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From Smart Homes to Smarter Lives: How Consumer Tech is Redefining Daily Convenience in 2025

Gone are the days when smart devices were a luxury for the tech-obsessed. Today’s consumer technology is accessible, intuitive, and deeply embedded in everyday routines. Think smart fridges that reorder your groceries, mirrors that track your skin health, or AI-powered vacuums that learn your floor plan better than you do.

This wave of innovation is being driven by demand for more than just convenience — people want technology that adds real value to their lives. That’s exactly why the Consumer Technology Association Awards have become a global spotlight for the most game-changing products and innovations every year.

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Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan)

01/11/2024

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"Costing $1.75, the Foldscope has a 140x zoom, which is a small enough field to see a malaria parasite inside a cell." The implications of this sentence alone are huge.

This news is a bit older, but it's still super relevant for the ways that it will massively expand science and research capabilities around the world - especially for citizen science and in developing countries.

And this guy has also gone on to design another revolutionary kind of microscope that could change how we detect disease:

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"Rapid diagnostic tests can quickly check whether someone has malaria, but they don’t count the number of parasites. That figure is important: It reveals the severity of an infection and informs treatment choices. To count parasites, you need trained technicians and good microscopes. “There’s incredible talent, but it’s limited by their tools,” Prakash says. “I would meet health-care workers who would save their salary for a year to buy a fancier microscope.”

So Prakash and his colleague Hongquan Li built a fancier microscope—a high-speed, malaria-detecting device that they’ve called Octopi. It can automatically scan entire blood-smeared slides for malaria parasites, using a neural network trained on more than 20,000 existing images. Octopi works off a phone charger. It analyzes slides at speeds that are 120 times faster than traditional microscopy. Weighing fewer than seven pounds, it’s portable. And at a do-it-yourself cost of $250 to $500, it’s cheaper than many basic microscopes or other automated slide-analyzing devices.

Prakash has spent his career building extremely cheap medical devices that can be used in some of the poorest parts of the world. Besides the Foldscope, he developed a $10 skin patch that can detect parasitic worms. And he developed a 20-cent, hand-powered centrifuge that can spin medical samples at up to 125,000 revolutions per minute, achieving what costly, bulky, and expensive machines can do using little more than paper, string, and tape."

-via The Atlantic, August 22, 2019

“A young scientist who worked in the jungles of Thailand has been awarded a national prize for his invention of a $2 paper microscope that can be taken on field expeditions.

If a scientist wants to study something at the microscopic level, they need a microscope, which if they are deep in the Amazon Rainforest presents a serious problem.

Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash saw in his team’s $50,000 microscope a serious contradiction. As well as being bulky and ridiculously challenging to transport to remote locations, it needed training from skilled technicians to know how to use it. It also had to stay well out of the weather and other environmental impacts.

So he invented a portable one. Costing $1.75, the Foldscope has a 140x zoom, which is a small enough field to see a malaria parasite inside a cell…

“I want to bring science into everyone’s hands, make it more personal,” Prakash told CNN. “We have decoupled everyday life from the process of science.”

The ultimate in schoolhouse science, Prakash’s invention has sold 1.6 million units, mostly to schools in America, but serious scientists are also using it—like Dr. Kirti Nitnaware in India who works on the isolation and characterization of bioactive metabolites in cyanobacteria.

She used the Foldscope last year to isolate a new species of cyanobacteria. For this and other reasons, Prakash received the 2022 Golden Goose Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), parent company of the scientific journal, Science.

