MEDOLOGY
- Meet The Solar-Powered Sea Slug That's Half Animal, Half Plant
- Exoskin: The Pneumatically Powered Changing Interface
- You Can Have Your Own Personal IoT With MESH
- First Ever Ocean Plastic Cleanup Device Being Tested This Week
| When we think of animals and plants, we have a pretty good way of dividing them into two distinct groups: one converts sunlight into energy and the other has to eat food to make its energy. Well, those dividing lines come crashing down with the discovery of a sea slug that is truly half animal and half plant. It's official name is Elysia chlorotica and it's pretty incredible how it has managed to hijack the genes of the algae on which it feeds. The slugs can manufacture chlorophyll, the green pigment in plants that captures energy from sunlight and hold these genes within its body. |
| Exoskin is one of the world's leading programmable material that gives life to inert materials in everyday objects. Exoskin is a cutting edge technology set to bring human and environmental interaction to new heights by providing a movable and intractable composite device to sense, react, and bring in a whole new level of customizability to concurrent technology. There was a time when a separate device was needed to check the time, make a call, listen to the radio, and look up a destination. Technological advancements have combined the best of everyday technologies into one complete device, one that billions of people share, connect, and interact with around the world, every day – that significant device being a handheld computer or cell phone. |
| IoT is a buzzword that you can't really escape from in the present day. If you've heard the word, but still aren't sure what IoT means here's a short definition from the MESH website: "IoT is an abbreviation for the 'Internet of Things'. The idea behind it is that by having a sensor pick up information from something and connect it to the Internet, not only will it allow you to exchange information between things and humans, but also between the things themselves." All of us wonder when our world will be fitted with smart objects, roads, buildings, and cities. |
| [Image Source: Ocean Cleanup] Modern oceans have become polluted with millions of tons of plastic, killing wildlife and harming the environment. This plastic waste is a problem that needs to be addressed, and one Dutch company is setting out to find a practical solution to clean the oceans. The Ocean Cleanup just unveiled their first working prototype this week, and it is going to be installed in a few days. 23 kilometers off of the Dutch coast in the North Sea will be the first location to see this innovative device, where it will undergo practical testing. |
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