Meet the Doorbot

 

The DoorBot is a Wi-Fi-enabled doorbell that lets you see and talk to the visitors standing outside your entryway from an iOS or Android smartphone. When someone rings the bell, it initiates what is basically a video call on your phone. You don't even have to be at home, and you can set the DoorBot to work with multiple devices so that everyone who lives in your home can use it. It costs around $200.

Handpress Auto Espresso Machine

 

Are you getting bored with making coffee daily in the morning?With this portable coffee machine that will be a thing of the past.

Making your coffee is easy. Just plug in the gadget, add water and coffee, and press the button.

3D Printers

In Last December,2013 Michigan Technological University announced their firsr 3D printer.However not many of these printers is available to the common peoples.

Rocket parts,Bionic ears and even toothbrushes were all successfully printed with 3D printer.

3D printers use a variety of very different types of additive manufacturing technologies, but they all share one core thing in common: they create a three dimensional object by building it layer by successive layer, until the entire object is complete. It’s much like printing in two dimensions on a sheet of paper, but with an added third dimension: UP. The Z-axis.

Each of these printed layers is a thinly-sliced, horizontal cross-section of the eventual object. Imagine a multi-layer cake, with the baker laying down each layer one at a time until the entire cake is formed. 3D printing is somewhat similar, but just a bit more precise than 3D baking.

 

                                      SMART ROBOTS

 

Quadcopters are quickly gaining popularity.consumers can look forward to smart quadcopters like Spiri.Spiri is a programmable flying robot that has an onboard camera and range finder to help you achieve whatever you program it to do.

Robot cubes that can move about on their own and assemble themselves into anything they are programmed to do. Magnets are used to attach the blocks to one another while flywheels inside the body of each cube generate enough momentum for them to move and even jump in the air.

There’s no real application to what these modular robots can actually do right now as it’s still in the very early stages of research, but this modular idea means that a machine isn’t limited to a single task but can assemble itself into another machine to achieve another task.

Do-it-yourself Stress Hormone Test by Your Smartphone

In a recent conference in USA  researchers said that health apps are coming in your smartphone for stress test.Anyone with a smartphone will be able to measure their salivary cortisol level quickly, easily and inexpensively

Parts of the United States and the rest of the world that lack facilities to measure cortisol will now be able to perform this essential diagnostic test.Measuring salivary cortisol with this technology will provide a way for individuals to monitor their personal biometric stress levels easily and inexpensively.

The public to monitor their own cortisol levels whenever they want. So they designed their device to be inexpensive to manufacture, and easy to use on all cell phones, all platforms and all form factors.

It consists of a case, a light pipe, and a lens, it uses no battery power and it’s unbreakable and reusable.

To take the test, a person puts a straw-like saliva collector under the tongue, and capillary action wicks the saliva to an assay strip in a cassette that's inserted into a reader; the reader aligns a lens and light diffuser with a smartphone’s camera and flash. A few minutes later, the smartphone image analysis app quantifies the cortisol value.

 

 

MRAM- Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory

Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) is a non-volatile computer memory (NVRAM) technology, which has been in development since the 1990s.

Unlike conventional RAM chip technologies data is not stored as electric charges but by magnetic charges.

In MRAM data can be stored in greater amount and can be accessed faster while consuming less battery power compare to conventional electronic  memory.

Conventional memory chips like RAM stores information as long as power is on,once power is turned off the information is lost unless it is stored in secondary memory.But in MRAM the information still remains in memory even when the power is turned off.

IBM,Motorola,Honeywell,HP,Hitachi,Siemens are working on MRAM.

                                            Electric Cars

 
From the Nissan LEAF to the BMW i3, 2013 started to bring electric cars more to the middle of the road.

As more charging points are rolled out across the country in 2014, expect the interest in these motors to increase.

As well as helping the environment, they keep the cost of driving low with no need for petrol or diesel.

All you do is plug them in overnight and off you go in the morning.
Of course, you have a limited range but they're great for local and short hopper journeys.