“The Golden Goose Award reminds us that potential discoveries could be hidden in every corner and illustrates the benefits of investing in basic research to propel innovation,” said Sudip S. Parikh, chief executive officer at AAAS.” -via Good News Network, 9/20/22

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Three with MIT ties win 2022 Churchill Scholarships

🧬 ..::Science & Tech::.. 🧬 Seniors David Darrow and Tara Venkatadri and HST student James Diao will pursue master’s programs at Cambridge University

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On November 15, 2012, Sarah was one of the speakers at the 2nd Annual S.E.T. Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel in California. The awards honored outstanding achievements in Science, Engineering and Technology. Other speakers included Bill Nye the Science Guy, Michael Bay, Shia LaBeouf, and astronaut James Kelly. #sarahbrightman #setawards

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today that 11 distinct scientific and technical investigations have been launched for 2024 in the lead-up to the Scientific and Technical Awards on Tuesday, February 18, 2025

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NASA Awards Promote Science Technology Engineering Math Nationwide

NASA is awarding approximately $3.7 million to 17 museums, science centers, and other informal education institutions as part of an initiative to ignite STEM excitement. The money will go toward projects that inspire students and their learning support systems to take an active role in the wonder of science, technology, engineering, and math.   “We’re […] from NASA https://ift.tt/DnAZbqd

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The World’s Best Awards Clean Water Technology Company of 2024

Clean water can be as precious as a unicorn sighting. Yet there are those companies that are like knights in shining armor, wielding innovation and dedication to tackle the global water crisis. From Calgon Carbon’s purifying prowess to Danaher’s water quality wizardry, Kemira’s sustainable solutions, Remote Waters’ remote revolution, and Takadu Ltd.’s smart water mastery, these companies are the…

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What Science & Technology Awards Really Mean in the Grand Scheme of Time

In a world driven by innovation, science and technology awards are more than ceremonial honors—they are milestones in human progress. This insightful blog from Fluxx Events explores how award winning technology not only shapes industries but redefines the future. These recognitions mark breakthroughs that stand the test of time, celebrating thinkers, creators, and innovators who push boundaries.

Dive into how these awards spotlight the trailblazers behind today’s most transformative advancements and why acknowledging their contributions is essential for progress.

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Of course the mainstream media chose to highlight Katy Perry in particular as being on board the Blue Origin space trip, and now, as a result, two very important astronauts on that flight are being erased and ignored, or framed as superficial rich people with nothing better to do.

Amanda Nguyen:

A civil rights activist and founder of the nonprofit Rise, known for her work on sexual assault survivors’ rights. In 2013, during her senior year at college while studying astrophysics and working with NASA, she was raped at a frat party. She paused her mission to go to space in order to change legislation for sexual assault survivors. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded TIME’s Woman of the Year for her advocacy and work in this area. Amanda is now the 1st Vietnamese woman to fly to space.

Aisha Bowe:

A former NASA rocket scientist, Aisha Bowe graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in aerospace engineering and a master's in space systems engineering. Bowe is CEO of STEMBoard, an engineering company that works with governments and other organizations.

She also founded LINGO, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education technology company. Bowe is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Her work has been recognized with a NASA Engineering Honor Award, a STEM for Her Woman of the Year and a Black Enterprises Luminary Award.

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Pope Leo 'concerned' about AI's impact on children

(The Hill) — Pope Leo XIV sounded the alarm this week over artificial intelligence (AI)’s potential impact on young people’s intellectual and neurological development, building upon one of the main focuses of his papacy. The first American pope delivered the message to an annual conference on AI and ethics, part of which took place in the Vatican this week. “All of us, I am sure, are concerned…

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MIT-Kalaniyot launches programs for visiting Israeli scholars

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MIT-Kalaniyot launches programs for visiting Israeli scholars

Over the past 14 months, as the impact of the ongoing Israel-Gaza war has rippled across the globe, a faculty-led initiative has emerged to support MIT students and staff by creating a community that transcends ethnicity, religion, and political views. Named for a flower that blooms along the Israel-Gaza border, MIT-Kalaniyot began hosting weekly community lunches that typically now draw about 100 participants. These gatherings have gained the interest of other universities seeking to help students not only cope with but thrive through troubled times, with some moving to replicate MIT’s model on their own campuses.

Now, scholars at Israel’s nine state-recognized universities will be able to compete for MIT-Kalaniyot fellowships designed to allow Israel’s top researchers to come to MIT for collaboration and training, advancing research while contributing to a better understanding of their country.

