Tag: invention
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This Ingenious Rocking Chair Knits a Beanie Just By Rocking In It!
In 2012, ECAL students Damien Ludi and Colin Peillex created the “Rocking-Knit“, an ingenious rocking chair that uses its own kinetic motion to effortlessly knit a hat. According to the inventors: “Rocking-Knit is a new interpretation of the rocking chair. It offers its user productive moments of relaxation. The to-and-fro movement of this armchair knits…
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Inventor Creates Robotic “Smart” Planter That Chases the Sun to Keep Plants in Sunlight
You've probably noticed before and wondered why it happens… your plants seem to grow towards the direction of sunlight. It's called heliotropism and is a phenomenon where leaves point in the direction of the light—the source of their nutrients. Most of the time, you’ve got to position your plants just right so that they are getting the…
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The Forest and the Trees: Deep Learning and Object Recognition
The race to object recognition is on, and you’ve probably seen tons about the upcoming release of Microsoft HoloLens and Snapchat Spectacles V2. However, while the race to artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing achievements in complex machine learning, speech recognition (eg. Amazon Alexa and Apple Inc’s Siri), and the development of artificial neural networks, the advancements…