Coravin Wine Access technology uses a hollow needle to extract wine so you never have to
remove the cork again.
And for twenty four years there was secret troll under the San Francisco Bay Bridge that
was only seen by bridge workers and boaters and a new troll will be hidden somewhere on
the new bridge.
Vsauce, Kevin here this is Mind Blow.
The Nasal Ranger is a field olfactometer that measures odor strength.
If you follow me on Twitter I shared this a few days ago.
It takes out the subjectivity of smell and provides a universal odor strength standard
using the dilution to threshold method.
This is the most commonly used and recognized method of odor scale and is determined by
the number of dilutions needed to take the odor out of the air.
Sono is a device concept that cancels sounds from the outside when attached to the window.
Designed by Rudolf Stefanich, it was nominated for the James Dyson Award and claims that
rooms with the device are 10 times quieter than rooms without it.
It allows the user several filtering options.
To have complete silence, only filter certain noises so you can keep the sound of birds
chirping in and keep the construction sounds out, or simply change noises to something
that you enjoy.
But the device is not yet ready for production.
The deep green is underwater renewable energy technology.
Created by Minesto, and now in practical use in the waters off the coast of Northern Ireland,
it converts energy from tidal stream flows into electricity.
This system is valuable because tidal currents are highly predictable and there's minimal
visual impact because it's always at least 20 meters below the surface of the water.
This catalogue of 1500 criminal mugshots recently sold at auction for $10,000!
Researchers at Simon Fraser University have created robots that pays attention to humans.
Using cameras and facial detection the drones are able to see who the human is looking at
and specific voice commands tell them what to do once they know which one of them is
being directed.
All of this effort is being made to develop a command system that even an inexperienced
user can easily pick up on.
The Hairlytop Interface is an interactive display that could be used as life-like fur
for robotic pets and toys.
It reacts to the changes in light and brightness of the screen creating movement similar to
that of a living thing and they hope to one day create an entire floor that moves along
with changes in light.
The device is primarily used with light but can also be controlled with audio and magnetic
sensors.
3D printed human cells could possibly do away with the need for drug testing on animals
within the next five years.
Bioengineering PhD student Alan Fauklkner-Jones claims that the new technology can print human
stem cells to create micro tissues and micro organs to test drugs on.
The technology could also allow for drug tests to be personalized by using cells of the specific
patient instead of a generic human response.
Shreddies are underwear that were designed to stop farts from smelling.
So Yeah.
inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that lets users interact with digital information.
For example architects can better present their designs from afar using 3D renderings.
Developed at MIT, inFORM can interact with the physical world, seen here moving around
this ball and picking it up with a basket.
And they're looking to explore ways to use this in areas ranging from surgical simulations
to urban planning.
The light cloth is an interactive light display of woven fabric made out of optic fibers that
allows for computer controlled light patterns to be displayed.
The light cloth is also able to receive signals using infrared light such as a pen or laser
pointer so you could even change the color of someone's clothes on a stage from a distance.
This sign language ring won a prestigious red dot award for 2013.
Using a set of rings and a bracelet the system is able to detect sign language motions and
translate them to voice that is emitted by the bracelet.
The system is able to be customized to the particular user by prerecording their signing
movements and assigning the appropriate words.
Finally, here' the first performance ever of the Viola Organista an instrument originally
designed by Leonardo DaVinci.
I'm going to
leave you with a robot playing rock paper scissors that never loses and as always - thanks
for watching.