The MIT-Kalaniyot Postdoctoral Fellows Program will support scholars who have recently graduated from Israeli PhD programs to continue their postdoctoral training at MIT. Meanwhile, the new MIT-Kalaniyot Sabbatical Scholars Program will provide faculty and researchers holding sabbatical-eligible appointments at Israeli research institutions with fellowships for two academic terms at MIT.

Announcement of the fellowships through the association of Israeli university presidents spawned an enthusiastic response. 

“We’ve received many emails, from questions about the program to messages of gratitude. People have told us that, during a time of so much negativity, seeing such a top-tier academic program emerge feels like a breath of fresh air,” says Or Hen, the Class of 1956 Associate Professor of Physics and associate director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, who co-founded MIT-Kalaniyot with Ernest Fraenkel, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology.

Hen adds that the response from potential program donors has been positive, as well.

“People have been genuinely excited to learn about forward-thinking efforts and how they can simultaneously support both MIT and Israeli science,” he says. “We feel truly privileged to be part of this meaningful work.”

MIT-Kalaniyot is “a faculty-led initiative that emerged organically as we came to terms with some of the challenges that MIT was facing trying to keep focusing on its mission during a very difficult period for the U.S., and obviously for Israelis and Palestinians,” Fraenkel says.

As the MIT-Kalaniyot Program gained momentum, he adds, “we started talking about positive things faculty can do to help MIT fulfill its mission and then help the world, and we recognized many of the challenges could actually be helped by bringing more brilliant scholars from Israel to MIT to do great research and to humanize the face of Israelis so that people who interact with them can see them, not as some foreign entity, but as the talented person working down the hallway.”

“MIT has a long tradition of connecting scholarly communities around the world,” says MIT President Sally Kornbluth. “Programs like this demonstrate the value of bringing people and cultures together, in pursuit of new ideas and understanding.”    

Open to applicants in the humanities, architecture, management, engineering, and science, both fellowship programs aim to embrace Israel’s diverse demographics by encouraging applications from all communities and minority groups throughout Israel.

Fraenkel notes that because Israeli universities reflect the diversity of the country, he expects scholars who identify as Israeli Arabs, Palestinian citizens of Israel, and others could be among the top candidates applying and ultimately selected for MIT-Kalaniyot fellowships. 

MIT is also expanding its Global MIT At-Risk Fellows Program (GMAF), which began last year with recruitment of scholars from Ukraine, to bring Palestinian scholars to campus next fall. Fraenkel and Hen noted their close relationship with GMAF-Palestine director Kamal Youcef-Toumi, a professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering.  

“While the programs are independent of each other, we value collaboration at MIT and are hoping to find positive ways that we can interact with each other,” Fraenkel says.

Also growing up alongside MIT-Kalaniyot’s fellowship programs will be new Kalaniyot chapters at universities such as the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College, where programs have already begun, and others where activity is starting up. MIT’s inspiration for these efforts, Hen and Fraenkel say, is a key aspect of the Kalaniyot story.

“We formed a new model of faculty-led communities,” Hen says. “As faculty, our roles typically center on teaching, mentoring, and research. After October 7 happened, we saw what was happening around campus and across the nation and realized that our roles had to expand. We had to go beyond the classroom and the lab to build deeper connections within the community that transcends traditional academic structures. This faculty-led approach has become the essence of MIT-Kalaniyot, and is now inspiring similar efforts across the nation.”

Once the programs are at scale, MIT plans to bring four MIT-Kalaniyot Postdoctoral Fellows to campus annually (for three years each), as well as four MIT-Kalaniyot Sabbatical Scholars, for a total of 16 visiting Israeli scholars at any one time.

“We also hope that when they go back, they will be able to maintain their research ties with MIT, so we plan to give seed grants to encourage collaboration after someone leaves,” Fraenkel says. “I know for a lot of our postdocs, their time at MIT is really critical for making networks, regardless of where they come from or where they go. Obviously, it’s harder when you’re across the ocean in a very challenging region, and so I think for both programs it would be great to be able to maintain those intellectual ties and collaborate beyond the term of their fellowships.”

A common thread between the new Kalaniyot programs and GMAF-Palestine, Hen says, is to rise beyond differences that have been voiced post-Oct. 7 and refocus on the Institute’s core research mission.

