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What if you could have the world’s languages in the palm of your hand? You sort of do if you have smartphone because Google Translate is super helpful. I meant in a more literally way though. The Rosetta Disk is a chip that contains information for 1,500 human languages.
You can buy all your housewares, furniture and fixtures from IKEA, have you thought about buying a house from them? It turns out the famous furniture baron has a line of prefab homes made for people just starting out. The BoKlok is a series of homes you can pick out of a “catalogue” and have built to suit your needs.
Sometimes when the weather heats up you start finding your kitty cats taking a quick nap in the bathroom sink. This is because it curves nicely, which they like, and also because it’s quite cool. But you need your sink so give them a cool place to snooze with the Cat Cool Pot Bed.
The future is in sustainability. Most people are familiar with wind and solar power and both of these are great but have you considered human power? A couple of researchers want to answer the question of whether we can live solely on human power and have mapped out a plan to test it.
We love our pets, that’s why we keep up with the walking and litterbox changing. We think about their care a good deal but when something traumatic happens to us, many people’s friends and family aren’t very concerned with Fluffy and Rover at home. Emergency Pet Key Tags help friends and family get in touch with someone who can feed your animals.
Pockets are extremely useful but what if they could be even more convenient for our modern, everyday lives? I mean, the basic design is great and all but it can be better. Betabrand has proved this with their Sitting Pocket Sweatpants, the pants that improve on the pocket.
In love with your CD collection still? You may think baring some catastrophic event you two will never be parted but you’re wrong. CDs and DVDs may seem like they would last forever but that’s not the case, your precious disk may be slowly rotting away right now.
Rain is romantic seeming in movies, just standing in it, enjoying the pitter patter of the falling drops, romantic cinema magic. You can get that same experience when you’re showering with Real Rain, the shower that mimics being caught in a storm.
Texting while driving isn’t a very good idea but most people still do it. It’s easy, your phone is likely RIGHT THERE so why not fire off a quick message on a long stretch of road? If you get the urge, fight it because you don’t want that text to be the last before your car gets totaled or worse. They Auto Insurance Center put together some chilling reminders why we should forgo those texting urges.
Landmines are a huge issue for many countries that have been touched by conflict. Although the wars may be over, the left behind mines are still killing and maiming unsuspecting people all over the world. There are many tactics used to disarm these mines. Mine Kafon is the low-cost solution that hopes to save thousands in money and lives.
I’m allergic to flowers but I love them so when get them I have to either observe them from afar or just toss them because my eyes will not stop watering. For the next flower giving holiday I’m requesting flowers form Say It With Beef, the company that ships jerky bouquets.
Good posture is important to your health. Unfortunately, using a smartphone all day doesn’t really support proper neck alignment. In case you’re worried about your poor neck because you’re spending so many hours on your pocket computer, check out the Neck Relief Pillow for Smartphone Users, the pillow designed to ease the aches of heavy smartphone usage.
Voting is hard. Many people make choices that they later come to regret. Humans aren’t machines, we make mistakes. You know what doesn’t make mistakes though? Robots. Well, once they learn the facts, no mistakes! RoboVote is the program that wants to help people make better choices.
We’ve probably all faced a situation where someone we’re talking to comes up with a popular, but completely mistaken, viewpoint on a subject. And even if we know the truth, we just can’t remember the facts or phrase it the best way to clear things up. Well this clever new app is hopefully coming soon to solve the problem.
It’s no great secret that more and more jobs are becoming automated and that machines are helping us become more productive in the workplace. This comes at the cost of actual workers in some cases. The more we automate, the less we need people to fill positions. Check out this short animated feature that shows one possible future, where the last worker on Earth receives their pink slip.
