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Home & Housewares show brings innovation opportunities
Looking for your next best selling product for the home? Check out this year’s upcoming International Home & Housewares Show. I’ll be over at the Inventors Corner Pavilion to speak on March 15. That’s where companies can go see actual product creations and their inventors on hand. The International Home & Housewares Show is the…
In your face! The technology that keeps getting better
Facial recognition systems are not new, but you may be surprised at how far the technology has come over the past decade. A facial recognition system is a computer application that verifies a person’s identity from his or her digital image. That image can be your driver’s license, a single frame from a store’s surveillance…
Tall buildings made of – wood?
Here’s something you wouldn’t expect to be innovative – or safe. But of course it is both of those things. A new 10-story residential condo, slated for Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, and a 12-story retail, office, and apartment building in Portland, Oregon, will be the first two tall wood buildings in America. Wood generally has a…
Balancing act: A house that reacts to your roommate’s movements
Imagine a house that stays stable only if its inhabitants cooperate! Here’s a home that is balanced on an axis. It’s called ReActor, and is part of the 2016-17 Architecture Omi exhibition WOOD: From Structure to Enclosure. Check out this amazing video: The home was constructed at the Omi sculpture park in the Hudson Valley north…
Mood-altering therapy in a digital pill
Have you heard of psychoacoustics? It’s a big word for a form of therapy that promises mood-altering results. And get this: A company called Digipill is offering this therapy as swallowable, downloadable drugs, through transient electronics that dissolve in the body. These digital drugs are already helping humans to alter their health with technology. Digipill…
Could robots save the art of penmanship?
AxiDraw V3 is coming out this month, and it is capturing penmanship, a writing skill many are thinking may fade into obscurity. Created by Evil Mad Scientist, it’s a pen-plotting robot that serves as a “personal writing and drawing machine.” The machine is $475. Its website states: “The AxiDraw is a simple, modern, precise, and…