Did you know that Audi has made a car that can physically transform?
The Xiaomi made a robotic dog that is powerful enough to backflip, or that you can get a shoe that prevents you from ever falling.
Welcome to our biggest invention site yet from extraordinary to astronomical to out of this world.
IMPOSSIBLE TAP
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So, let me ask you a question, where is the water coming from here? Well, it took me way longer than I'm going to admit to seeing it. But the answer is by a transparent tube in the middle of the stream. So water comes up his via the inside, goes down by the outside giving the illusion of levitation. I like this but can I only give it a 2 out of 10, just because of how much greater things are about to get?
Let's talk about that for example, the Qooker taps which are more than just showpieces. Since 1992, this company has been making taps as well as being able to deliver normal room temperature water, and with their near models, they're taking it even further providing you're willing to install this extra box. They can also deliver chilled, which could taste like they've come straight from the fridge or even sparkling water literally on tap.
I don't think I've ever talked about this, but one of my favorite non-video games is a pool. So, I was a pretty happy guy when I saw that there is a company that's working on an augmented reality pool using a projector that sits on the table, they've created a system that can overlay environments. It can simulate different animals when balls make contact. It can even show you the trajectory of the shot you're planning. I did initially think, well, that's a bit pointless because you'll always get it in, but thinking about how good a training trail is, think about how fast you could improve if you use this. I can't give it more than a 4 out of 10, though, just because the company hasn't posted an update about it in like, 2years, and so we've got no idea where the project is right now.
LIFT HEXA
Okay, I feel like there are a lot of people who love the idea of flying but are just slightly put off by the factor that training to become a pilot costs over $100,000. Well, worry no more because there is a company called lift that's building an entire fleet of personal drones that they're saying would be allowed to fly without any experience or any supervision. Each one uses no less than 18 separate batteries and 18 propellers. They have so many safety features that they can land even if 6 of them stop working. And even built to be resistant to bird strikes.
This company sees the future as hundreds of thousands of air taxis getting people from A to B while completely avoiding traffic jams. I love the vision but I'm only giving them 4 out of 10 because they've got a hell of a lot convincing to do before this passes regulation.
This is where we step things up a notch. I am, of course, talking about trash cans. This right here is the Titan Trash compactor. It's a bin that once filled, instead of you need to kind of like, take out the bag, empty it, get a new one, you can compress the trash inside such that you can just carry on dumping stuff inside if it. I've been filling this one up over last week to the point where I think most would consider that a fairly full bin. So, let's see how well it works.
That is kind of insane as a very rough estate, I would say that that has doubled the amount of stuff that I can fit into one bin bag which is not just good for me but also the planet. As far as bin tech goes, this is well, not rubbish — 5 out of 10!
Alright, so, I'm yet to meet a person who has told me that they love watching adverts. But you can't knock the fact that they are what allow platforms like this to even function. Ads are going to be a huge part of our society going forward. So, I am kind of, excited about how they might be about to get more interesting thanks to enormous high resolution. panels that can be curved. Companies are now starting to be able to develop ads that can factor in the curvature of these panels to create the perception of moving 3-dimensional images. We're seeing all thoughts of the giant indoor aquarium — a huge cat that sits on top of buildings. It's great for brands because they're going to stand out, and as a viewer, I'm not exactly complaining either. 5 out of 10.
AR ADVERTISING
And related to this, did you watch the football, the EURO 2020s? If you did, you might have noticed these adverts going along the sides of the pitch, they don't seem like anything particularly novel on the face of it. These are augmented reality ads. They're LED boards that's using something called Virtual Digital Replacement Technology (VDRT), which require a complete upgrade for all parts of the recording equipment, can be treated as replaceable objects. So, if I'm watching in any part of the world, I'll see the same ad on them. If you're watching out in India, UK, or anywhere in the world, you're going to see something completely different. Even though this is a live event, it doesn't matter. what angle it's been formed from, it doesn't even matter if someone walks directly in front of them. It's really convincing! As for why? Well, money!
