In recent years, we’ve seen a rise in environmental impact awareness. Many countries are working hard to find new ways to utilize renewable energy, burn clean energy, and minimize their carbon footprint. France has passed a new law, that all large parking lots in the country will have to be covered by solar panels. President...
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Gaming through VR headsets has become quite common these days. But what happens when we come across a headset that can kill users if they die in the game? Yes, you read that right, and this is exactly what Palmer Luckey has created. The father of modern virtual reality and a defense contractor recently manufactured...
The Indian state of Gujarat is leading the solar revolution, with Modhera being the first solar-powered village in the country. This has set a precedent for Antonio Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations. He considers this to be “a reconciliation between humankind and planet.” This project has reportedly supplied the citizens of this village...
Many of us, probably all, would prefer to skip the queues at the checkout counters after doing our weekly shopping. That’s where self-checkout comes in. Theoretically, it is supposed to make the whole process faster, more efficient, and more secure. Even if the other two might be true, the last condition seems to be facing...
Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, technology has boomed. More and more inventions are being created that will better the living circumstances of the world’s population. One man has taken it into his charge to ‘give snakes their legs back’. He has created a robot suit, which acts like an exoskeleton for a snake....
It won’t be a lie if we say that screenshotting has become a habit nowadays. How else are we supposed to save those hilarious memes and puns that pop up on our feeds, usually without any warning? But, at the same time, the feature can be a serious breach of privacy. So, Facebook is looking...
There have certainly been plenty of sci-fi movies and TV shows that include humanoid robots, so far they are still far from an everyday household item. Though we have robots now that can take care of our dying plants and Elon Musk says that he will soon be releasing Tesla’s very own humanoid robots, few...
There is no doubt about it: Our planet has a plastic problem. Eco-companies, engineers, scientists, and entrepreneurs are scrambling to find sustainable solutions to make plastic a product of the past. One of the latest of these is a young Mexican entrepreneur who has created a plastic alternative made out of orange waste. (1) Student...
For the first time ever, researchers in China have officially turned on their “artificial sun” nuclear fusion reactor. Fusion is what powers our sun, and scientists consider it the “holy grail” of energy production [1]. This makes it one of the only potential alternatives for producing energy on a larger scale [2]. If this reactor...
There is no denying that our climate is rapidly changing at the hands of human intervention, and that the earth is entering an environmental crisis. The need for more pro-environment countries, cities, homes, and systems is at an all-time high and requires the immediate, focused attention of everyone, from the world’s leaders, to businesses, right...
There’s not a single country out there that doesn’t produce thousands if not millions of tons of waste every single year. The Netherlands alone produces 8.5 billion kilograms of waste each year. (1) Dutch students took that and built an electric car made almost entirely out of waste. (2) Dutch Students Build Electric Car Almost...
For many people, electric cars that produce less or zero emissions are an exciting step towards a more sustainable planet. Not everyone is as sold on the idea, unfortunately. In the latest news of the anti-electric vehicle groups, vandals are stuffing meat into electric vehicle charging stations in Germany. Naturally, this is causing thousands of...