Tag Archives : air

One of the most secured and air traffic intensive international airports in the world, Heathrow International Airport in London is now all set to even more stringent and advanced security system in the form of facial recognition scanners. The announcement was made by the airport operator, BAA and as per the new security measures, passengers entering [...]

If you ever saw an umbrella without its typical dome on the top, you would immediately exclaim “What the heck?!” Your mind would probably put on the alert mode considering a prank or look up to it as a piece of thrash. Air Umbrella is a modest piece of rod-like structure that could sweep you off your feet with its functionality and design. The [...]

No matter how clean you keep your home or office, small airborne particles do contaminate the air. If this continues and becomes worse, then your health can be severely affected. The dust particles are capable of causing asthma, bronchitis and even lung cancer. In order to help you detect the presence of airborne particles in your home or office, researches [...]

Developing and designing artifical trees is quite high on the green agenda of most eco-friendly architects and researchers; for one cannot deny that actual trees are still being felled down to make space for the concrete jungle. These synethetic replacements of the green faithful beings shall perform the same functions like a natural tree and also generate [...]

There have been many concepts and projects in the past that worked on generating water from air, but most of them confined to catering to the domestic needs. For the first time ever, researchers at Fraunhofer Institute led by Siegfried Egner, head of the department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology (IGB) in Stuttgart, [...]