Important Innovations Collection

D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF   By Journalists Edward  Kane & Marya nne Kane  NEW SCIENCE: ELEPHANTS HAVE FEELINGS TOO                                                                                          Source:  Stock They say, "an elephant never forgets".  According to new scientific research they also have feelings and a wide range of emotions.  Here are some eye-opening facts: In fresh research, scientists from Emory University and Think Elephants International have found elephants are capable of love, anger, empathy and stress The scientists found they have incredible memories, deep psyches and are closer to humans psychologically than ever thought  They celebrate births, mourn deaths...

D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF   By Journalists Edward  Kane & Marya nne Kane NEW SCIENCE:  BE CAREFUL SNACKING IN PUBLIC - YOUR CHOICE COULD SPEAK VOLUMES                                                       Source:  Stock University of Otago researchers say it's likely that personality traits extend to food.  Several studies involving hundreds of people have been done.  Here are some examples: Impulsive people crave salt like pretzels and potato chips Spice and meat lovers are fun people who seek thrills Sweet lovers are probably insecure Fruit snack lovers tend to be imaginative, creative and insightful Dark chocolate, cranberry and coffee bean snack lovers could be psychopaths If your snack preferences are #1 through #4, it's okay to snack outside in public; but if your preference is #5, you may w...

D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF   By Journalists Edward  Kane & Marya nne Kane   DRINK WHISKEY - HELP SAVE THE PLANET                  Source:  Stock Whiskey, Historic Drinkers & Distillery Scottish scientists have developed materials that can use distillery wastewater to produce green hydrogen.  Here's what we know: Green hydrogen is normally created by using fresh water  That consumes more than 20 billion quarts per year The team from Heriot-Watts University is using distillery water instead of fresh water, saving over a billion quarts of fresh water Next steps: scaling up production and analyzing distillery wastewater to find additional valuable materials to salvage from it along with hydrogen A great use of distillery wastewater to create something very useful to help reduce the amount of CO2 spewed into the atmosphere - green hydrogen, an important emerging power source with zero emissions fo...

D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward  Kane & Marya nne Kane NEW AI TOOL FOR PERFECT VIDEO CALL                                                                 Source:  Microsoft & AI Stock Microsoft has developed a new AI tool that decorates the background of your video call and turns it from a messy, cluttered setting to a clean professional looking backdrop.  Here are some facts: Called "Decorate Your Background" Uses AI to clean up the background behind you during your videocall It can clean up a messy, unprofessional looking background and make it look neat and professional AI tool can decorate the space behind you with plants, trees and more including festive items like Christmas trees Decorate Your Backgroun...

  D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane AI CREATING NEW ROBOTS - "INSTANT EVOLUTION"                                                                                   Source:  Northwestern University Northwestern University, MIT and University of Vermont researchers have created a breakthrough AI system capable of creating robots from scratch and in record time.  Here's what we know: This AI system is capable of generating totally new robots, not replicating existing ones, in a few seconds The researchers asked their AI system to create a robot that can walk on land and it provided a blueprint in a few seconds This system is capable of op...

    D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane AI DESIGNING & CREATING FOOD: EMERGING TREND                                                                           Source:  Stock & Kraft A megatrend is developing with AI creating and designing new foods and drinks to bring new flavors, more varieties and fresh innovations to the market.  Here's what we know: The AI food and drink sections of your supermarket is starting to stun with new products like digitally produced beef stew, Kraft AI cheese, new AI flavors of Coke, Beck Beer, wines and new varieties of vegan products AI is creating these products from the molecular level The trend is happening glo...

   D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward Kane & Marya nne Kane VOLTAERO E-HYBRID PLANE FLIES ON WINE & MAKES AVIATION HISTORY Source:  VOLT AERO VoltAero has developed an electric-hybrid plane that flies on biofuel produced from wine waste.  Their aircraft Cassio S just made aviation history.  Here's what we know: France-based VoltAero just achieved the world's 1st flight of an electric-hybrid plane powered by 100% sustainable fuel from vineyard wine waste The Cassio S testbed plane has a proprietary electric hybrid powertrain The fuel is 100% sustainable and produced by France's TotalEnergies The historic flight used the hybrid powertrain's electric mode and its internal combustion engine was fueled by bioethanol produced from wine The company says it flew with an 80% CO2 reduction The milestone flight is a major advancement for the use of SAF or sustainable aviation fuel/biofuels in genera...

   D A ILY INNOVATION BRIEF                By Journalists Edward Kane & Maryanne Kane NEW BMW i8M & NEW DRIVING POSSIBILITIES                                                                                          Source:  BMW BMW is developing a Next-Generation version of its i8 series, which is creating a lot of excitement in the automotive community Here's what we know: Named i8M Hybrid sports car Estimated price $160,000 to $180,000 Cutting edge styling and design that's aerodynamic & futuristic Two electric motors, one at the front and back plus  a 4-cylinder turbocharged engine 591 hp Range not announced by BMW but expected to be significant Intrig...