💡 Innovation
🦈 Drones will protect surfers from sharks - and sharks from people
Drones can detect sharks long before they pose a danger to surfers and swimmers and reduce the risk of sharks becoming entangled and dying in safety nets around beaches.
🤖 BB - a beach-cleaning robot
BeachBot is a mobile beach cleaning robot which picks up cigarette butts from the sand and disposes them into safe bins. The robot uses an AI-detection algorithm to find the butts.
🚀 Jim O'Shaughnessy launches new venture for creators
Wall Street legend, Jim O'Shaughnessy, is looking for creators around the globe.
🤖 Robot collects rare minerals from the seafloor
A company has proven that sustainable ocean mining is possible with the world's first hovering robot.
🔋 Seasalt batteries - a cheap, green alternative to lithium
Researchers have designed a cheap new sea salt battery with four times the energy storage capacity of lithium.
😮 Internet pioneer: IKEA almost decided to become Amazon, before Amazon
In the late 1990s, a Swedish internet pioneer's masterstroke made IKEA into Europe's largest e-commerce business. But he also proposed that IKEA should do the very thing that Jeff Bezos later did with Amazon.
🚗 Car powered by the sun is soon coming to the US
In the beginning of next year a car powered by the sun called Squad solar electric city car is coming to the US.
🧪 Chemical process turns non-recyclable PVC into useful materials
New research from the University of Michigan has targeted one of the most difficult materials to reuse, namely PVC (polyvinyl chloride) and created a chemical process which can turn this previously non-recyclable material into something useful.
💊 Cure for MS-like disease
Immunotherapy, inspired by revolutionary cancer treatment, eliminates disease-causing cells in MS-like disease.