BeON Home is a smart LED light bulbs that learn and replicate your everyday interaction with your light switches to deliver effective and preventative home security. The smart lighting system carries a backup rechargeable battery to ensure the light will stay on even if the power goes out. The light bulbs provide 800 lumens (about… Continue reading BeON Home Smart Light Bulbs
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How to Erase CD/DVD Discs
Photonicinduction gave us a demonstration of how to permanently wipe all the data from a CD or DVD discs using 240,000 volts of electricity. Watch the data on the CD just totally vanish in the video below.
Topaz Solar Farm: The World’s Largest Solar Plants
Topaz Solar Farm is an ongoing construction projects of a solar photovoltaic power plant located in San Luis Obispo County, California. The project began in November 2011 and is scheduled to finish in 2015. Once it is completed, the plant is expected to produce sufficient electricity to power approximately 160,000 average California homes. The 550-megawatt Solar Farms… Continue reading Topaz Solar Farm: The World’s Largest Solar Plants
iPad Charger Explosion in UK
Tim Gillooley, 34, suffered a huge electric shock when he reached down to unplug his daughters charger at his mother’s house in Widnes, Cheshire. Gillooley said he believes his eight-year-old daughter Chloe would most likely have been killed had it been her, instead of him, who had touched the device. Gillooley was burnt by the shock, which threw him across… Continue reading iPad Charger Explosion in UK
Woman Dies from Electric Shock After Answering Her iPhone 5
Ma Ailun, a 23-year-old flight attendant with China Southern Airlines, allegedly suffered a massive electric shock as she picked up her new iPhone 5 to answer a call while it was charging, which led to her death. The phone and its accessories have been handed over to the Chinese authorities for examination. Ma bought her iPhone 5… Continue reading Woman Dies from Electric Shock After Answering Her iPhone 5
Electrical Workers Playing with High Voltage Power Lines
Watch what happens when these trained professional electrical workers get their hands near a power line. Checkout the video below.
Electronic System Turns Human Face Into an Instrument
Japanese artist Daito Manabe works on a experimental music performance system that uses electrical sensors to either transmit music into muscular twitches or control music by facial movements. Taking the role of programmer, designer, DJ, VJ, and composer on each of his projects, Manabe experiment with myoelectric sensors to turn people’s faces into human drum machine. Watch some of Manabe’s test… Continue reading Electronic System Turns Human Face Into an Instrument
Urine-Powered Generator Invented By Four African Girls
Four African teenage girls have created the world’s first urine-powered generator. The girls’ invention premiered at the Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. According to the Maker Faire, the urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen, then hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the… Continue reading Urine-Powered Generator Invented By Four African Girls