BUY STUFF WITH YOUR FACE? -- Mind Blow #68
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The plant pregnancy project illustrates the impact humans have on plants by encouraging
them to care for plants as lovingly as pets or babies.
And tandem is a water-saving concept for public men's rooms where a sink is combined with
a urinal.
Vsauce! Kevin here. This is MindBlow.
Uniqul allows a user to buy things with their face. The world's first facial recognition
payment system simply requires the customer to confirm their purchase by clicking okay
on a tablet. The system recognizes your face and access your information from its database
and cuts down transaction time to less than 5 seconds. They're preparing to test the system
in Helsinki and in case you're wondering about differentiating identical twins they're going
to need to enter a pin password.
The IH2 Azzurra Hand is the first robotic hand on the market that is human-sized and
able to replicate real human hand functions at human-like speeds. Created by Italian-based
company Prensillia - it can grasp different items at different weights with both power
and precision grasps as well as advanced digit manipulation and sensing abilities. And its
uses range from prosthetics to humanoid robotics and various research applications.
Akira Miyawaki is creating forests to reduce tsunami damage. The 1000 year Kibonooka project
features dense deep rooted trees planted in large mounds created by using debris from
previous tsunami destruction and locating these along the shores in Japan so that they
can greatly reduce the negative impact of future tsunamis by reducing the energy potential
of the wave.
This app lets you know in realtime which restaurants have available seating. The system collects
data throughout the dining experience from seating and ordering to paying the bill by
working with the restaurant's point of sale system - giving real time exact updates depending
on the actual situations happening inside the restaurant - giving users in Japan the
ability to choose a restaurant based on seating availability.
Here's the design for the fold out solar charger for the Volvo V60 Plug In Hybrid. So yeah.
Boxed is furniture in a suitcase. The adaptable furniture designed by Tyrone Stoddart has
the ability to be a coffee table, a desk, two stools, and a lamp. It then can all be
broken down and put back into its case to be carried off to a new location.
Fiberio is a touchscreen that senses fingerprints freeing users from having to carry any other
type of identification. The fiber optic plate the screen uses gives it the ability to both
display images and sense fingerprints at the same time. Applications for this could be
in the workplace where based on your fingerprints the system would only allow you to access
data that you are given cleared for.
Bones of a new dinosaur were found in Utah and they look kinda like a cow and a triceratops
had a baby.
The Medi robot created by the University of Calgary was made to sooth children getting
vaccines. The robot plays with the kids, high fives them and teaches them relaxation techniques
for before during and after their shots. And apparently he also does Tai Chi.
ERO is a concrete recycling robot that disassembles concrete structures using water jets to crack
the surface of the concrete and then suck up the debris. The ERO makes the destruction
of concrete cleaner and more effective because previous systems created huge dusty mounds
of concrete and metal to be sorted through and it also saves a lot of water by recycling
it back through itself.
Finally here's female tungara frog attracted to a potential mate and that is actually a
robotic version of her male counterpart.
I am going to leave you with a gymnastic robot landing a quadruple backflip off of a bar
- and as always thanks for watching.
