wonderful inventions that I still don't quite get...

Hello! Here’s some amazingly wicked inspiration for a mid-week pick-me-up. Screw coffee (no, I didn’t really mean that) and know that the world is limitless.

[Li-Fi]
It’s the better version of wi-fi. How does it work? You seriously expect me to explain it you? If I knew….I’d probably be a wicked scientist hacking away at something in my underground garage, and not writing a silly blog whilst watching How I Met Your Mother….Well, here’s what I know. Some dude managed to transmit data via lightbulbs and apparently it’s secure because light doesn’t go through walls. So it’s safer than current wi-fi and it’s more abundant (because we’re running out of radio frequencies used for wi-fi? I just read that sentence somewhere).

[Virtual textures]
WOW like WTF? Trust those crazy Finnish dudes to invent something like this. So apparently, using electrical fields and vibrations, we can feel textures on a touchscreen!! Gone are the baby books with cotton, wool and velvet stuck on the pages. Hello? You can actually feel wetness, roughness and a whole range of textures on your phones soon!! That’s absolutely mind-blowing.

[The Light Field Camera]
This crazy little camera is able to capture the entire light field. That is, each ray of light is captured. So nothing is ever out of focus. It’s even crazier because there’s no shutter delay. AND, as if that weren’t enough, no, those crazy guys behind this little gadget has done some magic that allows re-focus after the picture is taken. So you can bring whatever object you wish into and out of focus, however you wish. Are you as excited as I am?

[The Next-Gen Pen]
Now this is a cool name already. Anything labeled next gen is, obviously new, right? Well this is a pen, but ordinary it is not. There’s a little sensor that you can clip onto a piece of paper or sketchbook. What it does is that it remembers your drawings line by line and when you connect it to the usb, it is transmitted into a digital file. The great thing is that it actually retains the classic pen-to-paper quality that sometimes is lost in computer generated images. Hooray for the comeback of original Disney cartoons! Pen and paper lives on!!

[One more just for fun]
Japan has managed to create artificial meat made from processed sewage. Yay for vegetarians, another source of protein for you guys, suckers. Joking aside, it’s fascinating as to how waste can be used to provide nutrition. Trust Japan on that!

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