Vibration meditation: The gadget that calms by purring on you
March Mindfulness is an annual Mashable series that explores the intersection of meditation practice and technology. Because even in 2022, March doesn't have to be madness. The first time a friend with anxiety disorder told me about the Sensate, I wa.....»»
Amazon Prime Day 2021: All the deals that are actually worth your time
We picked through piles of Prime Day garbage to find the actual good stuff. Enlarge (credit: Ars Technica) Amazon Prime Day has arrived, and another avalanche of deals has come along with it. As ever, the vast majority of the gadget and gear d.....»»
Amazon Appears To Have Removed RavPower, a Popular Phone Battery and Charger Brand
A month ago, Amazon-first gadget brands Aukey and Mpow suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from the giant online retailer's storefront, with almost all their electronics vanishing from Amazon's shelves. Today, popular battery and charger brand RavP.....»»
Neck-Zapping Gadget Reduced All-Nighter Fatigue in New Study
And the benefits of two four-minute sessions persisted for hours -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com.....»»
Controlling magnetization by surface acoustic waves
Using the circular vibration of surface acoustic waves, a collaborative research group have successfully controlled the magnetization of a ferromagnetic thin film......»»
Inovio’s Electrical Device Zaps a COVID-19 Vaccine Into the Body
Can a handheld gadget usher in a new era of vaccines? Spencer Lowell It took a global pandemic to accomplish one of the most significant advances in the history of vaccinology: widespread, commercial deployment of vacci.....»»
House of Marley’s new headphones look to provide ‘powerful sound with a purpose’
Crafted from recyclable aluminum, House of Marley's Positive Vibration XL ANC wireless headphones provide sustainable sound......»»
Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon Wage War on Gadget Right-to-Repair Laws
For years, technology companies have imposed strict limits on who can fix chipped iPhones, broken game consoles and a wealth of other non-working (or defective) gadgets. From a report: Components are kept in short supply or simply not shared with ind.....»»
Liquid Instruments raises $13.7M to bring its education-focused 8-in-1 engineering gadget to market
Part of learning to be an engineer is understanding the tools you’ll have to work with — voltmeters, spectrum analyzers, things like that. But why use two, or eight for that matter, where one will do? The Moku:Go combines several commonly use.....»»
Logitech Scribe is a $1,200 AI-powered whiteboard camera for hybrid workspaces
It looks like a table lamp mounted horizontally, but Logitech's new Scribe whiteboard camera is designed to help presenters deliver their content effortlessly during virtual meetings. The $1,200 gadget comes with a custom lens and built-in AI that en.....»»
After going public, once-hot startups are riding a valuation roller coaster
This is why I only buy index funds. No one knows what anything (interesting) is worth. To close out the week, a short meditation on value, or, more precisely, how assets are valued in today’s markets. Do you recall the pre-direct-list.....»»
New material could better protect soldiers, athletes and motorists
Soldiers, athletes, and motorists could lead safer lives thanks to a new process that could lead to more efficient and re-useable protection from shock and impact, explosion, and vibration, according to a new study......»»
10 deals you don’t want to miss on Saturday: Fire TV Stick 4K, viral gadget from TikTok, waterproof portable speaker, more
The weekend has finally arrived... and it brought some fantastic daily deals with it! Highlights from Saturday's top deals roundup include Amazon's beloved $50 Fire TV Stick 4K for $39.99 (the same price as the cheaper Fire Stick!), best-selling Gosu.....»»
How a year of living almost exclusively online made the internet weird again
On the audio-based app Clubhouse, people are gathering in virtual rooms to make whale moaning noises or to participate in silent meditation together. Hundreds of people on the popular gaming platform Discord started a server where they just send each.....»»
Model describes interactions between light and mechanical vibration in microcavities
Optomechanical microcavities are extremely small structures with diameters of less than 10 micrometers (about a tenth of a human hair) inside which light and mechanical vibrations are confined. Thanks to their small size and to efficient microfabrica.....»»
The time is ripe! An innovative contactless method for the timely harvest of soft fruits
In agriculture, there are many mechanical methods to indirectly measure a fruit's ripeness through its firmness. However, most fall short for soft fruits, which do not exhibit the same types of measurable vibration as harder ones. Now, scientists fro.....»»
MWC Shanghai: Gadget companies gather for rare pandemic tech expo
New products include a phone that fully charges in 20 minutes and an under-screen selfie camera......»»
Chorus brings a social layer to meditation
Chorus launched its online experience on March 16 of last year. It was fairly auspicious timing, as those things go, falling the same day seven public health departments launched a joint shelter-in-place order in its native California. Like countless.....»»
Investigating the wave properties of matter with vibrating molecules
The working group led by Prof. Stephan Schiller, Ph.D. from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) has used a novel, high-precision laser spectroscopic experiment to measure the internal vibration of the simplest molecule. This allowed the resea.....»»
Two Health Sensors Unite in One Powerful Gadget
The tattoo-like skin patch tracks blood pressure and heart rate while monitoring alcohol and caffeine levels What’s not to love about a good flexible health sensor? Someday technology based on such bendable electronic tech might wel.....»»
Human eye beats machine in archaeological color identification test
A ruler and scale can tell archaeologists the size and weight of a fragment of pottery—but identifying its precise color can depend on individual perception. So, when a handheld color-matching gadget came on the market, scientists hoped it offered.....»»