Worldbeing provides an easy way to calculate and reduce your carbon footprint. Britain’s Layer Design Studio has created a wearable device that logs and explains each of our personal carbon footprints.
There are loads of technological gadgets that have helped us achieve our health and fitness goals, such as those measuring heart rate to how much height you’ve claimed during your mountain climbing class. But there’s been one element on our morning run that couldn’t be measured until now – how much pollution we’re sucking in with every breath, potentially putting our health at risk. Now a really cool gadget aims to change all that.
A San Francisco startup is giving spiders and silkworms a run for their money. Bolt Threads has developed a synthetic, “programmable” alternative to larval- or arachnid-produced silk. Engineered using proteins derived from yeast, the fibers can be manipulated to deliver any combination of softness, strength, and durability. They’re even machine-washable.
So many things are becoming solar-powered these days, from lanterns that take the edge off during loadshedding to backpacks.
What if our clothing could radiate heat and keep us warm thereby eliminating the need for indoor heating in the cooler months? A team…
Repurpose Schoolbags are recycled shopping bags made into an upcycled schoolbag for underpriviliged learners, with a solar panel embedded within.
Nike has unveiled what it considers its most innovative football cleat to date, the Vapor untouchable, made from recycled plastic bottles.
Tommy Hilfiger has launched a new solar powered field jacket. In both a men’s and women’s fit, the jacket generates energy on the go with its built-in flexible solar panels on the back.
Imagine the chance to have beautiful shoes that have been made by a 3D printer. It sounds like something we can expect to see in shoe closets of the future (or in The Jetsons’ home, perhaps), but it’s already happening now.
Several of the ball boys at this year’s U.S. Open, which kicks off this week, will be trying out Ralph Lauren’s new ‘Polo Tech’, the iconic brand’s introduction into wearable technology: a black compression jersey that uses a system of discreet sensors to track its wearer’s biological and physiological profile.