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10 Coolest Inventions of 2016

2016-12-30
three-two-one Wow mommy I need Thee that's crazy that's like really good sound to the music very very clearly as well oh my god these are just like really you can't hear it okay here we go away what's that what's its brand called what is it called this is sungki listening to music and answering phone calls are available jungle Panther yo what do you have - nothing much just hanging on my place right now what's up yeah I'll be right over in a little bit cool later bone conduction speakers transmit sound waves to the skull via vibrations thing should keep up to yourself so tell me why this is how I tell you now listen you why do we keep it all to yourself now who try to sing this telling you you yeah it's really good volume I can yeah everything it's amazing it's amazing how I hear the sounds coming through yeah so funny well Otto hey dress nobody music yeah oh wow that's really cool that's crazy yeah ah you well nowadays people take thousands of pictures with their cell phones but they never look at them so we decided to create an object that will make them able to share pictures with their their friends and family in a tangible way print is the first smartphone case that prints out pictures instantly you just have to create your smartphone snap a picture and imprint instantly we worked during a year on about 15 different prototypes to come up with one product that's really easy to use for example it doesn't use Bluetooth technology or Wi-Fi you can take a picture but you can also use pictures from Facebook Instagram any picture that is already on your smart my biggest design challenge was to create and objects that will work with different type of smartphones who are compatible with the iPhone 5 the iPhone 6 and also the galaxy s4 in galaxy s5 and we're trying to bring it to more smartphones we don't need any ink cartridge all the ink is already in the paper you just have to hit it and the picture will appear like like magic like I said what we really love about instant cameras is the whole experience so we try to capture it by recording your short videos at five six seconds just before you take a picture this video will play automatically on the paper through augmented reality when you scan it with our app we wanted to go further than just printing pictures we wanted to bring memories that you could hold in your hands and that you could give away whenever you wanted print is for everybody because everybody likes a printed picture that you can hold in your hand you know it's like a memory that you can give away Trista Stowe must stop this shake and this is gone water is one of the world's most fundamental elements it makes them about 70% of the Earth's surface and a similar percentage of our bodies each day we have an intimate interaction with water for most of us this starts with our showers our showers are deeply personal our lone time to wake up to think to rejuvenate to unwind at Nebbia we set out to see if we can make this important part of our daily rituals better in every way we started with a nice Carlos one of our co-founders ran a large Fitness Club company and was deeply concerned about the high use of water together with his father Emilio a search for a solution it turns out showers are one of the highest wasters of water and there hasn't been any meaningful innovation over a century nearly five years later dozens of prototypes built we've had 500 people try it and now we think we've built something pretty special imagine being totally embraced by water from the moment you step into your shower imagine an experience with water so moving you never want to step out your skin feels soft and hydrated maybe is about experiencing water in a way that you never have before to innovate on the shower experience we had to look outside of the current industry and approach the engineering problem from a completely new angle the last half century of nozzle technology has completely changed what we can do with droplet sizes and distribution however this technology has only been applied to very specialized fields like rocket engines and medical devices we use these same tools and technology to develop Nebadon what we do is atomized streams of water into millions of tiny droplets by doing this we can achieve 10 times the surface area of water compared to a regular shower while using a fraction of the volume I just got out of my first nevia shower it was a totally unique experience and I loved it I was getting hit with these little water droplets I love the feeling all the droplets hitting your skin it's like you're being enveloped by water and as an Airbnb host there are a lot of showers going on in my place and this is important you know this thing is it not only make the experience better for my guests but it saves me money I felt great it was a really fun comfortable experience the whole thing just felt awesome I could take that shower every day we put nebula to the test on average Americans take about eight minutes to shower for the normal shower that's over 20 gallons of water for the Nebbia it's only six that's seventy percent less water we built Nebbia to be easy to install you simply unscrew your existing shower and screw on Nebu with a wrench some plumbers tape and included adhesive you don't have to call the plumber or break tile in addition Nivea slides up and down a couple of feet pivots at an angle and includes a portable wand which you can position wherever you choose Nebbia provides a totally new and refreshing shower experience we've partnered with world-class design firm box clever to create a design that is both beautiful and intuitive yet offers a totally new degree of adjustability on top of that the water and energy savings just makes sense we've set out to build a company that will transform the way we interact with water over the course of the next few decades we've assembled a team of thermal fluids experts to solve some of the difficult engineering challenges that have prevented innovation in showers for a long time and finally we're ready to bring that e to the world power a complete power plant in one small handheld device a groundbreaking new technology Kraftwerk it's a highly efficient fuel cell it offers you freedom the freedom of power live your life without any restrictions fast mobile power up all your electronic devices wherever you are it's an unprecedented breakthrough Kraftwerk offers you the freedom to choose the best place everywhere be independent of the electric grid forever be relaxed you have your craft work with you outdoors craft work is absolutely vital even after weeks craft work allows you to stay connected with those you love Kraftwerk makes things easier it keeps working and working you'll never have to go back refuel craft work within seconds to be free for weeks again just spray once with any standard lighter gas available on every street corner serious freedom for us a serious responsibility craft work is fully recyclable free of poisoning materials and capable of using gas from renewable sources in an efficient way consuming less energy you can use all your electronic devices with craft work with just one plug no adaptors traveling around the world everyone needs craft work because freedom is our most fundamental achievement feel free be free