and attack prostate cancer cells.

Who knew this was even an issue.  Broken lobster traps sometimes break free from tethers and wash up on beaches and riverfront properties in Maine.  Too expensive and bulky to haul off, Kim Boehm created the Trapzilla as a convenient way to compact the traps to a manageable size.

 

Epoch fail

The Wedding Countdown Bra puts a clock on a bra to let….well, I’m not really sure what the countdown supposed to encourage.  It signifies the countdown to when the wedding ring is placed on the wearer’s finger.  Ironically, press vidoes and images all show the model with an engagement ring instead.  Nothing says “Marry me!” more than a countdown to wedding bells attached to a bra.

Tuesday Two: Nano Power Power

Tuesday Two

mPhase's nanobatterymPhase’s superhydrophobic porous silicon membrane nanotechnology based battery is much smaller and lasts longer traditional batteries.

 

Offshore-Windpark Lillgrund - Öresund-Brücke / Lillgrund OffshorLet’s replace off-shore oil rigs with off-shore wind farms!  Many Siemens AG wind turbines are found the Lillgrund Wind Farm, located about 10 km off the coast of southern Sweden.

 

 

Tuesday Two: Shingle ingestion

Tuesday Two

shinglepicDow will soon make a roof shingle that generates solar power.  It’s called DOW POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle.  Home and business owners will soon have more options to help power their homes, businesses and occasional gazebo.  Viva Sol!

 

pillsthermoCorTemp Ingestible Core Body Thermometer Pill isn’t just a mouthful of words, it’s actually a  thermometer that you swallow!  Once the pill is ingested, a quartz crystal sensor vibrates at a frequency that is relative to the body’s temperature.  This creates a low-level signal that can be detected outside of the body.