Keeping an eye on crops is essential to ensuring for farmers, but it is also time consumer and difficult. A new crop of autonomous robots like AGRowBot are being adopted by small and medium-sized farms to rove around and keep tabs on crop health including weeds, pests and disease. This allows independent farmers to spot problems far faster than...
Bobby Watts of Orlando, Florida has built the world's first digital 360-degree drone billboard. An avid model aircraft enthusiast, Watts was inspired to build the UAV-billboard by observing people's amazed reactions upon first encountering a drone being piloted. The billboard, which Watts calls "Drobotron", was stationed in front of Orlando's...
The new Nokia 105 has no camera or fancy features. Like other producers, attention is turning to cellphones that have few features, other than making calls and sending text messages. The new Nokia 105 comes in three color options including black, blue and white, and is set to retail at just USD $15. Cheap phones like these make great "burner"...
A tech startup on a mission to make modern commercial and housing estates energy neutral has outfitted the headquarters of a Dutch bank with the world’s first commercial, fully transparent solar-power-generating windows.
A close-up photo of one of Physee’s installed PowerWindows at Amsterdam’s main business district. Image Source: Jasper...
The Blast Baseball system consists of both hardware and software. The physical device itself is a small sensor that attaches to the knob of any baseball bat via a form-fitting rubber cap. No bigger than one's thumb, players will hardly notice the sensor once it's affixed to their bat, but it can track a host of key advanced metrics like swing...
Technology and heat often leads to devices overheating and subsequently losing their ability to work, so the Bluetooth Solar Headphones aim to change this with a design that is sun-friendly. The headphones are implemented with a series of solar cells on the incorporated neck piece in order to soak up energy from the UV rays that hit it when you...
Losing your luggage when traveling is a headache to say the least, so the Tumi Global Locator is intended to provide travelers with a way to effectively keep a keener eye on their gear. The device works by being placed in virtually any piece of luggage and instantly going to work to track your luggage when you're flying, on a bus or stopped at...
Technology company Pavegen has unveiled the world’s first “Smart Street” in London’s West End that utilizes the company’s unique kinetic paving slabs to generate energy from pedestrians’ footsteps. But unlike earlier Pavegen installations deployed in cities like Washington DC and Rio de Janeiro (which uses the panels as the foundation for a...
Kayak is the first online travel player to let shoppers book hotels via Amazon's smart speakers. While the concept has promise, its price comparison process still has to improve before it becomes useful to the average traveler. The rise of voice-based search poses a huge strategic challenge. The brevity that voice search requires incentivizes...
A new app called Walk Mode was released for Samsung users in India to alert them before they walk into walls or traffic