This tech means that instead of just being able to sell one set of ads to one company, they can now offer that same advertising space to many companies at once in every region with the reassurance that these ads will be targeted to the viewers in that company's local market. That's 6 out of 10 thinking right there.
There are a lot of jobs around the world that requires people to stand. it could be factories or shops or pharmacies or sometimes, there just isn't enough room for chairs. and I respect people who do these jobs because, standing for sometimes, 8 continuous hours is not easy, and even causes a lot of long terms health issues. however, the Chairless chair 2.0 could solve a lot of them. It's a passive exoskeleton that enables you to sit. It doesn't matter where you're, it's got pads in just the right places such that it feels like a chair, and most importantly, it is built to counteract the long-term difficulties from standing by strengthening your thigh and back muscles or relieving pressure on the spine and knees. I probably only spend like 40monutes standing a day, so, maybe not for me.
And in a similar vein, Solubag has made a whole catalog of bags that you can use as many or as few times as you want to. and then, when you're done, just stick them in hot water, and they will dissolve in just 5 minutes. There will be no trace of a bag, and the results in the liquid will be so safe that you can drink it, which is kind of amazing when you think about how a normal plastic would, well, take 500years to breakdown, and even then you do not want to be drinking that.
BOTTLE CRUSHER
The company DB breweries have created a fleet of machines that can take your used beer bottles and then, instead of just storing them to be emptied in landfills, can pulverize them into usable sand. This is then given to various companies that use sand to make things. Thus, reducing the amount of sand they'll need to take from our actual beaches. Important, because not so fin fact. Two-thirds of the world's beaches are shrinking – 5 out of 10
B-SHOE
But even then, I've still, somehow managed to become the clumsiness person I know. You know, one time, my friends will never let me forget this —I managed to fall over while sitting down. How does that even happen regardless the B-shoes are kind of, perfect for me. Each shoe has a motor control track on the underside as well as a whole load of motion sensors. And what these do is they detect if the wearer is about to fall over, and then, use those motors to spread that person's feet such that they very quickly have such a wide base, but they don't fall. It's what they built it for. Well, these shoes were primarily designed for the elderly who tend to fall often, and these falls are more likely to result in complications. It's a worthwhile course, but sadly, it just looks like the concept doesn't hit its funding target, and is now up in the air, unlike its users. 6 out of 10!
So, up until a few weeks ago, my dream car was probably a Tesla or maybe Lotus vigil — that thing is ridiculous until Audi unveiled what can only be described as a car from the year 2050. It looks fairly normal on the face of it. Okay, I mean, not exactly normal — somewhat conventional until you press this one button, and all of a sudden it activate full self-driving mode; the steering wheel disappears into the frame, and the car physically elongated itself to allow you more space to just chill and wait for it to take you somewhere. This is a concept car. So, you can't just pop to Audi and order one, but I like where their heads are at. 8 out of 10!
I couldn't write about a space-themed article and not talk about Galaxy. Turns out Samsung might well be working on a reliable smartphone currently being labeled as the Galaxy Z slide. It's a very unusual bit of kit, but according to some filed patents, it will have a half display on the back alongside the cameras, and then, that this display will keep going with all extra bits rolling up inside of the main body. And then, with the tap of one button, it can unroll to reveal a tablet. It's a fascinating concept not just because transforming phones are cooler than the current book-style foldable phones, but also just having a reliable screen means that you'll no longer have to worry about that crease going down the middle when extended. 7 out of 10!
And equally, alien – Xiaomi's new cyber dog. It's a robot that can follow you around like a real dog, moving at speeds of up to 3.2mters per second, and it's completely modular.
