Micro Mobility is a Swiss company that recently presented its latest invention called the Micro Luggage.
The invention was developed to help users when they rush to the boarding gate. The new type of luggage represents a mix of a wheeled suitcase and a little scooter.
Whenever you feel like you can lose your flight, just fold down the kickboard that is incorporated in the back of the suitcase, grab that handlebars, adjust it to the height that's comfortable for you and push yourself along.
The Micro Luggage will help you move faster with the help of its rubber (polyurethane) wheels.
Due to the fact that both handlebars and wheels don't turn, you will be able to steer by leaning in the desired direction.
The luggage was designed to be able to carry load weighting up to 100 kg (220.5 lb). It can be used for short trips.
Micro Luggage measures 22 inches (55.9 cm) in height, 13.5 inches (34.3 cm) in width and 10 inches (25.4 cm) in depth, which means that it should fit in a normal size overhead luggage compartment.
Inside the suitcase you will be able to find one compartment for a laptop, one for business cards and one for folders. This will make it very easy to access various office materials.
It would be interesting to note that the firm's Wim Ouboter came up with the system after teaming up with travel luggage specialist Samsonite.
Currently the Micro Luggage wears a price tag of US$249.99.
It is an everyday occurrence that you want to be included in the photograph with your family and friends, but end up being the photographer. The Not One Less is a concept that allows you to be in the picture. It has a dual lens, one that focuses on the main subjects and the other on the photographer.
Look out, silicon. IBM has managed to create a computer chip based on newer carbon-nanotube technology with more than 10,000 transistors. While that’s still a drop in the bucket compared to the billions of transistors on today’s state-of-the-art silicon microprocessors, it’s an important step in proving the viability of the new tech.
You may have heard of Moore’s Law, which says that the number of transistors that can be put in a computer chip doubles every 18 months. That “law” has held true for four decades, successfully predicting the rapid evolution of computers and smartphones.
However, it’s not a law like, say, Boyle’s Law, which is an inviolable tenet of physics. Moore’s Law is just a prediction, and it’s about to collide with those real physical laws in the next few years as transistors approach the limit of how small they can get. What then?
IBM has an answer in the form of a relatively new technology: carbon nanotubes. Each tube is an atom thick, rolled up in a cylinder (one is shown above). Carbon nanotubes actually conduct electricity better than silicon, have the perfect shape to act as a transistor and, most importantly, can scale smaller.
However, they’re also much harder to work with, which is why no one’s pursued the tech until recently. They have to be aligned perfectly and metallic impurities, which naturally occur, must be completely removed.
IBM has met those challenges, however, not only creating a 10,000-transistor-strong processor based on carbon nanotubes, but doing it with standard semiconductor techniques. That means, should today’s chipmakers end up switching to the technology, they wouldn’t have to spend billions creating new tools and production facilities.
It would also mean Moore’s Law could get a new lease on life, just through a different technology. And the gadget market, which has been reliant on introducing newer and more powerful gadgets year after year, should be safe for another decade at least.
Recently, a yacht that Steve Jobs designed just before he passed away, has been spotted in Europe.
The beautiful large white "Venus" was spotted in the city of Aalsmeer, The Netherlands. Its main design feature is the already-famous minimalist clean white lines that users could see for the first time in the iPod.
The water vehicle is bordered by large glass panels. There're Star Trek-style sliding doors that provide entrance to the main deck.
In the video you can also see an array of seven 27-inch iMacs that display nautical information.
It took Jobs several years to design the yacht and he worked together with the famous contemporary French designer Philippe Starck.
According to some of the information leaked online the length of the yacht is between 70 and 80 meters.
Steve Jobs' yacht Venus unveiled in Aalsmeer, The Netherlands [VIDEO]
For more than four nerve-racking minutes, he was a tiny white speck against a dark sky, hurtling from 24.5 miles above the Earth at up to 834mph.
Then his parachute opened and five minutes later, to the relief of the millions watching, ‘Fearless Felix’ Baumgartner was back on solid ground – having made the
highest and fastest skydive in history.
