September 10, 2013

Bed Making Invention

Livingston Daily: Tired of making your bed or your child’s bed each morning and annoyed by how much time it takes you? To solve those problems, Howell resident Jana Warford has invented a bedding system called Telae that she believes will “revolutionize the way we make a bed.” Warford said she designed her patent-pending product

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Have A Great Idea? Tell Everyone!

The New York Times: You’ve heard of high-tech start-ups being in “stealth mode,” meaning they’re not telling anyone what they’re up to yet. It has a glamorous aura to it, conjuring up images of a brilliant project in the works that will soon be sprung upon the world, disrupting established players and leaving everyone scrambling

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A Carpet To Detect Falls

NewScientist.com/blogs: A team at the University of Manchester in the UK has developed a carpet that can detect when someone has fallen over or when unfamiliar feet walk across it. Optical fibres in the carpet’s underlay create a 2D pressure map that distorts when stepped on. Sensors around the carpet’s edges then relay signals to

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Infrared-Camera To Scan For Drunks

Wired.com: Computer scientists have published a paper detailing how two algorithms could be used in conjunction with thermal imaging to scan for inebriated people in public places. In the paper, published in the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics, Georgia Koukiou and Vassilis Anastassopoulos of the University of Patras in Greece detail two

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