After numerous autonomous smart vacuum cleaners, here is the first ultimate robot mop cleaner called Everybot. A project launched at Kickstarter.
This ingenious device by Moneual has seven different cleaning modes to fit the types of floors and furniture layout of your home, and the oval shape allows it to fit into and clean even the hard to access corners. Everybot can be a real timesaver.
Everybot has a number of truly impressive and advanced features: multi-directional sensors to avoid obstacles and the ability to sense vertical drop-offs: so no falling accidents with a staircase or countertop.
The sensors of this smart device can even detect room lighting, which allows it to travel back to a well-lit area after it's done mopping under furniture.
Everybot has a dry cleaning mode too to clear the floor before mopping so it essentially is a vacuum and mopp both.
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Besides mopping and vacuuming you can also use the handle on top to let the Everybot work. It is a multifunctional cleaning tool; also handy to clean windows, countertops or your car.
As China is withdrawing from bitcoin trading, operating licenses have been issued to 11 bitcoin exchanges by Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA)
The new Japanese law established bitcoin as a legal payment method and is now enforcing new ruling regarding security guidelines for cryptocurrency exchanges.
The licensing enforces certain operational requirements for the exchanges. These include: the verification of customer identities, the segregation of customer accounts and high standards for cybersecurity.
The new regulations are intended to protect investors from fraud and cyber crime, while supporting financial technology innovation.
The registration places several requirements on the companies, such as building a strong computer system and checking the identity of users to prevent money laundering.
Japan is currently uniquely proactive in its cryptocurrency regulations.
Bitcoin payments may be accepted at over 260,000 stores in Japan by this summer as result of partnerships between bitcoin exchanges and major retailers.
Coincheck, which holds most of the bitcoin payment market share in Japan, will bring Bitcoin payments to shops that use AirRegi, a point-of-sale app developed by Recruit Lifestyle, by this summer.
Using AirRegi customers can simply scan the barcode displayed on the app to pay with bitcoin. Coincheck will then process the transaction, converting the bitcoin into yen.
It was also very recently reported that Japanese banks are considering setting up their own digital currency called the J-Coin.
Japan already had over 4,000 locations accepting bitcoin and considering the tax incentives and the new favourable regulations the country is expected to have a positive impact on consumer confidence and growth of the domestic virtual currency market.
As for the new regulations and licensing the exchange firms are reacting very enthusiastically.
Quoine, one of the 11 bitcoin exchange firms to receive a license said that they are aiming "towards the healthy development of the cryptocurrency industry within Japan and on a global scale."
"Japan has been exploding with demand for both bitcoin trading as well as virtual currency services," said Bitflyer's CEO, Kano.
"The FSA's approval for bitFlyer to operate as a Registered Virtual Currency Exchange, and the agency's openness and forward thinking regulation could not come at a better time for the blockchain space."
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Blockchain is a digital leger that is dispersed across networks. It is used in the cryptocurrency space to securely record every transaction between users.
Newly discovered approximately 5.7 million years old human-like footprints in Crete question the common narrative of early human evolution.
The discovery of these newly found securely dated human-like footprints in Crete, suggests a different and far more complex reality, mainly because the footprints were made at a time when previous research puts our ancestors in Africa with ape-like feet.
The origin of the human lineage has been thought to lie in Africa. All fossil hominins older than 1.8 million years came from Africa, leading most researchers to conclude that this was where the group evolved.This has been the case ever since the discovery of fossils of Australopithecus in South and East Africa during the middle years of the 20th century.
After that, fossil discoveries in the same region, including the 3.7 million year old Laetoli footprints in Tanzania have founded the idea further that early hominins not only originated in Africa but remained there isolated from the rest of the world for several million years.
Gerard Gierlinski a paleontologist at the Polish Geological Institute specialized in footprints, first discovered the Crete footprints but identified them as mammal.
After intensive study and research however, together with another scientist named Grzegorz Niedzwiedzki, he came to the conclusion that the footprints were made by early hominins.
Human feet have a very distinctive shape, different from all other land animals. The combination of a long sole, five short forward-pointing toes without claws, and a hallux ("big toe") that is larger than the other toes, is unique.
The new footprints, from Trachilos in western Crete, have an unmistakably human-like form. This is especially true of the toes. The big toe is similar to our own in shape, size and position; it is also associated with a distinct 'ball' on the sole, which is never present in apes.
The sole of the foot of the dicovered footprints is proportionately shorter than in the Laetoli prints, but it has the same general form.
In short, the shape of the Trachilos prints indicates clearly and unmistakenly that they belong to an early hominin, somewhat more primitive than the Laetoli trackmaker.
What makes this discovery so controversial is the age and location of the prints according to Professor Per Ahlberg at Uppsala University.
At approximately 5.7 million years, they are younger than the oldest known fossil hominin and contemporary with the fossil from Kenya, but they are more than a million years older than the fossil called Ardipithecus ramidus which is a fossil with ape-like feet.
This conflicts with the hypothesis that Ardipithecusis a direct ancestor of later hominins.
Prof. Per Ahlberg involved with the study of the footprints says: 'This discovery challenges the established narrative of early human evolution head-on and is likely to generate a lot of debate. Whether the human origins research community will accept fossil footprints as conclusive evidence of the presence of hominins in the Miocene of Crete remains to be seen.'
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Earlier this year, another group of researchers reinterpreted the fragmentary 7.2 million year old primate Graecopithecus (only known from teeth and jaws) found in Greece and Bulgaria as a hominin.
The Flippist is an artist that creates custom made hand drawn animated flipbooks so you can surprise someone in a very personal and fun way on special occasion, like a wedding proposal or an anniversary. For more information visit his website The Flippist.
