30 Cool High Tech #Gadgets you will love for your home

Gadgets are becoming a part of our everyday life and like the mobile phone (one of the first gadgets) we are starting to be addicted, depending on them for our daily actions. As technology advances, so do these gadgets that we are fond of and we are amazed by the new concepts created by young and ambitious designers. These innovations appear from a necessity of solving the problems that old products have and besides new and improved functions, they also come with a beautiful design.

Transparent TV

The transparent tv designed by Michael Friebe is a marvelous piece of technology that combines conventional LCD and the latest TOLED display technology. This allows to create non-transparent / solid moving pictures with rich color reproduction and full contrast range from solid black to pristine white.

Floor Plan Light switch

Have you ever had a problem with forgetting which light switch stands for what light? Taewon Hwang came with the great idea of creating a master light switch with a simple design that shows you what lights you are turning on or off.

The AURA Lamp

Looking almost alien like, the AURA lamp lights up a room with a certain texture and that is because it’s a woven lamp hand made in France.

Dimensional Wall Panels

People aren’t familiar with 3D wall panels. I don’t know why, cause they surely bring a nice feel to a room, with their interesting shapes that create a beautiful arrangement of light and shadows. They can also be put in shops, restaurants, offices and because of their different that usual look they transmit a nice futuristic look.

The RIMA lamp

The RIMA lamp is one like no other because of its interesting feature that allows you to control the light via four controller rings that you can slide. This beautiful lamp created by Matthias Pinkert has a processor which controls the heat, intensity, angle of the beam and color.

Sony Eclipse

This Sony Eclipse concept created by Hoang M Nguyen and Anh Nguyen is a media player that uses photovoltaic cells situated on its backside to draw in solar power. With this player you have a slight change of seeing the battery low warning very very rare.

Pouring Light Lamp

A strange but interesting lamp that will surely be sold really fast if it would be put in stores is this one created by Yeongwoo Kim. The lamp uses LED lights that are situated in the bucket and with the help of phosphorescence in the “water” it lights in a marvelous way.

Door Handle With Self-sterilization System

Senzo Nightlight

It’s really annoying during the night when you wake up and not find the light switch. The solution is provided by Soledad Clavell and Marcos Madia who created this wonderful nightlight that lights up the room when touching it.

 

 

Electrolux Fireplace

This fireplace created by Camillo Vanacore for Electrolux looks almost magical because of its transformation from off to on, from an opaque ceramic column to a transparent one.

 

Eco Cleaner

Without using regular dish detergents, the Eco Cleaner makes the plates bright and fresh using ultrasonic waves to ionize food particles on the dishes, converting the food into reusable compost for plants. Less waste and more nutrients for plants are a good idea for the future and a solution for enriching the soil. Of course, we’re talking about the soil for the plants that you keep in your apartment.

Document Extractor – Combi Monitor

Saving space on the desk has always been a problem for some and to solve this issue Byeong Min Choe has come up with a marvelous idea of combining a printer and a monitor.

On Switch

Minimalistic and elegant. That’s how you define this light switch created by Burakov Denis.

Green Smart Glass

The Green Smart Glass has an interesting technology that harnesses the heat energy from the hot beverage and stores it to be used later.

 

iQ Alarm clock

Instead of the snooze button which you unwillingly press in the morning, this alarm clock has questions that need your lucidity to solve them. This way, you will surely get up fast in the morning.

Change It! Wall

This wall has been passed around on the internet for some time and has become a neat attraction. It’s not LED or anything digital, it’s actually made of turning triangles with different colors on them, white, black and a rainbow color. It is limited at these three options for now, but I’m sure we’ll see in the future various patterns and images.

Orbital Washing Machine

Washing clothes has never been so easy. With the incorporated basket you can load and unload the clothes in the washing machine as easy as 1, 2, 3. This isn’t the only innovative feature. The spherical drum is moving on two axes washing your clothes better than the old washing machines that use only one axe.

Bediator

Having a warm bed underneath you is a cool thing, especially if you’re in a place where winters are incredibly cold. Now I don’t know how much weight this bed radiator-bed supports but if it can take two medium people it is awesome.

LED Ceiling

This is an interesting concept created by Seo Dong-Hun that allows you to create on the ceiling the light shapes you want. Literally, you can paint the ceiling with light. Imagine the artworks that would result from some people’s imagination.

LULA Lung Lamp

LULA is a product that collects data and indicates the air quality in your room. If it’s connected to the internet, it can process the data and tell you the health issues that you are facing in that situation and how you can avoid having problems caused by the quality of air.

WAT Lamp

The WAT lamp has the interesting ability to generate light if you fuel it with water. Yeah, it sounds outrageously futuristic, but the system is actually not that strange. The water combines with a hydroelectric battery to generate an electrochemical reaction that lights it up.

Miranda

This surface tile is not for everyone but it is fun for sure, having the ability to morph the way you want it and create shapes and basic drawings on it. More info can be found on Giles Miller’s site.

