Hold the smartphone, Oregon blueberries have gone wireless. Oregon Berry Packing, a family-owned business based in Hillsboro, is one of many growers using new wireless sensor technology to monitor crop conditions in real time. Technological advances in crop management from … Continued
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Neri Oxman: Architecture imitating life
Bones, computers and art: Neri Oxman, MIT researcher, artist and medical scholar, has created yet another prolific project of genius in the form of… a chaise lounge? Yep. Looking a little bit like a bio-mechanoid piece from H.R. Giger – … Continued
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This could be a label in the future of battery-powered gadgets. Okay, maybe not. Even so, the geniuses at M.I.T. have developed a genetically-engineered virus which infests a harmless bacteria to create a smaller, longer-lasting battery which …could hold the … Continued