Here’s an innovation and an inspiration: A billboard that cheers you on if you choose to walk, jog or run instead of drive:
This idea might just catch on. You can add it to the list of innovative billboards that can make clean drinking water, track air quality, house the homeless, and advertise art instead of products.
Fast company has the story here. Just click on the billboard:
This ring allows you to write text messages by simply drawing in the air. The same technology can access your apps by drawing shapes in the air. For example, drawing a music note could access your music player, while drawing an envelope shape would allow you to access your email: Post by InnovationEdge.
Have you checked out bit-coins yet? This new currency is quietly gaining momentum. Check out this story on how easy it is to obtain and exchange these: Post by Springwise.
How will we pay for things in the future? How about with a “selfie?” Already we are swiping and chipping in ways no one could have predicted a decade ago. The technology is moving fast, but our imaginations are even faster! Check out this interesting article: The Future Of Payments: From heartbeat monitoring bracelets to…
Great story out of Georgia Tech, where students have developed a solution that could allow assistance dogs to better communicate with their handlers. Check it out here: In a project now known as FIDO (for Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations), the group is constructing dog vests studded with an array of sensors that the…
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…
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…
