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A smart self-installing car safety seat
Car safety seats are infamously tricky to install correctly, so the upcoming 4moms self-installing child seat is a welcome development. The smart seat installs itself, automatically adjusting levels and tensioning to fit perfectly with the car’s seat. It also connects to a smartphone app via Bluetooth, enabling users to constantly monitor its status, reassuring parents that their kids are safe in the back.
The seat itself can accommodate children from 4-30 lb. It has an adjustable headrest, a retractable canopy and a five-point harness system. To begin, parents connect the seat base to their car’s latch anchors, which then adjust the level and tension. The system provides audio and visual cues to signify that the base is correctly fitted, and further signals every time they attach the seat. If anything goes wrong, such as a loss of tension, the seat provides warning signals and advises the parent on how to fix it. Notifications can also be accessed via the 4moms smartphone app, which provides monitoring through the smartphone’s internal accelerometer and gyroscope.
The self-installing car seat is currently available for pre-order and will be available from June 2016. We recently saw the Mifold portable booster seat. How else could car seating be upgraded for additional comfort and safety?
Website: www.4moms.com
Contact: aley@4moms.com
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Material can store sunlight and release it later as heat
Solar power is the most successful example of sunlight being converted into useful energy and we have seen a number of projects using this technology on a small scale such as Repurpose school bags. Now, researchers at MIT have developed a new material that can store solar energy during the day to be released later as heat.
The material is a transparent polymer film, which can be applied to surfaces including clothing or windows. When the film is exposed to the sun it triggers a chemical reaction in the material and the chemical compounds are altered at the molecular level. This chemical state can remain indefinitely, meaning the energy is stored without diminishing, as heat otherwise would. The energy can then be activated as heat through a light, heat or electric trigger, which would cause the material to return to its initial molecular structure, releasing the stored energy.
The chemical reaction can release a temperature burst of up to 10 degrees. The research team envision the material being used to enable clothing to release heat at night, or melt away ice on a windscreen. What other applications are there for the material?
Website: www.news.mit.edu
Contact: acarleen@mit.edu
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Autonomous fireproof drone can reccy high-rise fires
High-rise fires pose particular risks for firefighters — accessibility is often limited meaning assessment is difficult, and the dense nature of urban spaces make them hard to contain. We have already seen a fleet of jetpacks attempt to tackle this problem. Now, researchers at Kaist in South Korea have developed fireproof drones, called FAROS, which could help do the job.
FAROS, short for fireproof aerial robot system, can detect fires, navigate the building and transfer vital images and data to firefighters remotely, providing them with potentially life-saving information before they enter the building. The drone can both fly and climb walls; it uses a 2D laser scanner to spot obstacles and autonomously alter its path or mode of movement accordingly. It also has a thermal-imaging camera and image-processing technology, so it can recognize people inside the building and potentially ascertain the point where the fire started. The drone is covered in aramid fibers, making it flame-retardant and capable of withstanding heat of up to 1000 degrees celsius for over a minute.
FAROS joins AirMule and Project Premonition as examples of drone technology being used in life-saving application. How else could the technology be used to make incredibly dangerous jobs safer?
Website: www.kaist.edu
Contact: http://ift.tt/23CGJFK
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Startup delivers birth control pills on-demand
Back in 2012 a London-based service started delivering the morning after pill by courier. Now a new app in San Francisco is offering birth control medication delivery to Californians.
Nurx delivers contraceptive pills for free for women who have insurance — or USD 15 for those without it — and is also planning to offer Truvada, a drug treatment that has been used to prevent HIV transmission. The service’s bike couriers in the area can deliver the medication within two hours.
Nurx’s app uses simple health questions that are sent to a pharmacist, who is then able to send the prescription to customers. The pills are administered by professional physicians, and Nurx offers automatic refills to renew prescriptions.
In their own words, Nurx says the cost of a visit to doctors can be a major barrier to birth control. They say they want to improve access to healthcare, giving more women more control over their body.
What other types of medication could be made more accessible via an on-demand model?
Website: www.nurx.co
Contact: www.nurx.co/contact
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