WAVE Ultra Sonic Wine Ager And Refrigerator

Ever wanted to age your wine so that it will be of a higher quality? Now you can, it’s not only a movie idea. Designer Mika Yamamoto has created this device that does this incredible thing. The Wave uses magnetic cooling system that is based on the magnetocaloric effect, which is the ability of some materials to heat up when magnetized and cool when removed from the magnetic field. It reduces carbon emissions and increases energy efficiency. It can possibly cut energy consumption by 40%. It also reduces the cost of electricity.

The Wave Dish Washer

This dishwasher beautifully designed by Guilherme Parolin makes the action of washing dishes a piece of cake thanks to its user friendly control panel.

Swan Umbrella Dryer

Drying up a wet umbrella has always been a problem. Till Noh Seon Mi designed the Swan Umbrella Dryer, of course.

 

1limit Faucet

Unlike the +- water faucet which only tells you how much you consume and doesn’t technically help you to reduce your costs, the 1litre limited faucet helps you to consume only the water that you need.

iChef+ Oven

From what I’ve seen on the market, the ovens are not user friendly at all, having changed over the years only at an aesthetic level without modifying the process in which you actually cook the meal. The iChef Oven has an innovative and powerful computer behind it’s technology and I believe it can be considered a milestone in its niche.

The Book Light

This product with integrated LEDs in a plastic body is an interesting product for the people who read a lot and need a discreet light over their pages. Don’t worry about the light being to powerful, cause you can adjust it as you please.

The Tulip Bath/Shower

In a small bathroom there’s always a problem with space and the Tulip Bath/Shower designed by Piotr Pyrtek provides the solution. Saving space is not its only feature, having a number of characteristics that qualifies it as a luxury item, like underwater jets or massage programs.

French parliament eyes plan for govt to pay for all abortions

AFP Photo / Alain Jocard

French lawmakers have passed legislation that will fully finance abortions for women and provide free contraception to minors. The bill is part of President Francois Hollande’s new social security budget and will come into effect in 2013.

On Friday, the French lower house of parliament passed a bill stipulating, “women who want to stop an unwanted pregnancy have the right to be covered.” The legislation will now go through to the Senate, where it is likely to be passed in November.

French Health Minister Marisol Tourine championed the legislation, and hailed its passage as a “historic move,” adding that the “act of abortion is never a trifling matter” for women.

Under the new bill, the French state will also provide minors with free contraception in the hopes of “lifting the financial barrier impeding girls younger than 18 from access to contraception.”

Under current French law, minors are the only group that receives full reimbursement from the National Health Service for abortions, while adult women are refunded up to 80 percent of abortion costs, often amounting to over 450 euros ($580). The new measures are estimated to cost the French taxpayer an extra 31.7 million euros ($50 million).

Feminist groups hailed the step as a significant advance for women’s rights in France.

“This is a very important move, especially for women who are in the most precarious position without health coverage,” family planning secretary Marie-Pierre Martinet said. She pointed to a general indifference to abortion by French doctors and hospitals as worrying, saying that there was a shortfall of medical centers offering abortion.

One prominent critique of the new bill was the government’s failure to address access to abortion services in France. President Hollande has pledged to eliminate the issue by obliging “every medical institution to open an abortion clinic.”

Jacqueline Fraysse, a member of the French Communist Party, decried the frequent delays for abortion services in French hospitals. He cited waiting lists of up to five weeks for the procedure, well beyond the recommended five days.

Moreover, some politicians have argued that tackling the lack of education among minors concerning safe sex would reduce abortion rates.

“The 100 percent reimbursement of abortion is a quick-fix solution, what needs to be improved is the accessibility to medical facilities and professionals because girls of 15 to 18 years don’t need contraception, what they need is information,” a general delegate of The National Network of Student Relations explained to French newspaper Le Figaro.

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‘An explosion of abortions among minors’

In the run-up to the French presidential election in May of this year, then-candidate Hollande pledged to introduce the abortion amendments to the social security budget. Presidential rival Marine Le Pen of the right-wing Front National Party attacked the legislation, arguing it would lead to an “explosion of abortions among minors.”

However, according to data collected by the French Ministry of Health, the number of abortions for minors in France has steadily decreased over the few years. In 2011, 11,670 abortions for minors were carried out, compared to 11,930 in 2008 and 12,855 in 2006.

France is currently one of the only countries in the European Union that allows minors to have abortions without any parental consent and was also the first country to permit the use of RU-486, which terminates pregnancy by causing the embryo to detach from the uterine wall.

Woman Slammed With $15 Quadrillion Phone Bill

If there was ever an incentive to double-check your phone bills, this would be it: A woman in France was just slammed with a quadrillion dollar phone bill. Yes, really.

A woman named Solenne San Jose — who cancelled her account with French phone company Bouygues Telecom — has reportedly received a bill in the mail for $15 quadrillion or €11,721,000,000,000,000.

