Important Innovations Collection

Heatbox, the Self-Heating Lunchbox from the Netherlands Source:  Heatbox Mobile Hot Meals This is another example of great innovation from the Netherlands. Heatbox warms food with steam. The steam is created by the lunchbox's heating element working with a small amount of water.  It was created by the Netherlands start-up Heatbox. The device is portable and small enough to fit in a backpack.  It's rechargeable and can work multiple times a day. The smart lunchbox heats your food in minutes.  It enables the user to have a hot meal wherever they are. Heatbox and Your Phone Heatbox can be controlled manually or by a smartphone app.  It can even charge your cellphone.  The device has a modern, sleek design.  It appears to have great potential for students and anyone on the go.  It's in the Kickstarter phase with product deliveries set for July 2020.  It's a breakthrough gadget that provides mobile hot meals.  For a free Kindle bo...

New Emergency Device Hand Cranked to Generate Power for Key Gadgets Light Saber: Innovative Outdoor Survival Tool The Light Saber outdoor survival technology tool was invented by the Innovation Factory, a US based company that's been making tough tools since 2001.  Their Light Saber delivers limitless power supply to essential gadgets like cell phones by hand cranking it. It's limited only by your muscle power.  It's a portable device that can deliver enough power to charge a cell phone with three minutes worth of hand cranking.  It's designed to help adventurers survive in the outdoors and wilderness areas.  It has an onboard battery that you can charge for the road. Lots of Emergency Tech Included This emergency device has a lot of new tech loaded in. It has a USB generator, emergency strobe lights and sirens, a UV water purifier and a plasma fire starter.  The company calls it an inexhaustible power supply for wilderness surviv...

Portable, in the Field Gadget, for Healthy Plants & Spot Disease Source:  North Caroline State University new tech for plant health First of its Kind Device to Detect Plant Disease in Minutes A new, smartphone powered device detects disease in plants.  For the first time, plant disease can be detected by a portable device, used by a farmer in the field and the analysis is done on the spot within minutes.  Up until now, plant analysis had to be done in a lab and that could take days or weeks.  This smartphone powered device reads gas concentrations in a plant in the farm field real-time that reveal the presence of disease in plants. Portable, on the Farm Device This significant innovation was developed by a team at North Carolina State University.  The device is designed to attach to a farmer's smart phone for quick crop analysis.  This real-time turnaround is  important to detect plant disease in order to limit the spread of it and the ...

Gadget Innovation You Can Carry in an Envelope Source:  Wolf and Grizzly Wolf and Gizzly Invention The new gadget, a portable fire pit called Fire Safe, sounds like the perfect grill for the beach or to take out of your backpack when on a hike and want to cook a burger.  It's a super slim, portable fire pit just unveiled by Wolf and Grizzly Founder & CEO George Rizkalla.  He says the company is dedicated to designing tools to enable adventure from the backyard to the backcountry. Stainless Steel The device is composed of stainless steel.  It weighs 2.2 pounds and can be folded down to the size of a small package that's an inch thick.  It can be carried in an envelope.  The device extends to hold fuel like charcoal for cooking and sits on a walled, 4 legged base.  The company is currently in the kickstarter stage but expects to ship the product to buyers in the fall.  For a free Kindle borrow of my book "List of Top New Gadgets", go...

Global Race to Create the First - New Breakthrough Source:  Drawing from University of Sussex of a Laser Pulse in a Chip UK Physicists Now Steps Closer British physicists have just made a breakthrough in the development of a portable atomic clock.  Scientists from around the world have been in a race to create the first portable atomic clock.  The team at the University of Sussex has moved ahead of the competition by using cutting edge laser technology. Efficiency Improvement Their approach has greatly improved the efficiency of  the part of the clock called the lancet that does the counting.  The efficiency has been improved by 80%. Replacing Satellite Mapping like GPS According to lead researcher Dr. Allessia Pasquazi, this moves the scientific community closer to portable atomic clocks replacing satellite mapping like GPS.  The clocks work on extremely accurate geo-mapping that  enables access to your location and route without satell...