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Nintendo wins big with “Pokémon GO” mobile app
If you see young people wandering through your city looking for digital creatures to catch, don’t distract them! These are Pokémon fans, who are intently playing a brand new location-based mobile app game called Pokémon Go. How big of a deal is this? It’s huge: The Apple and Android app debuted last Wednesday evening in the…
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…
A hospital door handle that sanitizes your hands!
We know that hygiene is a major issue for hospitals. You can’t go far in a hospital without seeing the handy sanitizer dispensers that enable doctors and visitors to easily wash their hands and prevent the spread of bacteria. Now PullClean is offering an innovative solution combining sanitizers and door handles, and helping hospital users…
Eco-friendly bioplastics inspire innovation
I am very excited about the new developments in bioplastics research! Within the past few years there have been numerous new-to-market plastic products that either decompose in the landfill or make the recycling process cheaper, easier and more environmentally friendly. One company from France has launched a plastic “coffee pod” (like the kind used in…
What Nanotechnology could do for mobile communications
Nokia Research Center and Cambridge Nanoscience Center are now nearly two years into their unique partnership to develop new ideas around nanotechnology–including this Morph Wrist Mode concept. Check out this two-piece bracelet that can change its shape to adapt to your needs–yet can be rigid when you need it to be. Here is a scriptless…