The Technology Flow

ARTICLE N°1: Tiny Device Allows You To Track Your Car Using Your Smartphone by Ronny With Over  5 Million  Units Sold Worldwide, This is The Most Affordable Solution to Find Your Lost Items! Have you ever  lost your car on a parking lot?  It happens. You park and go shopping. When you get back, you don't have a clue where your car is. Then you start roaming around clicking on the panic button on your car keys so the alarm goes off.  It can be frustrating,  especially on a hot, sunny day. No, you don't need to install an expensive GPS system to keep track of your car. That's way too expensive. You would need to pay a monthly subscription fee just to use it. Don't we have enough bills to pay already? But is there a way to track your vehicle without spending a fortune? Yes, now there is! A California-based startup company was able to make this a reality. They created a tiny device that works with your smartphone, and it coul

Article 1: 5 synthetic yeast chromosomes created By  Tia Ghose, Senior Writer  |  March 9, 2017 02:28pm ET The world is one step closer to a new synthetic organism. Scientists have created five synthetic yeast chromosomes and placed them inside yeast cells. The  chromosomes  are composed of the normal letters, or base pairs, that make up DNA, but the sequence is slightly different from those found naturally in yeast. The new chromosomes could help answer basic science questions, such as what is the purpose of portions of DNA that don't code for genes; they could also be useful for producing drugs like cancer antibodies on a massive scale, said study co-author Joel Bader, a bioinformatics professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.    The findings were published today (March 9) in the  journal Science  in seven separate papers.  [ Unraveling the Human Genome: 6 Molecular Milestones ] Building a genome In 2010, scientists succeeded in creating the  first

We tried Snapchat Spectacles: here’s what it's like. November 11, 2016. What would it take to get you to wear something on your face? Snapchat is making sunglasses now, if you haven't heard. $130 pairs of glasses with a camera inside, which takes snaps of the world without ever removing them from your face, have started descended like magic from strange pop-up vending machines . What are they, and why should you even care? CNET finally snagged a pair in Los Angeles, and here's what we know so far -- after our own Ashley Esqueda tried out a pair. (See video, above.) This story was originally published on September 27 and has been updated with hands-on impressions and video. They're not Google Glass, they're camera glasses. Smartglasses -- or any sort of aggressive head-wearable tech -- is still strange territory. Google Glass died as an awkward joke. Most smartglasses look like the sort of oddball things a normal person wouldn't wear for mo

Article n°1: Hexagon is a bike camera that turns your smartphone into a rearview mirror by  Chaim Gartenberg How do you put rearview mirrors on a bike? It’s a tougher question than you’d think. The traditional solution of mounting them on the handlebars works for seeing to the sides of your bike, but unlike cars, there’s no ceiling to mount a mirror on for seeing directly behind you. A startup called Smart Bike has an idea to solve this problem using a camera and a handlebar-mounted smartphone. Its first product, a camera called Hexagon, connects to a smartphone app and functions as a live safety camera. And while there have been other rear camera / taillight combos before, like the  Cycliq Fly6[v] , Hexagon has a few extra tricks up its sleeve, like live stream rides and tracking fitness activity and distance traveled. Hexagon also claims to be able to tell if you’re in an accident and can automatically notify your emergency contacts. There are a few interesting ha

Article n°1 : Can headphones train you to focus better ? By Angela Chen It’s all too easy for me to lose focus at work. One minute, I’m doing research for an article, the next I’m thinking about an episode of  Black Mirror . I’ve tried most of the usual tricks to improve my attention: I used browser  extensions  to block Twitter, I  chewed gum , and switched around my to-do lists. Tech companies feel my pain, and that of countless other Americans, and so entrepreneurs from Montreal have launched a new product with exciting promises: headphones that prevent you from being distracted and “rewire your brain” so you can concentrate. The  Kickstarter  launched this week and has already exceeded its $100,000 funding goal, so the headphones are expected to ship to backers by the end of the year. They’re called Mindset, and they cost $209 a pair during the Kickstarter and $349 later. I tried a prototype after meeting with co-founders Jacob Flood and David Doyon in Manhattan. Th