The device connects to an iPhone app and can detect changes in humidity. When it does, it sends a message to the app alerting you that your baby needs a fresh pair. Not just that, the app keeps track of your Huggies stock and even let's you buy new diapers online. Check out a video below (it's in Portuguese, though).
There's also a really thin battery that lasts 2 to 3 hours, but can be recharged by a mini USB cable that is hidden under a flap. It's interesting that the ad also gave people a reason to carry the magazine around with them, making them engage with the content more. Maybe that's one way to save the print industry?
People simply plant USB drives in bricks and walls with the connector sticking out. They load up the drive with random files and wait for others to come take those files, or leave some of their own.
Check out the source to find a map and locate one near you. There's one by us here in Chicago that contains movies, gifs and even a video game! If you go look for these, let us know in the comments!
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In 2008, Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome launched the "Day&Night" watch. The watch doesn't tell time in the traditional sense. There is no minute or hour hand. Instead it simply tells the wearer whether it is day or night. Apparently, the watch wearers cannot tell that by themselves.
The Day&Night watch features two tourbillions—devices that overcome the ill effects of gravity on a watch's accuracy. The day one works for 12 hours during daylight. This symbolizes when an individual is working. The night tourbillion then takes over for the next 12 hours to represent the dark, individual time hours.
The watch is made with steel taken from the sunken Titanic and with parts taken from the shipyard where the doomed ship was built. This watch that doesn't tell time sold for $300,000 and the makers reasoned that anyone could make a watch that tells time in the traditional sense. This watch, however, represents the luxury of time and not being able to buy it.
The Day&Night watch sold out within 48 hours.
One of the logistical issues with electric cars is just where and when to charge them. The infrastructure is not set to support a fleet of all electric cars. And right now, they take a long time to fully charge. Fortunately, scientists are working to change all that. Some are building battery “switching stations” that would allow drivers to swap their batteries along a trip.
Another, potentially more effective, option is recharging roads. Engineers are developing a way to wireless charge electric cars through coil embedded in the actual road. The cars would charge as they drove, meaning that, in theory, they would never have to stop at a charge station.
