You can trust Japan to lead the way in innovating self-hygiene. Of course, it should have a technology angle to it, every sig le time. The Sunstar-led smart toothbrush campaign is something that bears witness to the same. It involves a smart toothbrush that is synchronized with a G. U. M. PLAY app. Via Bluetooth, the smart toothbrush will send across notifications and updates to the app. This w...

Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde and his team of experts have created the world's largest smog vacuum cleaner. The Smog Free Tower uses patented ion technology to produce smog-free bubbles of public space, allowing people to breathe and experience clean air for free.Creating a tangible souvenir, Roosegaarde designed Smog Free Rings and Smog Free Cufflinks of compressed smog particles. By sharing...

The IoT, or Internet of Things, is burgeoning. While the better known Internet is made up of humans communicating with one another, the IoT all but eliminates the human element. Essentially, once it’s all set up, the machines communicate with one another. An IoT in your home, in your city, or at your workplace is actually extremely useful.This infographic from Appcessories gives you a good vis...

Only a fraction of the countries in the world make up the bulk of the tons of money spent on video games. The top 20 nations alone will spend $83 billion on video games by the end of 2015, according to intelligence firm Newzoo.[click to enlarge]That represents nearly 91 percent of the worldwide market. And, as predicted, China is on top of the United States in terms of total revenue with $22.23...

The bathroom of the future is going to make your electric toothbrush look decidedly low-tech. A futurologist has predicted that in less than 25 years smart mirrors could perform health checks, while robots will be able to do a person’s make-up and even paint their nails.This will be possible because almost everything in our homes will be connected to the web as part of the ‘Internet of things...

Some $18.5 Billion Will Be Lost To Ad Fraud In 2015As digital spend continues to reach landmark highs -- it hit $27.5 billion for the first half of 2015 – so does ad fraud, which is now estimated to cost the industry about $18.5 billion annually, according to a report released Thursday by Distil Networks. That means for every $3 spent, $1 is going to ad fraud.The news comes just one day after...

This HUD For Doctors Proves Less Is More For Future Wearables VIVI, A GOOGLE GLASS-LIKE DEVICE, HELPS KEEP DOCTORS UP TO SPEED IN THE OPERATING ROOM.For all of its promising ideas and potential, Google Glass can, at best, be summed up as a noble failure. In trying to appeal to as broad of an audience as possible, the resulting device offered little in the way of real world utility. But there we...

Most fingerprint scanners work the same way – the pad of the finger is pressed against the scanner’s glass surface, light is shone through the glass onto it, and the light that’s reflected back by the minuscule valleys between the print’s ridges is used to create an image of the print. It’s a system that’s usually effective, although it can fail to read prints that have been flattened by...

A group of inventors in Calgary, Canada, has developed the Biopod, which they claim is the world’s first smart microhabitat.With the Biopod you can grow just about anything in it: from a herb garden to even a rainforest. The unit also controls light, humidity, ventilation, temperature and rainfall. The Biopod is controlled through an app on your smartphone. All you need to do is just tap your...