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Source: Huffington Post – “The creators of a new Kickstarter campaign claim to have developed an umbrella that pushes air against the rain to protect its owner from getting wet, and they’ve blown way past their $10,000 funding goal. They call it the Air umbrella.” See it from all angles here.
Source: CNN, Paul Vercammen
Could this robot be a new tool in the fight against Ebola?
Source: Business Insider – Elon Musk has unveiled the newest Tesla, and there are a ton of new, futuristic features.
Source: Future Ideas & Technology
Support the project at kickstarter.com
Source: Techcrunch
Source: pianonator – Dr. James E. West, formerly of Bell Laboratories, now research professor at Johns Hopkins University, interviewed on June 10, 2009, for the occasion of the Juneteenth celebration by the Student Technology Services, celebrating contributions to science and technology by African-American innovators. West, together with Gerhard Sesslar, invented the Electret Microphone, which is used in roughly 95 percent of microphone applications today.
Source: Yahoo! News – Meet Jibo, “the world’s first family robot.”
Source: UppWhats – “The inFORM is MIT’s new scrying pool for imagining the interfaces of tomorrow. Almost like a table of living clay, the inFORM is a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, allowing users to not only interact with digital content in meatspace, but even hold hands with a person hundreds of miles away. And that’s only the beginning.”
Source: TakePart Live – Tech developers in Kigali, Rwanda are creating a technology hub in East Africa.
Source: USA Today