Popular Science Magazine announces 2016 Invention awards winners

More of the futuristic technology that you just solely noticed in films is coming to life, and ahead of you might think about.

Popular Science journal says the “golden age of invention is here.” Their new challenge options the “2016 Invention Awards,” which spotlight this year’s 10 biggest creations by impartial inventors. For the tenth annual checklist, editors regarded for distinctive merchandise that may disrupt the tech world.

“These are independent inventors, so it’s a group of friends who decided to build a startup in their garage, it’s someone who was tinkering and decided to make his own hoverboard,” Sophie Bushwick, project editor at Popular Science, advised “CBS This Morning” Tuesday.

You could bear in mind Rosie the robotic maid from “The Jetsons.” Forty years after the cartoon first aired, now you can have your very personal robotic companion, referred to as “Jibo.” It was invented by MIT researcher Cynthia Breazeal who needed to create a robotic that was “fun to hang out with.”

While it has most of the qualities of Amazon’s Echo with its Alexa persona, Jibo is distinguished by its skill to socialize.

“It can tell you a bed time story, it can take a photo of you and your friends hanging out. It can even learn individual preferences,” Bushwick stated.

Remember the flying hoverboard from the Eighties teen sensation, “Back to the Future II?” That can be now not an merchandise of the long run. Inventor Alexandru Duru of Canada broke a Guiness World Record, flying a distance of over 900 ft, balancing 16 ft above the water’s floor.

Duru plans to have the hoverboard prepared for distribution by 2017.

Some innovations are greater than for pure leisure, just like the PSM tablet — brief for physiological standing monitoring — that may monitor important indicators like your coronary heart rate, respiration rate and physique temperature.

“Normally, measuring that kind of thing would take an invasive technique,” Bushwick stated. “With this, you just swallow the pill and it streams your data.”

So far, the tablet has not been examined in people and it’s nonetheless being developed.

Another invention on the checklist is the Eora 3D Scanner that works alongside along with your smartphone and might scan objects and faces.

“The idea is you take multiple 3D scans, the software stitches it together into a higher-resolution image and then you can print that in your 3D printer,” Buschwick stated.

The checklist of winners additionally features a self-powered camera, the robotic that prints a bridge and extra. Check out all of the 2016 Invention Awards winners here.