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Published Tuesday July 17 2018 12:29 am.
MIT Design Lab and Puma have teamed up to develop shoes that adapt to your feet. Using bacteria, the insoles sense fatigue levels based on sweat. The shoe fabric ventilates based on heat patterns in the foot. According to MIT Design Lab, the design team aims to make athletic gear highly adaptable, personalized, and future-proof. […]
Posted in Science
Published Tuesday April 17 2018 9:36 pm.
On Friday, April 20th at 7:00 p.m. the Arlington Heights Arts Commission will dedicate a new mural of “Meyer’s Pond” on the second floor of Village Hall, 33 South Arlington Heights Road. The mural represents an important piece of Arlington Heights’ history. “Meyer’s Pond” was located roughly where Village Hall, the new police station and […]
Posted in Cool. Art. Talent.
Published Wednesday April 11 2018 11:59 pm.
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Published Tuesday March 27 2018 4:02 pm.
Tech giant Apple with CEO Tim Cook the keynote speaker made a big announcement in Chicago at Lane Tech High School Tuesday, and ABC 7 Chicago interviewed South Middle School Jennifer Smith for her reaction. On a drizzly March day in Chicago, Apple employees dressed in green and yellow — Lane Tech’s school colors — […]
Posted in Digital-Lifestyle, Education
Published Saturday March 10 2018 7:39 pm.
Dog or cat owners can order a biopsy kit and have a vet collect a tissue sample, which is preserved and applied to a surrogate mother at a later date. Genetic preservation, the act of collecting a tissue sample and preserving it for a future date costs $1,600. Cloning — the act of replacing the […]
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Published Thursday March 08 2018 4:20 pm.
WISN 12 New featuring Yerkes Observatory with the largest refracting telescope in the world in 2013. The Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, owned by the University of Chicago is set for closure. University of Chicago is scheduled to cease operations at the 100 year-old observatory on October 1, 2018. Currently, there is no information […]
Posted in Science
Published Wednesday February 07 2018 1:40 pm.
SpaceX is celebrating its historic launch of the world’s most powerful rocket. Falcon Heavy launched into space carrying a cherry red convertible. CBS News Manuel Bojorquez reports. Falcon Heavy is a two-stage launch vehicle equal to eighteen Boeing 747s at takeoff. The launch vehicle uses three cores with nine engines for a total of 27 […]
Published Monday February 05 2018 4:38 pm.
Hundreds of millions of jobs affected. Trillions of dollars of wealth created. These are the potential impacts of a coming wave of automation. In this episode of Moving Upstream, we travelled to Asia to see the next generation of industrial robots, what they’re capable of, and whether they’re friend or foe to low-skilled workers. facebook […]
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Published Thursday December 21 2017 10:28 am.
The Winter Solstice is associated the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and occurs this year at 10:28 a.m. CST. Due to the tilt of the earth’s axis and the position of the earth in orbit, the northern hemisphere is tilted further from the sun, and the southern hemisphere is tilted […]
Published Thursday December 21 2017 10:11 am.
The Most Beautiful Scenic Pictures of the Week — Chicagoland sunsets, sunrises, skylines and more. Millennium Park pic.twitter.com/CPixewKZFc — Jessyca Malina (@jessycamalina) December 20, 2017 Tuesday Morning Along Chicago's Lakefront #ilwx #news #weather #chicago pic.twitter.com/VIR9jaa64L — Barry Butler (@barrybutler9) December 19, 2017 The Chicago skyline never gets old! pic.twitter.com/nsuTY8iSCz — Hyatt Centric CHI (@HyattCentricCHI) December […]
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Published Tuesday December 12 2017 11:25 pm.
Citizen scientists who voluntarily collect and record data on bats, birds, frogs or other animals, have a new tool from a Boston-based company, Wildlife Acoustics, for finding bats. Danielle Gustafson, Board Member at Bat Conservation International, explains bat echolocation detection, which is facilitated by a technology company known as Wildlife Acoustics. The app with its […]
Posted in Science
Published Monday November 20 2017 11:59 pm.
We asked 12 CEOs and business titans about the future of the world in 10 years. Mark Cuban, Bob Iger, Reid Hoffman, Kevin Systrom, Brad Keywell, David Zaslav, Dee Dee Myers, Ted Sarandos, Richard Plepler, Yael Aflalo, Daniella Vitale and Bill McGlashan answer our questions about the future of automation, driverless cars, virtual reality, print […]
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