So, it is built with external attachments in mind depending on how you want to specialize it. It's not the first of its kind, it's almost definitely, a copy of the spotting robot by Boston Dynamics. But it might well be the smartest. It's got a powerful chipset on board; it can respond to voice commands and it can use face recognition to keep track of who's who. Am I the only one still waiting for a cyber chat?
We can take this to another level. We're almost reaching intergalactic status here. Did you know that you can reserve a seat now for a space capsule? It'll have 360° panoramic anti-glare windows, unlimited drinks, and a Wi-Fi connection fast enough to be able to live stream experience. It's effectively a pod attached to a massive balloon, and it's built to b balanced. the ground, drift up out of the atmosphere, and then, it features a lash down cone at the bottom such that it can land safely in the sea.
I probably won't be one of the first people to try it, but I do think it's kind of, crazy that this is starting in just 4years, and we are now talking about casual trips to space for leisure. 7 out of 10, with the slight caveat, that it is $125,000 for a 6-hour flight. So, you, know try not to fall asleep.
let's talk about traffic actually, because lots of cars on the road are often seen as a nuisance, right? However, a young entrepreneur from Pakistan has figured out how to benefit from it. This guy spent a fair amount of time at racetracks when he was younger. And when cars would fly past, he started paying to the wind that you'd feel from it. How it was more than just a welcome relief from the humidity, but also a resource that wouldn't be wasted. So, he developed a turbine that every single time a car passes will harness that wind to rotate and charge a battery that can then be used to power our homes. And since then, big companies, like shell have come in and funded that idea into widespread adoption — 5 out of 10.
Well, it turns out Quebec has started creating crossings that as soon as it's time to cross, turn into fences, admittedly, not the most intricate technological marvel, but given that It would probably save people's lives. I can't give it less than 6 out of 10. Is anyone else wondering, though, if you started walking on that, a little bit too early, wouldn't just catapult you unto the incoming traffic? We'll take questions at the end.
Right, between you and me, I love the idea of riding a motorcycle, but I'm way too much of a wimp to go through with it.
Honda may be about to change that with their self-balancing technology. They've created a little device that can sit above the wheel constantly assessing its position to know how much the bike is tilting, and physically move the steering bar if it goes too far one way. Oh yeah, the bike can follow to a parking spot and park itself. I'm not tempted! This is fine. And it's not just drivers, well, it also got to keep pedestrians safe.
SMART FLOWER
Okay, in today's world, we get through a lot of paper, whether it's bank statements or receipts or
your local pizza place shoving 14 leaflets through your door, each morning. The point is, Epson has come up with an incredible invention that allows you to recycle it. You feed all your waste paper into this absolute unit of a machine and three processes occur;
1. It breaks the paper down into individual fiber stripping away, all the ink in the process;
2. It deposits what's left into a uniform layer injecting a molecule that strengthens and whitens it and then;
3. it uses pressure to compress that layer into a paper of whatever thickness and size you want.
Recycling paper this way uses 95% less water than traditional methods. It avoids all the trucks needed to transport paper from location to location, and it means that any sensitive documents you might have never have to leave your premises even when you are done with them. Very easy! 6 out of 10.
LA MOTO VOLANTE
And also, yet another vehicle that I'll probably never drive — La Moto volante. Apologize to any French people, should in case you pronounce it wrong as I did, you know, they might get offenses with that pronunciation. But this translates to " the flying motorbike". On the land, it's nothing extraordinary — it's an electric bike that can go up to 100km on a charge but then, there are 4 high power turbines embedded in each wheel and tanks of kerosene — this thing can take off only for 1pminutes at a time, but look at it, I know it would never be allowed, but can you imagine getting stuck in traffic on time, and just being like, "Nope not today", and just overtake everyone from above.
