25 best inventions of 2015 by Time magazine

"Hoverboard"

Half Segway, skateboard half - a "girotsikl-hoverboard." Hover translates to English as "soar", and although in this case the 'hoverboard' does not hang over the land, he nevertheless won the title of this year's most popular product. Among the fans of "hoverboard" - Jimmy Fallon (Jimmy Fallon) and Kendall Jenner (Kendall Jenner).

When a person jumps on the 'hoverboard', the device uses a pair of electric gyros - one under each stupnoy to balance automatically. Managed by the board transfer the body weight. Because of this, you can do different tricks and even dance. Yellin Max (Maxx Yellin), co-founder of PhunkeeDuck, one of the 20 companies that produce "hoverboard"I see great prospects for the device.

"Hoverboard" can become the new mode of transport to move around the city or university.

While the British government has recently caused a stir by announcing the use of "hoverboard" on public sidewalks outside the law. Depending on the brand and features of the cost of "hoverboard" varies from 350 to 1 700 dollars. Well, for the convenience comes at a price.

underground park

This park you have not seen. Dan Barash (Dan Barasch) and architect James Ramsey (James Ramsey) are trying to turn an abandoned underground tram depot in New York in Lowline park full of greenery and flowering plants and seating areas under sun. This was made possible thanks to "remote sunlight." It collects the sunlight that is reflected from the surrounding roofs, and sends it to the ground by means of fiber-optic cables. Under the dome park located reflective elements that scatter light necessary for plant growth.

To prove the viability of invented technology, Barash and Ramsey have created a prototype of the park - Lowline Lab. For the creation of the park you want to get a few more permits and 70 million dollars. But Dan, who has already attracted more than 3300 supporters at a Kickstarter, it's not scary. He was confident that the abandoned space can be used for the public good.

A sensor that detects the presence of gluten

Millions of people suffering from celiac disease or intolerance gluten, Worry that the food in restaurants can contain an increased amount of protein traces. Nima sensor, which will be sold in the next year, make their lives easier, allowing you to check any food and drink for two minutes.

The sample is placed in the device, and antibodies that are located in a disposable cartridge, start searching traces of gluten. If they are found on the Nima appears frowning smiley - if not a smile. Shirin Yates (Shireen Yates), co-founder of 6SensorLabs, who suffers from gluten intolerance, dreams, people will be able to go out and not be afraid in this case for health. The company hopes to apply the same technology to detect the presence of other allergens in food, such as peanuts or dairy products.

bionic ears

If you are in unbearably noisy place, you have two options: plug your ears or put up. But what if you can remove only one annoying sound, not drowning out the rest? Or just turn down the volume, as in the TV? Such an effect is promising with headphones Here Active Listening system from Doppler Labs from New York.

Unlike other hearing aids, which amplify or muffle all the sounds at the same time, these headphones synchronized with the app for a smartphone, where the user can manually select the sound that he wants get rid of. That is, you can stand on the platform in the subway and normally talk, drowning out the sounds of trains disturbing. Or, let's say, to muffle the crying baby on a plane and at the same time to hear the rest.

Kraft Noah (Noah Kraft), the head of the Doppler Labs, calls headphones Here supplemented audiorealnostyu. They were originally designed for musicians and concerts, but now available to everyone. Delivery will begin in December.

digital stethoscope

Listen to the heart beats of the patient through a stethoscope and identify violations, relying only on your ears and experience - a problem on the border between medicine and art. But not with Eko Core. Connect this adapter to a conventional stethoscope, you can download the sound of heart beats in a smartphone. Then, it analyzes the sound application and compares it with the entries made previously, which will help doctors detect noise, heart valve abnormalities and other abnormalities that can not catch with the naked ear.

Ceychas being tested Eko Core at the University of California in San Francisco. They are led by Dr. John Ciorba (John Chorba), a cardiologist and inventor consultant. If the device is working as it should, it will reduce the number of errors in diagnosis and will eliminate the costly tests such as echocardiography.

Augmented Reality Headset

Virtual reality headsets, such as Oculus Rift, Transport you into the ocean with the dolphins or in the thick of the battle of Waterloo. BUT HoloLens Microsoft complements your reality. Wearing a headset, you can protect your home from the attack of the robots "do surgery" on a real person, to manage 3D-models. Already HoloLens used by NASA to simulate the terrain of Mars in laboratories and medical students to analyze the virtual internal organs.

Pasta, energizing

"I ate too much pasta and feel like crap" - talking about the usual pasta Brian Rudolph (Brian Rudolph), the creator of Banza. Banza - a paste made of chickpeas instead of wheat. This simple change, which could come through trial and error, now makes it possible to enjoy a healthy dinner.

Banza (short for garbanzo - one of the names chickpeas) Contains twice as much protein and four times more fiber than normal pasta, but much less carbohydrates and gluten. Doubt that it is good to taste, then look at the sales statistics. Paste Banza started selling last year in two US stores, it is now to be found in 1700 stores including Fairway supermarkets, where it became the most recently sold toothpaste, surpassing even traditional.

