Blue Freedom: A Mini Hydropower Plant for Charging Mobile Devices Weekly Tech. 6

Charging My Phone Without a Plug?!

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    This all new Blue Freedom kit offers another alternative to solar panels, fuel cells, wind turbines, muscle-powered dynamos, AC- charged back-up batteries, and other portable power solutions. This Blue Freedom hydro-power plant transforms the power of running water into phone chatting, internet browsing, music listening, GPS navigating, and other mobile device activities, and it does so from a package built to fit in a backpack. The Blue Freedom charging kit consists of a 4.7-in (12-cm)- diameter micro turbine, a 5W generator and a 5,000 mAh lithium-polymer internal battery. The turbine takes a plunge into a running water body and the unit's base stays ashore, letting you charge devices directly by way of the USB 2A and 1A ports. You can also store energy in the integrated battery for later use. A built-in LED light helps you see at night. The kit is designed to operate in temperatures between 41 and 104 ºF (5 and 40 ºC) and altitudes up to 16,400 feet (5,000 m). The kit will be available for $219.

Mind-Blowing 3D Printing Technique is Inspired by Terminator 2 Weekly Tech. 5

3D Printing ?!

An iconic scene from the movie "Terminator 2," the robotic villain T-1000 rises fully formed from a puddle of metallic goo. From this very scene is where the company Carbon3D received their inspiration to think of their 3D printing technique. Just as the evil T-1000 rises from its puddle of metal alloys, objects from the new printer seem to ooze into existence from the ether. They come out 25 out of 100 times faster than anything on the market now according to the study published in science. This new process to DeSimone and his colleagues is called "CLIP". CLIP places a pool of resin over a digital light projection system, where a special window is placed between the resin and allows light and oxygen to travel through (much like contact lenses). To create an object CLIP projects specific bursts of light and oxygen, in which lights hardens the resin and the oxygen keeps it from hardening. By controlling the light and oxygen exposure in tandem, intricate shapes and latices can be made in one piece instead of many layers of material that usually make up a 3-D printed object. 

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Charge All Your Devices at Once, Using Infrared Light Weekly Tech. 4

Charging As Many Device At Once?! 

The company Wi-Charge envisions having transmitters installed in the future in light fixtures and smoke detectors that beam infrared light to automatically top up devices within a room. Wi-Charges system is capable of converting energy into infrared light, and beam it with a 500-foot area and capture it in a receiver or device, where it converts back to energy once again. If a device maker does not integrate the infrared receiver directly into any device, then the device can easily be charged with a certain case or other dongle. Infrared is an invisible beam of light, and the company wishes to use a method where the beams of lights precisely goes to the receiver using a laser diode in the transmitter and a photo-voltaic cell in the receiver to reconvert the light energy to into electric energy. Although the Wi-Charges system does not arrive until 2016, it will roughly be about $50-100 dollars, and will not be used for all devices except small ones like tablets, laptops, and phones.

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Samsung Dream Doghouse Envisions Luxury Digs for Man's Bestfriend Weekly Tech. 3

A Dog's Dream in a Kennel?!

 

        Samsung unveiled a concept kennel featuring luxuries amenities like a treadmill, hydrotherapy pool, and an automated feeder. The kennel took about 12 designers to make, including an architect to come up with the concept. The total cost for the kennel was a total of $30,500, and will not be coming out anytime soon, due to it being only promoted at Samsung's sponsorship in the UK for Cruft's Dog show. The kennel is split into three areas; a rest and entertainment space, a dining area, and an unsheltered leisure area with astro-turf grass. The dinning area is finished off with a vinyl wallpaper and personalized framed portraits that display Crufts "pin-ups." The interior of the entertainment area is decked out with fire-retardant carpet, and mantled on the wall is a Samsung Galaxy Tab S.

  

 

 

 

 

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