MOVABLE CAMERAS
Smartphones are getting cool and one thing we know about them is that they are going to continue to evolve in ways that make them increasingly useful, and in that direction, it turns out that as well as rolling phones is concerned, Samsung has also filed patents for a camera system on rails. So by default, you'd have 3 cameras that sit in a straight line — pretty standard fare. But then, at the press of a button, the main camera in the middle can be pulled down, which in turn will bring the two secondary cameras on the sides inwards to form a triangle. But where this starts becoming useful is that, because you've moved each camera sensor to a new position, you can have a completely different set of lenses that will sit on to them in that position, meaning that even though you only actually have 3 cameras, you have the capability of 6 different cameras. It might never get implemented because there are obvious complications to it, but it's just so cool to think that while we're speaking right now this and so many trailed.
Now if you've been lucky enough to try virtual reality, you'll probably know just how immersive it can be, how you can be. Now you can fairly just forget that there is a real-world around you.
IMMERSIVE VR
But of course, there is other company's harder work to take this immersion to the next level like an axis. You've created these tiny little nodes which you can place on each of your lbs to enable full-body control — as you can punch, you can kick, you can throw, you can do anything you want to exactly how you would have to in a virtual world or with KAT VR — you've developed a 360° treadmill that allows you to run in any direction inside your game while staying in one spot in your bedroom or even probably the most extra solution, how Japanese manufacturers achieved a very similar thing using moving robotic tiles that follow you're every step. As practically as it is, it is so cool to watch — 8 out of 10!
QUANTUM COMPUTERS
To understand this one, and how it could change the entire fabric of our society? We need to understand that computers at least, the way we know them, are reaching their theoretical limits. To simply thought a little bit, the chips that our current computers run on are made up of billions of transistors or switches, and these are what create the bits, the zero-one binary operations that are the base of what your computer runs on by starting and stopping the flow of electrons. However, as we keep trying to cram resistors into successive generations of chips, the transistors themselves are getting so small that if they went much further, they wouldn't even be able to block the electrons. So, the next era of computing is even by a lot of people to be quantum computers, which, instead of working in normal bits, where each is a 0 or 1, they work in terms of quality, where each qubit can ant proportion of both 0 and 1, and will therefore carry more information, like, if you have 2 normal bits in a normal computer, you've got 4 possible outcomes — 00011011. But with quality, these are infinite.
Also, because with quantum computers the qubits are seen as an interlinked system as opposed to lots of individual switches working on their own, these computers can approach problems in smarter ways instead of the very methodical and inefficient one-by-one number-crunching that current computers work with. I'm not going to go into all the physics because it's stupidly complicated but the belief is that this type of fluid computing will be able to solve problems that might have taken a typical machine till the end of time in a matter of minutes. The entire way that a computer works is being rethought here. This is seen as the equivalent of moving from candles to light bulbs, and it would completely change everything from financial modeling to security, because like, instead of someone just needing to find out a binary key to hack onto your stuff, with a normal computer, they have to break quantum physics itself to do the same here. Fairly deserving of 10 out of 10 meetings.
ANCHOR NANO PRO CHARGER (SMALLEST iPhone 13 PRO CHARGER IN THE WORLD)
Alright, here's a modern-day problem. you're upgrading phones, you package up and sell your old one, you get yourself a new one, you rip open the packaging only to find you don't have a charger anymore. Well, the anchor nano Pro is trying to be the one-size-fits-all solution for that, and there's quite a lot of things I like about it like:
1. it's tiny —something like 45% smaller than most equivalently powerful charges;
2. it has an active shield, or in other words, its continuous temperature monitoring and automatic adjustments to power the output, if it starts getting hot, and;
3. there are a bunch of two-tone color options - glacier blur cool lavender, ArcticWhitee, and Black ice.
They're probably much made to match the colors of the iPhone 13 lineup. It is a 20watt output which is not their highest, but at the same time, considering that a brick half the size of my thumb can 50% charge an iPhone 13 in like 25minutes, it is pretty cool. And so check out on our previous post to find out more; to check out the last post all about the Vivo X70 Pro plus right here on this site as well as the iPhone 13 Pro.
We'll catch you on another one.
