
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Teleportation has been the holy grail of transport for decades. However, though there are occasional reports about scientists having managed to teleport electrons or atoms across a short distance we…
New technology can now provide us with the ability to expore celestial objects in space in detail – without even being there. It sounds mind-blowing, but the projects are here…
We are all familiar with the Google Street View cars making their way across almost all of the world’s nations. What you might not know is that, at nighttime, black…
Today’s fresh food is oftentimes impregnated with more chemicals than anyone actually wants to admit. Sure, organically grown food is taking off in the western world as compared to the…
The 3D-printing hype has been ongoing for the last couple of years. We can now print impressive food creations as well as complex medical implants, so what about scaling things…
The ever-increasing technological innovation pace in medicine and related areas is most probably to provide the people currently walking this earth with opportunities impossible to imagine to the previous part…
What if you could use the camera of your smart phone or wearable to identify and receive interactive information of just about every item you encounter as you live your…
A startup from San Francisco is taking its current business to the next level. Apparently it wants to lend its customers the ability to create custom animals, as well as…
The Berkeley-based startup Endaga has an admirable mission in mind. There are an extensive number of rural communities around the world that are still lacking the telecom infrastructure for making…
Mind-controlled devices seem like something we might only experience in Utopia or in the world of science-fiction. However, the technology is closer in time than one might expect. As often…
One of the main disadvantages with Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies has been that there have not been any mainstream places to spend them; they have been purchased merely as an…
Now it is time to continue with part 2 of yesterday’s article from Mistbreaker News and FrogDesign. You will find that there are quite a number of interesting indicators regarding…
Mistbreaker recently featured the impressive compilation “The Large List of Technologies that will go BIG in 2015”, based upon the predictions of SingularityHub’s Peter Diamandis. Meanwhile we still think that…
Sometimes one stumbles upon pieces of information which leads you to suspect that you just might have missed some important, ongoing development of non-negligible magnitude. Thus, if you already heard…
What if you always knew what you where about to put into your mouth or what the substances are present in the toys your children play with? Whether you worry…
A recent buzzword in the world of engineering is biomimicry. Biomimicry or biomimetics is the imitation of the models, systems, and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human…
Peter Diamandis, founder of the X PRICE Foundation, co-founder of Singularity University and initial force behind an array of impressive companies have made his prediction regarding which technologies will go…
Energy harvesting comes in many shapes and forms, and the progress in for example solar power has been significant during the last decade. However, some bright-minded people think even further…
We have seen endless applications for drones emerge during the past years and their operating areas currently spans everything from marine conservation to attempts of delivery services. However, until now…