Right now, one in every four diamonds on sale around the world is a blood diamond – mined in a war zone and sold to finance armed conflict and civil war. Many…
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Getting Gold and Copper from E-Waste is profitable than Mining them
Electronic waste — including discarded televisions, computers and mobile phones — is one of the fastest-growing waste categories worldwide. Researchers report that recovering gold, copper and other metals from e-waste is cheaper…
AlterEgo – MIT’s Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”
MIT researchers have developed a computer interface that can transcribe words that the user concentrates on verbalizing but does not actually speak aloud. The system consists of a wearable device and an…
A wearable system to monitor the stomach’s activity throughout the day
University of California Researchers have developed a wearable system to monitor stomach activity that performs as well as current state of the art methods but can be used outside of a clinical…
LeviZen levitates Water using Sound Waves
A company named Simplistyk is running a Kickstarter campaign for raising funds for their project named as “LeviZen“. LeviZen is fundamentally a liquid levitator using high frequency sound waves which are not…