After flying to an altitude of 39,045 meters (128,100 feet) in a helium-filled balloon, Felix Baumgartner completed a record breaking jump for the ages from the edge of space, exactly 65 years after Chuck Yeager first broke the sound barrier flying in an experimental rocket-powered airplane.
Felix reached a maximum of speed of 1,342.8 km/h (833mph) through the near vacuum of the stratosphere before being slowed by the atmosphere later during his 4:20 minute long freefall.
In the process, the 43-year-old Austrian became the first freefall diver to break the sound barrier, and also broke the record for the highest-ever manned balloon ascent.
For many, it was the first they had heard of ‘Fearless Felix’. But, in fact, his plunge — the highest and fastest yet made by a skydiver — was only the crowning achievement on a career that has seen him make more than 2,600 jumps, most of them utterly terrifying.
Baumgartner has jumped from a plane and flown across the Channel with wings strapped to his back. He’s jumped off the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, and the 101-storey Taipei Tower in Taiwan.
The king of base jumpers, Baumgartner loved nothing better than finding a bridge or building that no one had ever tried to parachute from. He preferred illegal jumps as it was ‘more fun’.
He jumped off anything from the Mandalay Casino in Las Vegas to the Olympic Tower in Munich, but it wasn’t until 1999 that he really grabbed the world’s attention.
In April of that year, he jumped from the 1,479ft Petronas Twin Towers in Malaysia — then the world’s highest man-made structure. And, in December, he proved that when it came to base jumping, low jumps could be even more terrifying than high ones when he stepped off the outstretched hand of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer statue, which is just 95ft high.
The Austrian — whose other passions are boxing, mountain climbing, motocross and rally driving — claims his body is starting to ‘creak’ and that he has plans to ‘retire’ and become a helicopter rescue pilot. We will believe that when we see it.
Felix admits, however, that one thing makes him nervous — his mum fussing and telling him to ‘be careful’ all the time.
One would have thought poor Mrs Baumgartner — holding back the tears as she watched his descent from mission control on Sunday — had given up fretting years ago.
But, then, when it comes to a mother’s love, the sky’s the limit.
Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall from 128k' - Mission Highlights [VIDEO]:
This suitcase is equipped with receivers that communicate with the smartphone in order to make the luggage follow its owner wirelessly, moving on caterpillar tracks based on compressed air.
Dubbed the Hop, the suitcase tries to follow the user at a specific distance. However, in case the distance is too great and the signal is lost, the suitcase instantly locks itself and the user receives a vibration on their phone that informs about it.
Another interesting feature is that the several suitcases can be programmed to follow one another.
There are 3 different bits of tech in the valise that receive, identify and triangulate signals captured from the user's smartphone. The relative location of the suitcase relative to the smartphone is estimated with the help of a microcontroller.
There’s nothing worse than watching your mobile device’s battery slowly slip away, and who wants to lug around a phone charger? Those built-in battery cases are typically clunky and heavy too.
A new Kickstarter project aims to take frustration out of the equation for female iPhone users thanks to a series of stylish wristlet and clutch purses with built-in wireless power. Called the Everpurse, its internal 2500 milliamp battery will keep you going all day and throughout the night, whether you have an iPhone 4, 4S or the latest 5 model. The company plans to develop an Android-compatible Everpurse, as well.
The device starts charging when you place it into one of the purse’s pockets. Everpurse owners will have to eventually charge its battery pack with an AC adapter, which is typical for most charging packs.
“You shouldn’t have to decide between fashion and function,” the company says on its Kickstarter page. “You can leave home early in the morning, go through a full day of work (Facebooking, Instagramming, games, calls and web surfing) and still have hours and hours left of battery when you go out to dinner or party into the early morning.”
Although the project launched earlier this week, it has already accumulated more than $60,000 from backers. But it’s still about $40,000 shy of its target goal. All orders which start at $99 for fabric and $129 for leather come with a charging mat.