Now Rudolph and his brother Scott are planning to remake and foods such as pizza and porridge.

People want to eat healthy food. We see Banza decent and full replacement for your favorite products.

Desktop DNA laboratory

DNA chain research can take a whole day. Juno reduces this process up to three hours, thus facilitating the task of finding scientist bone marrow donors and medicines for autoimmune diseases. The key to success - Fluidigm chip, which can examine a sample of 1 000 times smaller than a drop of water. And at an excellent device "streamlined" design. Marc Unger (Marc Unger), senior vice president, Fluidigm, sees a lot of opportunities for application of the new device in hospitals and laboratories.

House helps homeless rebuild their lives

Housing for the homeless - it is usually temporary shelters or warehouses. Star Apartments in Los Angeles break this idea for its design, looks more like a small village, not a single building. 102 studio apartments, four terraces, a clinic on the ground floor and garden, jogging track and a space for classrooms. The task of the shelter - to cure people of discarded urban clinics, help to solve some questions and perhaps start anew.

safe truck

Every year thousands of people are injured and killed in traffic accidents because they do not see the danger because of the trucks. This is especially true in Argentina, with its narrow and winding roads. Samsung and Leo Burnett advertising agency found a creative solution to the problem and created a system that translates Video from the cameras in front of the truck on four screens from behind, giving drivers a clear picture happening. During the first test truck with Safety Truck overcame 1 000 km in three days without incident. Now Samsung develops technologies and works with Argentine officials on its widespread introduction.

Tracker child health

"Everything is in order with my baby? "To this question, exciting parent company is going to answer Sproutling, releasing its first product. A device similar to the usual fitness devices, fixes the child heart rate, body temperature, position and other data and, if there is cause for alarm, send parents a notice in the application for smartphone.

After the unit will study the habits of the child, it will be able to predict, for example, when he wakes up. CEO and father of two children, Chris Bruce (Chris Bruce) said that the aim of the project - to give parents more data about the behavior and well-being of children.

Airport for drones

Amazon and Google are dreaming to deliver the goods drones. However, there is one question: where they are based? For guidance giants can turn to Rwanda, where begins the construction of the first airport to drones. This innovation will allow to quickly deliver to food, medicine, electronics and other goods.

According to the representative of the architectural firm Foster + Partners, a leading construction of the first phase of the project in Rwanda rather modest. However, it can be a catalyst for similar initiatives in countries which also need to speed up the delivery of vital things. Airport in Rwanda plan to finish in 2020.

Underwear for "those" days

For decades, women use during menstruation pads and tampons. It is not always convenient, moreover, requires monthly costs. Could very comfortable underwear to protect against leaks? This question set sisters-twins Miki and Radha Agrawal (Miki and Radha Agrawal) with Sri Lanka. Together with another partner - Dunbar Antonia (Antonia Dunbar) - they opened the production of classic panties and strings, which can replace the gasket.

The four panties moisture-retaining layer of the antimicrobial fabric. They are reusable, after use, simply wash. Depending on the characteristics of the organism, someone will be able to use only her panties, and someone will need additional protection.

Bed in a Box

Buying a new mattress - very long and nervous activity. You befalls an avalanche of options from which to choose one falls painfully. Philip Krim (Philip Krim), CEO of Casper, has decided to make life easier for fans of comfortable sleep. The idea is simple: to offer our customers a mattress only one style.

It's comfortable, thanks to the use of foam mix, inexpensive and sold online. For client mattress comes vacuum-packed. During the 100 days it can be returned back if he did not like it. However, Krim says that this rarely happens. It is expected that sales of Casper mattresses this year will exceed $ 75 million.

Virtual brush and canvas

About 450 years ago, invented the pencil. During this time he has become so commonplace that we have forgotten how it is a wonderful thing. They can write at any angle, and the color saturation depends on the pressing force. Blots can be easily erased. Playback features pencil digitally occupied the minds of engineers for many years, which is why Apple's latest invention is so impressive.

Apple Pencil It allows users to draw and write on the screen, as if it were a sheet of paper. It works in tandem with the iPad Pro - tablet, which is faster than 80% of laptops sold in the last year. This combination promises the emergence of new ways of creating paintings, animation, drawings.

You can touch anywhere on the screen, it only responds to the pencil. And it's amazing.

Shark Don (Don Shank), art director of Pixar

Sneakers that you can "tie" with one hand

In 2012, Matthew Walzer (Matthew Walzer), who suffers from cerebral palsy, sent a letter to Nike. The teenager told him that he wanted to go to college, his choosing, and not have to worry at the same time every day, someone will have to help him tie his shoes.

Liked the idea of ​​Nike, because shoes with a simple method of lacing suitable for all consumers and make life easier for special people like Matthew. This year Nike together with the famous basketball player LeBron James (LeBron James) introduced Flyease 8 - sneakers with a mechanism controlled by one hand.

This is reminiscent of the opening and closing of the door.

