SPYCE KITCHEN, a new way to eat

MIT engineering students (in Boston, USA) have invented a fully-automated robot that could be your new chef! It is called SPYCE KITCHEN and features several elements such as a refrigerator, a dishwasher, a stovetop and a robot chef that cooks and serves meals.

Indeed, the fully-equipped robot can prepare meals composed of fresh food at the disposal of users. The ingredients are stocked by the SPYCE staff daily to offer fresh products to the users. All they have to do is to choose their order by using the dedicated mobile and tablet app. They can customize their entire meal, from the different ingredients to the sauce they want. The quantity can also be chosen. When the order is validated, they are transported to one of four automated pots that mix and cook the ingredients all-in-one. Once the meal is ready to eat, it is dispensed on a plate and the pot cleans itself.
This invention could definitely revolutionize our way to eat and represent a new alternative to fast-foods. Despite its small size (two square meters), the SPYCE KITCHEN would be able to produce the half of the production per day of a standard fast food.

INK HUNTER : The new tatoo app

Have you ever thought about getting a tattoo? Or worried if you will regret the moment it is there? And what about the placement? Would it be better on the waist, arm or neck?

This is why INK HUNTER was created! This new app projects your potential future tattoo on your body via your phone screen. 

Here is how the app works: available on the Apple Store, the app asks you to choose a pattern among a large pictures gallery or to upload your own pattern in order to project the image where you would like to have your tattoo. To do so, you just have to draw a smiley on your skin where you would like the tattoo to be. The app will recognize the smiley and the tattoo will appear. Thanks to this app, you will be able to have a more defined idea of what the tattoo you want could look like, and you will equally have the possibility to ask your friends' opinion by sharing it via social medias. 
Here is a new way to avoid awkward tattoos!

What if dogs could detect illnesses?

Well trained, some dogs are capable of detecting illnesses such as cancers: this is what several studies conducted by different medical teams all around the world have confirmed. Everything started through sheer luck : a woman had noticed her dog couldn't stop sniffing the mole she had on her leg. An analyse revealed it was about a carcinoma. Scientists have looked into the situation and have ventured the hypothesis that dogs were able to detect cancers thanks to their sense of smell, which is much more developed than humans' one.

Prostate cancer is the first screening case made by dogs, but the experience has been expanded to other forms of cancers such as breast cancer or lung cancer. This kind of cancer screening has been really convincing with a success rate neighbouring 100%. Those results have encouraged cancer researchers to explore a lead concerning artificial noses which could permit to set up non-invasive cancer screenings. 

London : pigeons patrol to measure air quality

The company Plume Labs has developed small devices called Plume Air Sensors, which are able to analyse the air and can determine the rates of nitrogen dioxide, ozone and volatile organic compound. Then Plume Labs has equipped around ten pigeons with those engines. Thus, thanks to their application and website, they can read on an interactive map the levels of pollution of the neighborhoods the pigeons have been flying through. The project is still being tested and the "pigeon test phase" last three days. The Plume Air Patrol is composed of about ten pigeons, each of them is equipped with a Plume Air Sensors that is worn like a backpack. Furthermore, if a London citizen tweets the place he/she is with the mention @PigeonAir, he/she should receive an information report concerning the pollution levels of the concerned place. The limited number of pigeons is not enough to receive a sufficient amount of information and a complete analysis of the London air, but that is enough to start an advertising campaign. The next step (which has already started) for the company is to equip around a hundred of citizens with the Plume Air Sensor. The main objective of the company being to combine all the received data and their application to propose to anyone to check air quality around them.