“We’re bringing in the best scholars from the region — Jews, Israelis, Arabs, Palestinians — and normalizing interactions with them and among them through collaborative research,” Hen says. “Our mission is clear: to focus on academic excellence by bringing outstanding talent to MIT and reinforcing that we are here to advance research in service of humanity.”

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Facinho um dos melhores animes que assisti. Com ótimos e peculiares personagens, equilibrado em ação, comédia e drama, enredo e narrativa cativantes e uma animação espetacular. Vale cada minuto.

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Wherever Scorpio is placed in your chart shows where you can become corrupt or destructive if you don’t get help for the internal hell that burns inside you 🔥 🖤

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﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌♏️Exploring where Scorpio falls in your natal chart is a powerful step toward greater self-awareness and healing. Scorpio is the sign most associated with depth, transformation, and the hidden layers of the psyche. Wherever it resides in your chart, it shows where you are drawn to intensity—where you crave deep connection, power, or renewal—but also where you might struggle with fear, control, obsession or destructive patterns.

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First we recap on the themes of each house:

🏡Ascendant / 1st House

First impressions, physical body, self-image, appearance, how you approach the world, style, personality, leadership, new initiatives, fresh starts, and beginnings.

🏡2nd House

Values, material comforts and pleasures, art, aesthetics, deep experiences, finances, possessions, contracts, taste, scent, sound, sight, and touch.

🏡 3rd House

Communication, thoughts, siblings, research, learning, childhood, small talk, coworkers, flirting, banter, early education, neighbors, vehicles, libraries, the neighborhood, schools, local trips, appliances, daily interactions, and devices.

🏡 IC / 4th House

Home, emotions, stability, comforts, ancestors, self-care, the past, roots, hometown, history, family, genetics, privacy, security, caretakers, parents (especially the mother), children, your own nurturing abilities, and TLC.

🏡 5th House

Self-expression, dating, sex, drama, creativity, attention, children, fertility, excitement, entertainment, the inner child, passions, hobbies, color, games, imagination, romance, fun, pleasure, and play.

🏡 6th House

Schedules, organization, habits, routines, duties, fitness, diet, health, exercise, analytical thinking, digestion, stress, plans, design, pets, chores, work, running errands, responsibilities, skills, medication, babysitting, sickness, surgery, volunteering, servitude, and being of service to others.

🏡 Descendant / 7th House

Partnerships, relationships, marriage, effort, peaceful negotiation, active listening, teamwork, commitment, spouse, business deals, open enemies, and contracts.

🏡 8th House

Birth, death, sex, transformation, mysteries, tarot, surgery, spirit boards, other people’s property and money, drugs, alcohol, real estate, inheritances, self-harm, crime, investments, secrets, taxes, abuse, soulmates, the occult, obsession, intimacy, revenge, trauma, pain, and profound bonding.

🏡 9th House

Travel, higher education, spirituality, publishing, religion, philosophy, foreigners, beliefs, entrepreneurship, enlightenment, faith, optimism, teaching, knowledge, languages, culture, wisdom, university, teachers, and cross-cultural connections.

🏡 MC / 10th House

Structures, corporations, tradition, social status, public image, legacy, fame, honors, professionalism, hard work, ambition, achievements, awards, career path, authority, boundaries, goals, leadership style, aspirations, rules, discipline, fathers, and fatherhood.

🏡 11th House

Teams, friendships, groups, society, technology, video, media, networking, social justice, rebellion, gifts, humanitarian causes, originality, eccentricity, sudden events, surprises, activism, invention, astronomy, science fiction, innovation, older siblings, community, computers, electricity, the internet, and the future.

🏡 12th House

The subconscious, dreams, spirituality, mental health, visions, karma, past lives, poetry, art, asylums, jail, hospitals, healing, trauma, isolation, hypnosis, sleep, film, dance, intuition, addiction, illusion, confusion, the psyche, ghosts, spirits, secrets, affairs, insomnia, suffering, illness, imprisonment, spiritual transcendence, enemies, endings, and crisis.

