The Epson PaperLab – Sustainable Thinking in a Box
There is no secret that Mistbreaker adores sustainability. However, for novel sustainable solutions to gather traction and work in the long term we are utterly convinced that they must be paired with additional business…
Startup aims to remedy World Hunger with Food Powder
Once in a while a story about something innovative comes along that really sticks with you. You cannot really stop thinking about the cleverly simple solution somebody presented to a…
Eco-safe Digester is Rapidly Gaining Success in the Huge Food-waste Market
The UN Environment Program estimates that around one third of the food produced for human consumption gets lost or wasted every year. This is equivalent to 1.3 billion tons of…
Solar Power is turning fully Transparent
Solar power is rolled out over the world at an ever increasing pace with no sign of stopping. However, we are all familiar with the criticism often aimed towards solar…
FishBrain is tapping a Blue Ocean with its Sport Fishing App
As a sport fishing hobbyist, you are constantly searching for that next impressive catch. Watching the faces of others turn green in envy can be just as satisfying as receiving…
Combating Forest Destructing Insects with Data Analysis
The warmer temperatures and drought conditions currently haunting several areas around the world bring consequences for life in different forms. Whereas some animals and plants get a tougher time surviving,…
Turning used Coffee Beans into Fuel in the Circular Economy
A new London-based company is up-cycling coffee grounds into bio-fuel and is part of the growing trend of enterprises focusing on creating a circular economy. Every year the coffee shops…
KinTrans is Converting Sign-language into Voice and Text
Around the world there are over 600 million people who have hearing disabilities. Communicating with society at large can sometimes be difficult when you suffer from a condition that impairs…
Bionic Leaf turns Solar Energy into Liquid Fuel
The demand for fuel is ever increasing as the world becomes more and more industrialized. Thankfully, the investments in green energy are also escalating. Many are the experts that have…
African Startup Gives Physical Addresses to Those Without
There are a lot of people around the world who do not have actual addresses. In fact, they are estimated to be several billion and this complicates several factors in…
Geographically Locating Videos from just Images and Sounds
It might sound just like another contemporary Big Brother –scenario, but recent progress in identifying the location where a video was filmed, only by analyzing the images and sounds, could…
Why Organs-on-a-chip might do Wonders for Medicine
During the last half a year or so, you might have swept by the term organs-on-a-chip in your newsfeed. Maybe the term is not that captivating so you might not…
This Frugal Innovation won the Future Energy Prize
As this webpage often has pointed out, lives around the world are often more different than we think. In the developed world, technology storms forward at such a staggering pace…
The Possible Power of the Solar Tower
Quite a few years ago, some of us became acquainted with a rather interesting way of generating energy from solar power. Various variations of gigantic solar towers were conceptually presented…
Anti-Slavery Software to Clean Up Global Supply Chains
It is not exactly news that our world’s supply chains can be quite complex from time to time. Even though we have observed an increase in concepts such as localized…
This Startup won the Drones for Good Competition of 2015
A team of young European engineers has been announced as the winners of the world’s largest competition for drones. Their contribution truly stands out in its innovative design, and the…
Innovative Company Harvests Green Energy from Water Pipelines
In the ‘sharing economy’ we have seen numerous examples of how underutilized resources can be put to work in our everyday lives. Interestingly enough, this concept of thought applies to…
A Robot Friend to Assist the Elderly
With the positively inclined changes in life expectancy across the world, technologies enhancing well-being of individuals, specifically for older people, are subject to a new stream of research and development.…
Welcome to the Robot Hotel in Nagasaki this Summer
In a sign of the times, Japan is going to open the world’s first hotel staffed almost entirely by robots and controlled by the latest in computer technology. The robots…
Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ Makes Valuable Discoveries on her Own
More and more jobs are getting subjected to the threat of automation, but this is not inherently a bad thing. As it turns out, a currently operating robot scientist and…
Samsung is developing an Early Warning Stroke Detector
In the fiercely competitive landscape of mobile handsets it sometimes seems difficult to stand out from the competition. All the makers of these devices are continuously fishing for features consumers…
Solar-Powered Cars can become Reality this Year
Solar-powered cars have long been an environmentalist wet dream. There have been some interesting concepts emerging during the past years, but nothing has ever come close to being commercially viable.…
Technological Unemployment: Why Copywriters Might be Next
During the last year we have been continuously bombarded with news regarding the future of technological unemployment. The question no longer seems to be if algorithms will actually grab large…
Smart Fire Detector to Save Lives in African Communities
There is a big problem which prevents widespread adoption of smoke detectors in many informal settlements around the globe. Sure, conventional detectors might appear quite costly to the poor people…
Google’s Mission to Create a Cancer Detecting Wristband
For quite a while (at least in technology time units) wearables have been accused of having no really useful functions. However, the last few months we have seen an array…
Great Looking Solar Power is on the Way
One of the largest obstacles when it comes to convincing consumers to invest in solar power for their homes is the actual appearance of the solar panels. Even though some…
Could eSight’s new Glasses Help the Legally Blind to See?
For the past week a viral video has been posted on several tech pages. The video pictures a legally blind woman seeing her newborn baby for the first time, with…
Drone Startup aims to plant One Billion Trees a Year
Global forests and jungles are under increasing pressure from over production of lumber, strip surface mining, and increased land usage for traditional agriculture and urban expansion. In most countries of…
Automated Affection: Robot ‘Handprints’ Personal Letters
Remember the critically acclaimed futuristic movie ‘Her’? If you have not seen it, the short description would be that it is a film about a man who falls in love…
Tech Giants Compete in Space Race to Connect the World
The Internet is so pivotal to commerce and communication that access is starting to be considered a human right. Several tech giants are now setting out with the noble agenda…