forever with craft work your enduring personal companion rest achingly light absolutely robust Kraftwerk developed by this creative team and more than 20 other developers protected by 27 patent applications oh hi I'm Alex uh a year ago my friend Jonathan and I started working on a new type of computer care we call it can oh and we're really excited to show you it today we designed it for all ages all over the world and it gets you coding right away hi Alyssa hi as kids we loved playing games and building things with Lego but today the tools are different today we have cheap computers we have free software and we started Kanno in order to make these tools accessible for everyone for fun and purpose now the Challenger Kanna was said by Mika Alex's seven-year-old cousin I want you to make this a simple and fun and Becca make out a point and it's not just seven-year-old I think a lot of us you know we're amazed what an amazing time to be alive we're fascinated by this but we we have no way to get in the available resources they're tough there isn't a simple fun way to get starving we wanted to do something different so we went around the world we talked to hundreds of kids parents teachers educators artists and we came up with Kanna it's based on three principles simple steps storytelling physical computing and tying them all together a sense of play and exploration you plug in the pieces you build a computer your own computer you build a case you customize it with your own designs you build an amazing DIY speaker you code games like snake and pong you dive into the command line and explore you get to know your computer you hack up games like minecraft and at the end of it all you look back and you realize wow you've actually learned something you've got a new type of skill a new way of expressing yourself and one that's going to be very very useful we think in the future as computers have gotten more complicated they've grown harder to understand it's more important than ever to give kids away in or they won't be ready for the future but it's wonderful to see the kids making a changing call with the Kano with the kind of computer gives the power to crate back to the people it gives people the tools to create it gives people the mindset to think that okay this was once closed but now was open we made it consistent we made the crudest confusion it felt like you were actually the person who made it so like you you weren't just playing it you felt like you actually made it so as you can see we got great feedback and now we're coming to Kickstarter because we want to make a bigger production and we want you to help us shape it and make it happen we spent the last few months working with the right suppliers preparing our production schedule and most importantly building a team of people from six different countries that are going to help us make it happen and bring counter to you we've designed new plug-and-play Hardware for this amazing simple out-of-the-box experience it's so much fun and we think you're going to love it on top of that we powered up the pie with these great software game's levels projects and also fixes an interface that's more intuitive and more familiar we want to make more kits of course but we also want to push these updates back into the open source community we think that together all of us we have the chance to do something really cool we can give a new generation the ability to create with technology rather than just consume it and that's something that we think is really worthwhile folding bikes haven't changed in over 30 years they use small wheels and hinged frames that sacrifice performance and ride ability in order to achieve a compact size they are heavy awkward to use but worst of all they don't actually fold that small we wanted to create a folding bike with big wheels a bike that looks strides and feels like a normal bike but could still fold small smaller than any other folding bike it also had to be lightweight easy to use and exceptionally safe introducing helix helix is a revolutionary new folding bike it has 24-inch wheels but one piece titanium frames and a patent-pending locking system that is free of hinges and clamps seelix can go anywhere ride it to work put it in the trunk of your car for your next road trip take it on your next vacation set out to design the modern whole device that didn't compromise ride ability for sides using patent-pending helical hinges we were able to put the wheels is nice the frame and between the crank arms helix was created using modern computer aided design and manufacturing process these uses the latest bicycle technology helix improves on decades-old folding bike designs in every possible way it rides better fold smaller and a safer and easier to use Manufacturing a folding bike is difficult Manufacturing a folding bike that pushes the limited performance compact Ness and usability requires a hands-on approach and a high level of control over the entire process that's why helix will be made in Canada we're a group of designers engineers and manufacturing experts we're also passionate cyclists our goal is to make the best folding bike in the world we will oversee the entire manufacturing process right here at home we're ready and excited to go with your help we can make it happen I always felt that watching a record spin is just mesmerizing what's more iconic than the record player it's beautiful to truly experience vinyl we have to see it what if we could create a record player that played vertically what if we could create floating lap yeah let's be the stars and bring space to smile and Grandma box is an audio design startup based out of Chicago we reimagine vintage audio design with modern technology creating a good turntable on its own is challenging creating a high-performance turntable that functions vertically is a feat at grandma Vox we have some of the best designers engineers and audio files out there we sought to create a high performance record player meant as much for the first time vinyl listener as the person with their $10,000 so no compromises it wasn't just a design piece or technology piece it was a marriage of beautiful design and innovative technology coming into one something that was inviting and that was simple beautiful but functionally it had to be an all-in-one well you didn't need to buy additional cables preamps and speakers we wanted to create a vinyl listening experience that was ready to go right out of the box we had to have full range dynamic drivers for great bass response and allowing you the option of bypassing the internal speakers and connecting it to an existing audio setup we were ruthless in the engineering too sure every part of the product that works in a horizontal context worked flawlessly in the vertical format somehow going through a bin in a record store getting an actual album the sleeve the inserts the typography the whole notion of discovery that is all an extension of the final experience that this role experience just gives you goosebumps let's turn something we can see artists both indie and mainstream are releasing their albums on vinyl in addition to digital formats vinyl is not a fad it's here to stay because it's the best way to experience music I fell through I moved in to save I see let's you you you you you
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