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…
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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…
Teleportation of Things by Destructive 3D-printing
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…
NASA will Explore Mars with Microsoft’s HoloLens
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…
Firms are Gathering Energy Escape Data while You Sleep
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…
Open-source Aquaponics Project wants to end World Hunger
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…
3D-printed Houses with Local Mud as Building Material
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…
Groundbreaking Implant Could Help Paralyzed Walk Again
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…
Towards an Interactive Encyclopedia of Physical Objects
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…
Controversial Startup wants to let Customers Create Customized Life
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…
Startup sets out to bring Cellular Access to the Last Billion
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…
Researchers Report Great Progress in Wireless Brain-Computer Interfaces
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…
Banks Beware: 3D-printed Bitcoin Terminals given away for Free in Germany
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…
FrogDesign’s Respected Trends of 2015 List Released (Part 2)
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…
FrogDesign’s Respected Trends of 2015 List Released (Part 1)
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…
Synthetic Biology is Discretely Targeted by Tech Giants
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…
Interesting Invention: A Food-scanner that fits in Your Pocket
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…
Tree-shaped Wind-turbines shows Biomimicry at its Best
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…
The Large List of Technologies that will go BIG in 2015
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…
Impressive Startup Profitably Harvests Energy from Human Footsteps
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…
Intelligent Inventory Drones: The Flying Robots Just Came Indoors
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…