This salad-making machine will make you the perfect salad in 60 seconds The Sally robot wants to find a place in corporate offices next to the junk-food filled vending machine. If you want a salad from the market at the Calafia Cafe in Palo Alto, a restaurant, and market run by the ex-Google chef Charlie…
Bad news abounds these days. Violence. Hate. War. Terrorism. Environmental destruction. Political insanity. It all seems so…bad. And I don’t know about you, but when my social media feed is filled with the news it has been of late, each story more disturbing than the last, I start to lose hope. But what if things…
MIT is developing color-changing tattoos that can monitor your diabetes in real time Your future tattoo design might be good for more than just personal style , they might be able to monitor our body’s health in real time. Earlier last month, researchers at MIT announced the development of the Dermal Abyss: a biosensing tattoo…
Has this Sillicon Valley startup finally nailed the indoor farming model Indoor farming is a trendy startup space, but many of those ventures have recently failed. Plenty thinks its technology, model, and timing mean it’s the place that will finally turn greens into green. The company isn’t the first to build an indoor urban farm…
The cost of Solar will drop another 25% by 2022 A new report has found that the cost of solar energy is dropping at a staggering rate of 4.4 percent worldwide each year. However, it cites some worrying causes as to why the power source has become so cheap. The solar price slump Solar energy…
The greenest football club in the world Football isn’t particularly known for its progressive thinking, but Ecotricity’s collaboration with Forest Green Rovers could shift the goalposts. Welcome to the most sustainable football club in the world – probably. Newly promoted to the Football League for the first time in the club’s history, the Green Devils,…
An entire region of China ran on 100% renewable energy for 7 days There’s been a lot of scepticism about whether renewable energy can produce all our future energy needs. So last week, a Chinese province went out of their way to show it was possible for the entire region to run solely on green…
Boys is creating memes to spread awareness about organic farming What do you associate memes with? The first few words that come to my mind are comedy and satire. But 24-year-old Santhosh, an agriculturalist, uses them to inform farmers about various techniques and tips that will benefit their practice. This meme-crusader comes from a farming…
How a Visually Impaired Man Helped Employ Over 7,000 Persons With Disabilities After losing his sight, he came to realise the hardships differently abled people struggle with, especially in an environment characterized by limited resources and opportunities. But Jitender was not resigned to his fate. He got trained to use screen readers (software programs that…
Digital startup aims to lead a revolution in retail transparency Jessi Baker, founder of blockchain technology platform Provenance, envisions a future where all physical products have digital histories, allowing people to trace and verify products’ origins, attributes and ownership. Is it time for a new dawn of transparency in retail? The software platform is a…