Designer Niki Singlaub made Hydaway not only for convenience, but was also inspired to contribute to the reduction of the waste of empty water bottles.
Every minute 90,000 plastic bottles are thrown away so by each one of us using a reusable container this amount can really be reduced significantly.
When you’re not using it; you can fold the Hydaway because it’s so incredibly compact and fits in any pocket, it collapses like an accordion to just over an inch high.
Hydaway is made of flexible, durable silicone that won’t interfere with water’s taste. By unscrewing the top you can also use it like a cup. It is very easy to use daily on the go: in traffic, at workplace, in school, on outings or at events or anywhere else.
Staying hydrated while traveling long distances by plane is very important,
but think of all the water bottles thrown out at airport security?
With this product in your pocket there is no more expensive bottled water purchases and inconvenient security screenings.
Travellers will love to know that you can also clip it to a backpack with the carry handle.
Needless to say that last but not least Hydaway is extremely handy for everyone with an active lifestyle of fitness, athletics and sports. Drinking and staying hydrated go hand in hand with perspiration but when you are out running, hiking or cycling or at the gym you need a practical, easy and light solution so you can move around and/or work out more easily and freely.
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Hydaway can store up to 600 ml (21oz) in its food-grade silicone, but collapses to just over 3.2 cm (1.25in) in height when not in use and weighs only 6 ounces.
Hydaway is an eco-friendly, non-toxic, BPA-free hydration solution made of materials in various fun colours that are tested and certified safe: making it highly suitable for children.
It’s a high quality item: leak-proof, dishwasher safe, and the narrow base lets it fit in most cup holders.
Hydaway can be bought together with a travel case to protect the bottle.
After three years of research, the French company 'New Wind' has installed the first wind trees at Place de la Concorde in Paris.The team of developers installed a prototype in the Pleumeur-Bodou commune in Brittany in northwestern France.
The 26ft trees are fitted with 63 aeroleaves. Tiny blades inside these 'leaves' can generate electricity in wind speeds as low as 4.5 mph regardless of the wind's direction.
The tree has the potential to generate 3,500 kWh to 13,500 kWh a year depending on the wind speed and the location of the tree.
This amount of wind generated energy could provide enough power to supply 15 street lamps, 83% of the electrical consumption of an average family household or one electrical car for 10,168 miles over the course of a year.
An average onshore wind turbine can produce more than 6 million kWh in a year - enough to supply 1,500 average EU households with electricity.
The tree shpuld be profitable after winds of 7.8 mph on average over 1 year.
The trees are also silent, so sound pollution is a thing of the past, this is a great improvement from previous wind turbine designs.
'New Wind' is hoping to expand this concept of clean energy throughout the country and abroad.
For the future Mr. Michaud-Larivière aspires to make an even better tree that has leaves with natural fibres, roots and 'bark' covered with photosensitive cells. These will also be able to generate geothermal energy.
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Similar inspiring and exciting future green concepts are highways (and other locations) enlightened by windturbines by TAK Studio.
And windkites that work with HAWP:
high altitude wind power. A project which is also promoted for crowdfunding at Indiegogo: Flying wind turbine
Top acadamic research states that more than 99% of the entire World Wide Web internet traffick remains hidden in the Deep Web.
To illustrate the difference in accessibility to data and information; this means tens of trillions of pages opposite to the mere billions on the surface of the "regular" internet.
The reason for the difference in finding deep websites or not finding them, lies in the programming and functionality of regular search engines; they are simply not made to browse the Deep Web effectively.
Datamining the Deep Web creates more chances for success because it includes any website that cannot be detected by the Google, Yahoo and other similar search tools (‘crawlers’) to search the internet for sites to fill its results pages.
The Deep Web excists mainly of database-driven websites, and any part of a website that’s past a login page. Going into the Deep Web you can reach temporary sites, sites that are blocked (by local webmasters) and even sites with special formats.
Datamining as appealing as it may seem in the Deep Web is an impossible endeavor to do by hand, because of the vastness of the available data.
There are some bots today however, that can work around the problem and it is worth the effort to do some homework before you begin.
Here are the names of some helpful tools to remember, when considering datamining in the Deep Web:
Tor: short for The Onion Router
HiWE (Hidden Web Exposer)
Stanford's prototype engine
Infoplease
PubMed
University of California's Infomine
BrightPlanet’s Big Data Mining tool: the Deep Web Monitor
The MAS (Multi-agent Information System) a newly proposed deep web data mining algorithm, currently being further developed by researchers from Hebei University in China.
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Keep in mind that Tor (although widely known and used) does not use Javascript, making it difficult for analytics software to mine.
Yusuke Oono, a Japanese designer and architect innovates the art of storytelling entirely with these beautiful fairytales
books that can open up 360°
The 40 page book opens up as a circular fan. The story unfolds itself magically in the cut out detailed figures that appear as it opens in a way by which every illustration of the book is visible at once. It looks much like a 3d paper mini carrousel of a story.
The designer made each of these special books page by page digitally. After this they he cut them out with a laser cutter and bound them together. The artistic series of 360°-cut books were initially unable to be mass produced due to the labour intensitivity of the designs.
Luckily the company named Loftwork who sponsored the contest where Oono’s work gained recognition cooperated together with book publisher Seigensha to make
Snow White and Mount Fuji available to the public.
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We think this original idea is something that will take the enjoyment and experience of reading a bedtime story to your child to the next level.
In an interview on NHK the artists says he likes the positive feedback on his innovations and supports the idea of sharing designs and concepts online through Open Source, which we feel is something to be applauded.
Yes and it is an excellent platform for any Whistleblower activity, however keep in mind that the Deep Web is also known as the Dark Web and some things can not be unseen so use it wisely and always protect yourself from the Dark Side..