Now we’ve recapped,

Here is a list of some negative traits that have the potential to manifest depending on which house Scorpio resides in your chart:

🦂 1st House

Jealousy, violent emotions, intimidation, and a lack of trust in others.

🦂 2nd House

Obsessive attachment to possessions, greed, financial manipulation, using money or resources for control.

🦂 3rd House

Suspicion toward siblings or neighbors, manipulative communication, compulsive thinking, secretive learning, gossip.

🦂 4th House

Emotional blackmail within the family, resentment toward parents, clinging to past wounds, controlling behavior in the home.

🦂 5th House

Jealousy in romance, possessiveness over children or lovers, attention-seeking drama, sexual obsession.

🦂 6th House

Workplace power struggles, compulsive routines, self-destructive health habits, resentment about being of service.

🦂 7th House

Manipulative relationships, obsession with partners, fear of betrayal, jealousy, power plays in marriage or business partnerships.

🦂 8th House

Addiction, financial entanglements, destructive sexual compulsions, abuse, revenge, inability to let go.

🦂 9th House

Fanaticism in beliefs, intolerance, imposing views on others, secretive travels, hidden agendas in teaching or publishing.

🦂 10th House

Obsessive ambition, ruthless pursuit of status, controlling public image, power struggles with authority figures.

🦂 11th House

Manipulation in friendships, jealousy over others’ success, infiltration of groups for personal gain, secret rivalries.

🦂 12th House

Self-sabotage, hidden enemies, secret addictions, paranoia, escapism, unconscious patterns of destruction.

﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌﹌When you research your Scorpio house placement, you’re equipping yourself to do meaningful shadow work. Instead of letting these energies operate unconsciously, you bring them into the light, where they can be understood, healed and transformed. This is how Scorpio moves from corruption and pain to profound healing and rebirth. ♏️

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Writing Notes: Fictional Culture

Fictional culture - an essential piece of worldbuilding in certain genres of fiction—particularly in science fiction and fantasy.

Storytellers develop fictional cultures in a variety of mediums, including film, television, short stories, novels, and video games.

A fictional culture is defined by the customs, languages, values, and symbols of an imaginary world.

How to Create a Fictional Culture

Although there are nearly endless possibilities, consider some of these general writing tips for creating a fictional culture.

Pull inspiration from the real world. Pay attention to the cultural behaviors within your society. Broaden your own cultural perspective by researching the ideas and values of different cultures throughout history. Use real-life cultural examples to inform your fictional world, but be wary of repurposing existing cultures or perpetuating stereotypes.

Build off your main character. Develop the setting of your story based on how it serves the character development of your protagonist. Build a culture that highlights or contradicts your main character’s goals, needs, and fears.

Develop a belief system. Consider the core values, social norms, and taboos of your fictional culture. A central belief system can guide how you create rituals, symbols, and artifacts within your story.

Create a social structure. Develop how the family structures and social hierarchies work within your fictional culture. Decide where your main character falls within the social structure. Monetary systems can change your social structure depending on whether you use a bartering economy or something more complex.

Construct a technological system. Determine how advanced the technology is in your fictional culture. The technology of your story will impact the entertainment, communication, and modes of transportation within your fictional world.

Write a brief history. Expand your culture by writing a brief mythology of your fictional society. Avoid overwriting, and keep your history contained to important information that can impact your story.

Examples of Fictional Cultures

To learn more about how fictional cultures work in fiction, explore the following examples.

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954): Tolkien created a wide variety of fictional cultures to inhabit Middle-earth. Each culture has its own language, value system, and history.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1932): In his dystopian novel, Aldous Huxley developed a complex and technologically advanced culture with distinct social classes.

Dune by Frank Herbert (1965): Dune is an influential sci-fi novel with several detailed fictional cultures. One of them is the Fremen culture, which revolves around ancient superstitions and a rare commodity known as the Spice Melange.

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin (2015): In this award-winning novel, Jemisin created a complex social structure with many "use-castes” that all have a place on an earthquake-ridden planet with one supercontinent.

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