Although she knew there would be a cancellation fee for terminating the account ahead of the contract agreement, it was hardly the fine she was expecting.

“There were so many zeros I couldn’t even work out how much it was,” San Jose told French news site Sud Ouest.

The real kicker is that San Jose said she had difficult time convincing the company that it was actually an error. After identifying the issue as a printing problem, she was billed for only €117.21, or $151.

Do you always check your phone bills or trust the company is billing you correctly? Let us know in the comments.

Richest Countries in the World in 2012

If wealth describes power, then the United Sates leads the pack and India is not far behind either.

The 10 richest countries in the world based on their GDP are:

1. United States of America:

The United States of America is the richest country in the world and ranks first on the list. The U.S. is a market-oriented economy where private individuals and business companies make most of the decisions. The U.S. economy is the world’s largest national economy, with an estimated GDP of $15.1 trillion in 2011.

2. China:

China is the second richest country in the world. China’s annual GDP growth is 2.26 percent earning $7,743.144 trillion. The country’s economy is the second largest in the world after that of the United States. During the past thirty years China’s economy has changed from a centrally planned system that was largely closed to international trade to a more market-oriented one that has a rapidly growing private sector.  A chief component supporting China’s rapid economic growth has been exports growth.

3. Japan:

Japan is the second Asian country which is on the list. It is the third wealthiest country in the world. Japan is renowned for its aggressiveness in the global economy market having an upper hand in multi-national operation. The country has a USD $6,124.899 trillion. The Japanese economy is the third largest in the world. Japan is the world’s second largest automobile manufacturing country and has the largest electronics goods industry. The country is the world’s largest creditor nation as well. Its economy is highly efficient and competitive in areas linked to international trade, though productivity is far lower in protected areas such as agriculture, distribution, and services.

4. Germany:

 Germany takes the fourth place on the list. It is also the richest country in Europe and has produced a sum of USD $3,706.970 trillion. Ever since the age of industrialization, the country has been a driver, innovator, and beneficiary of an ever more globalised economy. Germany is the largest national economy in Europe. The country is the world’s second largest exporter and its exports account for more than one-third of national output.

5. France:

France is the fifth richest country in the world. The country has long been part of the world’s wealthiest and most developed national economies. France is believed to be the second biggest economic strength in Europe due to France’s focus on various industrial support and new age industrialized nations. Achieving USD $2,889.708 trillion booked at the end of year 2011 and 2012 makes France feature on the top five richest nations.

6. Brazil:

Brazil ranks sixth on the list. It is the richest South American county. The country had a closed nominal GDP of 0.80 percent earning USD $2,617.987 trillion before the end of 2011. The Brazilian economy is the world’s sixth largest by nominal GDP and is expected to become fifth by the end of 2012. Brazil’s earning come directly from their service segment, mining, manufacturing products and farming harvest. The country has moderately free markets and an inward-oriented economy. It is also known to be the fastest-growing major economies in the world with an average annual GDP growth rate of over 5 percent.

7. United Kingdom:

United Kingdom takes the seventh place on the list. UK had an average nominal GDP escalation of 0.58 percent earning USD $2,603.880 trillion at the end of 2011. UK’s GDP per capita is the twenty second highest in the world in nominal terms and the twenty second highest measured by PPP. It is the world’s most globalised countries. Its aerospace industry is one of the largest national aerospace industries and the pharmaceutical industry of the country plays an important role in its economy as well. The British economy is boosted by North Sea oil and gas reserves which was valued at an estimated £250 billion in 2007.

8. Italy:

Italy takes the eighth spot on the top 10 list of richest countries in 2012. Italy is a member of the G8 group of leading industrialized countries. The country has broadened its horizons for its industrial and road and rail network developments. Due to this advancement, the country has a nominal GDP of USD $2,287.704 trillion. The country has a diversified industrial economy with high gross domestic product per capita and developed infrastructure. The Italian economy is driven in large part by the manufacture of high-quality consumer goods that are produced by small and medium-sized enterprises.

9. Russia:

Russia takes the ninth position on the list. In 2011 Russia’s GDP grew by 4.2 percent, which is the world’s third highest growth rate among leading economies. The country has the ninth largest economy in the world by nominal value and the sixth largest by purchasing power parity. Russia is also abundant in natural gas, coal, oil and precious metals. Russia’s capital, Moscow, is noted to have the highest billionaire population of any city in the world.

10. India:

Surprisingly India makes it to the top 10 list of richest countries in the world. India takes the tenth place. India has the eleventh largest Economy in the world by nominal GDP and the third largest by purchasing power parity. The country’s present up-to-date development according to GDP is USD $2.012.760.000 million and this was predicted by the economists in the beginning of 2011. As a matter of fact, by means of the assessment, there was an 8.2 percent progress before the year 2011 came to an end.

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