FMRI scans being used as lie detecting machines. Researched by Dr.’s Scott Faro and Feroze Mohamed at Temple University, this new test may prove to be much more accurate that the Polygraph that is used today. FMRI scans allow doctors and scientists to view the activity of the brain during the scan. As Faro and Mohamed point out, the brain has to work much harder to try and lie than to just tell the truth because it has to suppress memories when it lies. This could be the key to using the fMRI as a lie detecting machine.

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• http://www.temple.edu/tunl/WhatisfMRI.htm
• http://mythbustersresults.com/episode93
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7KULfQ69jI

Designed by the toilet manufacturer Toto for Japanese housing company Daiwa House, the Intelligent Toilet offers an instant health check-up every time people use the bathroom. The Intelligent Toilet has the technology to provide urine analysis, taking a person’s blood pressure and temperature, and measure a person’s weight. The toilet, designed for the elderly and those concerned with their help, allows people to constantly monitor their wellbeing and even send the information to their doctors.

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• http://www.daiwahouse.co.jp/lab/en/result/result11.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH5U9rOWXeM

In the future, the term ‘ziggurat’ will no longer refers to the temple towers of the ancient Mesopotamian: Timelinks, a Dubai-based pioneering environmental design company, has chosen it to describe the sustainable city of the future. Using the basic idea of a pyramid structure, Timelinks has created renderings of a 100% self-sustainable and totally environmentally friendly super-structure. The city is planned to house more than 1 million inhabitants and will be a true architectural colossus.

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• http://www.timelinks.org

By offering the possibility of always bringing music along for the ride, the walkman became one of the most popular gadgets in the 1980’s. Today, times have changed. Swedish company Tonium has created a way for people to deejay anywhere and anytime. Pacemaker, a portable audio mixer, allows people to create music in a simple and efficient manner at any time.

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• http://www.pacemaker.net/

There are many ways to help make the world a greener place, and Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe Program is doing just that, by collecting, recycling, and reusing old sneakers to make new athletic surfaces. Cities and institutions all over the world are combining forces to collect shoes for this program. Nike’s Reuse-A-Shoe Program recycles used sneakers into athletic surfaces, such as basketball and tennis courts. One city, Elk Grove, California, has already collected 4,000 pairs of used athletic shoes, in an effort to keep them out of landfills.

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• http://www.nikereuseashoe.com
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiRFVI0e_qw

As pollution becomes an ever-increasing problem, people are finding new and creative ways of checking pollution levels and creating awareness of environmental problems. A collaboration of Diffus, Alexandra Institute, The Danish Design School, and Forster Rohner has produced the Climate Dress, which responds to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Powered by the LilyPad Arduino microprocessor and a carbon dioxide detector, the high-fashion dress emits light patterns depending on the concentration of CO₂.

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• http://vimeo.com/groups/688/videos/12976898

iWallet Corporations has developed a wallet that prevents identity theft by making a wallet that can only be opened through a fingerprint scan. It can also be paired with your cell phone via Bluetooth technology to alert you when you forget your phone, or when your wallet is more than 10ft away from your phone. Available in carbon fiber, carbon fiber and Kevlar, and fiber glass.

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• http://www.iwalletusa.com/

LifeStraw, developed by Europe-based Vestergaard Frandsen, is a portable water filter for prevention of common diseases caused by unsanitary water. LifeStraw is an innovative product, designed with the United Nations Millennium Development Goals in mind. The product can filter up to 700 liters of water and removes 99.99% waterborne bacteria. With this product, millions of lives can be saved.

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• http://www.vestergaard-frandsen.com/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzzCSATFiyM