The industry is already able to make plastic from sugar plants

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New research published in Energy and Environmental Science, a team from the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and the University of Madison, Wisconsin has described an efficient and economical process for producing HMF, Hydroxymethylfurfural, a compound derived from plants and considered crucial in the development of a renewable economy.

E-commerce also runs on smartphones

Lecommerce also runs on smartphones

As of 31 December 2016, a total of 45,2 million mobile telephone devices were active in Italy, with old "mobile phones" numbering around 12 million, down by 6% per year. This means, therefore, that there are more than 33 million Italians who use smartphones, whose penetration rate rose to 73 percent of the population last year. Not just phone calls It seems obvious to write it, but today the smartphone is successful because it allows you to carry out ... Read more

Can we go back to walking with Cyber ​​Therapy?

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A new hope for those trying to walk again comes from technology, and precisely from Cybertherapy. What is it about? Virtual reality comes to our rescue, with a special super-technological "cave" in which to "immerse ourselves" to carry out physical and cognitive rehabilitation. They are called "Cave", and are two virtual rooms installed at the IRCCS Auxologico Italiano in Milan where virtual immersive Telepresence (Tiv) is experimented. In the caves you can simulate typical scenarios in which some disorders are treated, including cognitive ones in ... Read more

Here is the smart window that needs no curtains

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The curtains, what a stress! You have to wash them, iron them, hang them, remove them, clean them, open them, close them... but isn't there a simpler and more intelligent method for darkening windows in 2016? This is what Harvard researchers must have thought, as they are designing a "smart" window to do without curtains altogether. The producers of solar awnings will be unhappy, but housewives and those who generally take care of home maintenance will be much happier. The new generation window, in fact,… Read more

The app that allows you to see is coming

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It's called Aipoly and it's an app that allows blind or partially sighted people to "see" what's around them. Aipoly is an artificial intelligence app that allows you to explore the world in a different way, through a technology that communicates what you are framing with a guiding voice, obviously thanks to the use of the smartphone camera. The app currently allows you to identify around 1.000 different objects and 900 colors in real time. Aipoly was presented for the first… Read more