Red indicates the coverage of silver nanoparticles in a fabric in this image that's been magnified 200 times.Even though we no longer have to beat our clothes on rocks to get them clean, laundry is still a pretty tedious chore. If researchers at Australia's Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have their way though, the amount of time we spend measuring capfuls of liquid, scraping out...

Not just Disneyland, but frankly all amusement parks evoke two extreme reactions from children. Most kids are elated, filled with pure extacy at the prospect of being in such a fun filled place. Some however, get thrown off by the excited large crowds and all the fanfare.The Disney camera by Soo Mok uses technology to remove that paranoia. Giving the child a camera gives them a certain confiden...

Today’s consumers have a high bar of expectation. They want the experience from desktop to mobile to tablet to flow smoothly, and they definitely notice when this fails.A new study released Tuesday by Adobe explores the cross-device preferences of consumers, finding that 66 percent of device owners get frustrated when content is not synchronized across devices.The biggest cross-device group? M...

Gamifying this often daunting task could prove more effective than traditional methods.Recognizing and responding to emotional and mental states of others is one of the frequently reported symptoms for children with autism. By turning input from Narrative Clip, a wearable camera, and Microsoft’s emotion recognition software into a game, Autimood can help kids enhance their social skills in a f...

New Breakthrough Development in Dental Care Detects Pre-Cavity Lesions With 100% Accuracy. Ortek Therapeutics, Inc., a global leader in oral care innovations and microbiome technology, announced today that a U.S. Patent has been recently awarded for the Ortek ECD™ (ECD) dental device, a system for detecting early or pre-cavity lesions that cannot be readily detected by visual examination or x-...

Airbnb is less than eight years old, but it has already caused massive changes in the way people travel. While consumers may have initially been hesitant to try the service, a new survey from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. shows that once they switch, they don't go back to hotels. According to a note sent out by Steven Kent and his team, a recent survey of 2,000 U.S. consumers had some pretty trouble...

At SXSW, augmented reality brought a favorite storybook to psychedelic life.Imagine opening a book and seeing it come to life—no special glasses required. What if the characters reacted to your hand gestures and daily objects and were are absorbed as elements in the story. Sony Future Lab has unveiled a device that transforms any flat surface into an augmented display, complete with touch cont...

INFARM is bringing fresh greens and herbs into the supermarket with its tiny vertical farms, which both grow and display the produce.While large-scale vertical urban farms may not be viable everywhere, scaled-down versions of this space-efficient growing method have been shown to be a potential good choice for a green small business, and the introduction of a new micro-scale offering from INFAR...

Smallest folded stroller: GoodBaby breaks Guinness World Records record.Designed for urban parents the GB Pockit Stroller weighs just 4.3 kilograms, and has storage space underneath for almost 5 kilograms worth of goods; at just 35cm x 30cm x 18cm, is able to fold up to the size of a large handbag, setting the new world record for the Smallest commercially available folded stroller, according t...