Pattern-changing shirts react to pollution and radiation

As air pollution becomes a bigger concern in communities around the globe, creative ways to detect it are beginning to proliferate. We've seen smartphone sensors proposed, as well as portable personal pollution monitors and even backpack-wearing, pollution-monitoring pigeons. Now, a designer out of New York City has released a line of shirts that change to solid black when they are contaminated by pollutants. But they're not cheap.

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Category: Good Thinking





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• Fashion



• Pollution

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Lost your car keys? Now Gida Yoky Tag will help track your lost belongings

Bengaluru: Gida, a Bengaluru-based startup has today launched a wireless device that can be attached to valuables like keys and wallet, which will ...

Ford Raptor packs in Baja mode for off-road shenanigans

As traction control, engine mapping and suspension systems become more sophisticated, it's becoming possible to change a car's character at the push of a button. In the Ford F-150 Raptor, those drive modes will let you turn your road-going truck into everything from a rock-crawler to a wannabe-Baja racer.

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Category: Automotive





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• Off-road



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CMPD searches for men accused of carjacking 74-year-old woman at gunpoint

Sandra Summers, 74, pulled her car into the parking lot of McAlpine Terrace ... “I'll kill you if you don't give me your pocketbook and your car keys.”.

Rolls-Royce's first pure concept car puts the future on notice

Concept cars are meant to push the edges of what's possible, but the Rolls Royce Vision Next 100 (codenamed 103EX) has taken that idea to a level that most other brands could only hope to achieve. Revealed earlier today at the London Roundhouse, Rolls Royce's first-ever pure concept in its 105-year history is a fully autonomous vehicle that for all intents and purposes is a rolling luxury living room.

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Category: Automotive





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• Rolls Royce



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Rebooting the immune system fights off early MS

"Have you tried turning it off and on again?" has become a bit of a joke when dealing with problems with electronic equipment, but more often than not it does work. Now, Canadian doctors and researchers have found that rebooting the immune system essentially cures early, aggressive MS. In clinical trials, the treatment was shown to suppress brain inflammation, prevent relapses, halt disease progression and even reverse some symptoms like vision loss and muscle weakness.

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Category: Medical





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