6 easy, affordable smart home features that could help you sell your house faster – remaxrunner

6 easy, affordable smart home features that could help you sell your house faster...RE/MAX 17 February 2017 Fresh paint on the walls, professional staging and an asking price that ends in 999 — when you're selling your home, you'll do whatever you can to help it stand out and sell faster. Because the National Association of Realtors is predicting modest growth for the 2017 real estate market, as a...
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Experience Connected Home Technology Like Never Before at “Target Open House”

Target Open House – part retail space, part lab, part meeting venue for the connected home tech community – opens to the public in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center. This 3,500 square-foot ode to IoT features a transparent, acrylic “house” complete with acrylic furniture and detailing that makes the house feel right at home among San Francisco’s “Painted Ladies.” But the house isn’t just for...
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Solar paint offers endless energy from water vapour – RMIT University

Researchers have developed a solar paint that can absorb water vapour and split it to generate hydrogen – the cleanest source of energy. The paint contains a newly developed compound that acts like silica gel, which is used in sachets to absorb moisture and keep food, medicines and electronics fresh and dry. But unlike silica gel, the new material, synthetic molybdenum-sulphi...
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See Through Solid Objects With Your Smart Phone.

New To Market, Handheld 3D Imaging System For Your Smart Phone. Vayyar Announces Walabot, a Handheld 3D Imaging System for Consumers, Developers and Curious Inventors Everywhere. Available in April 2016 for Android devices, Walabot sees beyond the limits of human vision TEL AVIV and SAN FRANCISCO, February 18, 2016 -- Vayyar Imaging (http://vayyar.com), the 3D-imaging sensor company ...
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First Genetically Modified Insect Drones Take Flight

Draper combines navigation and neuromodulation to guide insects CAMBRIDGE, MA –   The smallest aerial drones mimic insects in many ways, but none can match the efficiency and maneuverability of the dragonfly. Now, engineers at Draper are creating a new kind of hybrid drone by combining miniaturized navigation, synthetic biology and neurotechnology to guide dragonfly insects. The sys...
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Ways Technology Is Improving Our Health

  We hear all the time about how technology is bad for us. Since the introduction of computers. Even people working on App Development have the same issues, we spend more time sitting at a desk than moving around at work. We have created this sedentary lifestyle that is causing havoc in our overall life. What if I were to tell you that technology has produced benefits? Would you b...
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Smart Home Tech-Electrolux Design Lab- Winners 2004 to 2015

Below you will find a digested timeline of Electrolux Design Lab Competitions. Established in 2003, Electrolux Design Lab is a global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate design students who are invited to present innovative ideas for future households. Each year Electrolux challenges design students all over the world. The challenge is to create a concept that is relevant to the ...
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Gates Seven Predictions for the Future

Bill Gates has been almost prophetic in his past predictions: his 1999 list was hauntingly accurate, foreseeing the advent of price comparison websites, smartphones, social media, and bots. Over the last few years, in interviews and annual letters, he has continued predicting: here are a selection of seven of his insights. 1. IN THE NEXT 15 YEARS, 33 MILLION PEOPLE COULD BE WIPED OUT IN LESS ...
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Meet the 22-year-old who saved thousands of people from the global ransomware hack – VICE News

“I got back from eating lunch, saw [WannaCry] had started to hit the news… so I started looking into the malware, and I found this domain,” Hutchins said of a URL he found embedded in WannaCry’s code. He then registered the domain — a common practice when trying to track malware — and that unexpectedly triggered a shutdown of the WannaCry. By the time that happened, the hack had already aff...
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