The ZipCharge GoHub module is designed to host five or 10 Go EV powerbanks, and will fit in a standard parking space at the shopping mall, community space or business park.Late last year, UK startup ZipCharge announced the development of a suitcase-sized powerbank on wheels for charging electric vehicles. Now the company has revealed its next idea, a modular charging and storage hub called the...

The Russia-Ukraine war and ongoing Covid-19 lockdowns in China continue to stymie global air traffic recovery.In May 2020, we began making regular forecasts of how soon aviation demand would recover from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, based on several potential scenarios and the latest information.Here are the latest developments as of April 2022.Several headwinds pushed our baseline rec...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Pennsylvania have developed soft robots that are capable of navigating complex environments, such as mazes, without input from humans or computer software.“These soft robots demonstrate a concept called ‘physical intelligence,’ meaning that structural design and smart materials are what allow the soft robot to navigate va...

Cleantech company Perovskia Solar combines inkjet printing with customised design to build solar cells that fit almost any product. Designed for seamless integration into existing devices, the Perovskia solar cells work exceptionally well even in low lighting conditions.Perovskia is a calcium titanite mineral that, when applied in a thin film as a semiconductor, is an incredibly efficient metho...

Ever dreamed of throwing a party in the depths of sea without getting wet? Hold your breath, a new 1,615-sqft submarine has emerged to take you closer to your wish. Aptly named the “Under Water Entertainment Platform,” or UWEP in short, this party submarine can accommodate up to 120 guests in a fully air-conditioned, decked out space while cruising at a depth of 200 meters (650 feet) under th...

Canon has been awarded a patent for new artificial intelligence (AI) driven technology that will automatically zoom in to better frame a photo before capture.Canon’s new AI Zoom technology seeks to identify subjects within a photo’s frame and then either optically or digitally zoom into the picture without the photographer having to adjust it themselves.Moreover, the camera would have various...

Although widespread adoption of the metaverse may take some time, leading brands are already rewriting the rules of marketing.Talk of the metaverse has been ubiquitous over the past several months.1 In 2021, internet searches for the term increased by 7,200 percent. In December, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared his ambition to “help bring the metaverse to lif...

The AI world is still figuring out how to deal with the amazing show of prowess that is DALL-E 2’s ability to draw/paint/imagine just about anything… but OpenAI isn’t the only one working on something like that. Google Research has rushed to publicize a similar model it’s been working on — which it claims is even better.Imagen (get it?) is a text-to-image diffusion-based generator built on...

How the Avalanche and its new sponsor assembled a tech-enabled burrito bowl ad.Chipotle quite literally broke the ice on a new kind of ad last week, using mixed reality technology to spring an unexpected surprise on viewers of a Stanley Cup playoff game between the Colorado Avalanche and St. Louis Blues. The stunt, which made it appear a gigantic hand broke through the ice to grab a burrito bow...