Toby Hatfield (Tobie Hatfield), the chief designer of the project team

You just have to pull the strap, which will tighten the lace. Still have work to do: if you pull the strap too quickly or too much, the buckle can break. However, Matthew Walzer, who is now a sophomore at the University of Florida, said that Nike Flyease 8 already gives him a great sense of independence and convenience.

Frying pan with Bluetooth

When we cook unfamiliar dish, then we ask ourselves the same questions: Do frying pan enough, whether it is time to stop, the food is ready or still need to hold? Pantelligent pan will respond to them. Attached to the smartphone choose a recipe, and a frying pan, using Bluetooth and heat sensor sends a notification on the screen. So you know exactly when to turn over steakTo prozharka was average.

When Pantelligent founders Humberto Evans (Humberto Evans) and Mike Robbins (Mike Robbins) Only ponders concept pans at MIT, Umberto perfectly cooked, but Mike could hardly fry scrambled eggs. Now, according to Evans, his former roommate easy to prepare chicken Piccata. So that the use of "smart pan", which went on sale October, is obvious.

The book, which filters water

663 million people can not afford to clean drinking waterBecause filtering - a complicated and expensive process. Bail can Drinkable Book, which the scientists have developed a few years. Her page - water filters which retain up to 99% of the harmful bacteria. These data were obtained during the test books in Bangladesh, Ghana and South Africa. Instructions for use are available on the pages of the book.

Although researchers have yet to determine whether the "book" to remove all contaminants, including viruses, are full of inventors optimistic and argue that they already have partners who are willing to finance large-scale testing and production.

Vacuum cleaner ocean

If you catch all the plastic waste in the Pacific Ocean, it takes an area equal to the area of ​​Texas. And it more and more every day. Catching debris networks - an expensive and time-consuming process. Ocean Cleanup Project developers offer to place a floating barrier of 100 km and a total cost of 15 million dollars and capture debris from the flow.

The network will be placed at a distance of three meters from the surface of the water so that the fish can swim. If the tests in the next year will be successful, thorough cleaning will begin in 2020. Researchers estimate that in 10 years it will help reduce the amount of waste by 42%.

Personal air pollution detector

Tzoa detector detects the composition of the air around you, so you do not breathe pollutants or allergens. Stationary device developed by Kevin Hart (Kevin R. Hart), measures the temperature, the amount of solid particles (dust, pollen, mold, exhaust gas) density solar radiation and sends data to the cloud institutions that can carry out the analysis air.

In May, the company plans to start production of portable detectors. Thanks to them, it will be possible to schedule pedestrian routes so as to avoid allergens such as pollen, for example.

The ball, which teaches kids to code

The demand for programmers is growing rapidly, so the company Made by Many offers to teach children programming at an early age. Hackaball - toy, which is synchronized with the mobile application allows users to program when and how it will light up. This can be used in the game. During one of the tests the children were asked the settings that change the color of the ball after a random amount of time, and played in the "hot potato."

William Owen (William Owen), strategic director of Made by Many, says that feature Hackaball that this programming is applicable in real life, rather than the abstract coding to screen. It seems that this concept for many to taste: it was supported on Kickstarter 2800 users. They collected 240,000 dollars. The first copies will be delivered Hackaball in January.

Virtual reality of the piece of cardboard

The hype surrounding virtual reality devices rightly centered around premium headsets, such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, which cost several hundred dollars. but google Cardboard It is of a kind of revolutionary thing. Since 2014, each of the pieces of cardboard can build your virtual reality device, using free instruction and a smartphone. There are applications that can be used to operate the machine, or to visit a concert, you can even play an exciting game.

We tell people, "Hey, just insert your smartphone in a piece of cardboard, and you see something spectacular!" And when they do, they are in shock.

Beyvor Clay (Clay Bavor), Google

Musical instrument that simulates dozens of other

According to statistics, 70% of adults would like to regularly play a musical instrument, but only 5% do. This is partly because it is difficult to choose only one tool. Artiphon simulates dozens of different tools. And not only in sound but also on the manner of the game.

On it you can strum like a guitar or pounding as on the piano keys. And you can combine options and if to play the banjo, and sometimes drumming on it. Artiphon already raised $ 1.3 million on Kickstarter.

We are trying to open a new path to musical creativity.

Jacob Gordon (Jacob Gordon), founder Artiphon

Electric SUV

Tesla Model XPresented in September, not just exotic, but fit for the car. This electric SUV can travel 402 km on a single charge and has a capacity of seven passengers. The rear doors open up the Model X, reminding the car of the future, and the car accelerates to 100 km in less than four seconds. Understated center of gravity ensures good handling, which is rare for an SUV. The head of Tesla Elon Musk (Elon Musk) says that consumers should see: any car can make electric.

The toy, which you can chat

Unlike other talking toys that only repeat the phrase for the child, dinosaur, made using IBM's Watson technology intelligently communicates with children aged 5 to 9 years. He can respond to preset questions, such as: "What is the distance to the moon?" And hear the children's responses. So that the dinosaur helps children develop math skills by asking questions, for example, "How much is 2 + 2?" And "Can you count to 10?".