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This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts

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In 2012, with California in the midst of a severe drought, Schneider, then a mechanical engineering graduate student at Stanford University , once again tossed out a “cool idea.” He imagined a shower head that would sense when the person showering moved out from under the stream of water. So Schneider put his shower head idea on hold.

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CTA Foundation, IBM, Local Motors collaborate on accessible, self-driving vehicles

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Our goal is to explore new ways to improve access to transportation and personalize the experience to each person's unique abilities. Adapting light and videos for users with photosensitive epilepsy. IBM has been committed to developing accessibility technology solutions to help people with disabilities for over 100 years.

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Wall-Climbing Robot Shelves to Keep You Organized

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By helping people declutter and re-arrange personal items on walls and delivering them to users as needed or wanted while providing some ambient interactions, I'm hoping to use these robots to improve quality of life and enhance our home environments.

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Feature: How To Make Your EV Your Own

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They allow you to drive around in emissions-free style while helping the environment. Here are six fun adjustments to consider making to personalize your vehicle. Enhancing the inside is also a fun idea. Consider adding brand-new seat covers to give a more personal touch. Personalize Your License Plate.

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FCA unveils Chrysler Portal concept: next-gen family transportation for Millenials; electric, semi-autonomous, connected, flexible

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FCA is a leader in family transportation and it was essential that we fully explored the idea of what a vehicle could look like for this emerging generation. Based on internal research, they will want a vehicle that is reflective of their personality, offers value and flexibility, integrates advanced technology and is socially responsible.

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50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World

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The type of computing they envisioned was thoroughly interactive and personal, comprehensively networked, and completely graphical—with high-resolution screens and high-quality print output. By the late 1960s, Xerox executives had begun to see information technology make an impact in the office environment.

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Using Manga to Spark Interest in STEM

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The idea for Sher-DeCusatis’s second comic, she says, came from a personal experience she had while volunteering for IEEE. Riko-chan and the Perfect Circuit , written by IEEE Member Lais Lara Baptista, follows the character as she and a friend try to repair the old lights in her grandmother’s house.