AQI India review: This app will show you real-time pollution level around you

The WasteShark swims in to salvage our streams, lakes, and wetlands from of trash, litter and garbage. It is a GPSequipped aquadrone that can collect waste and swim for eight hours at a stretch. The Level-1 autonomous aquadrone has customisable sensors that can measure environmental data such as depth, pH balance, salinity and temperature of the water.

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Ghost nets are among the greatest killers in our oceans today. Remora is an app and hardware system by designer Alejandro Plasencia that embraces the Internet of Things to tackle the ghost net phenomenon. The system notifies fishermen when a net is ripped, thanks to its RFID-enabled monitoring system.

It’s a pioneering project underway to make the world’s first self-powered plasticeating ship to locate, retrieve and recycle plastic from the ocean. Central to its design are collection systems at the side and front of the vessel which will deploy and draw in plastic. The plastic is then chopped finely, milled and heated to super-high temperatures to produce a low-polluting gas to drive the ship.

Amid growing concerns about the extinction of honeybees, designer Julian Schwarze’s award-winning Bee2Bee concept offers a new way to stop the decline by reinventing the beehive as a sustainable digital ecosystem. Bee2Bee is a mobile and quick-to-assemble culture system for bees. By digitally monitoring the hives, the system simplifies the medical treatment and care of the insects.

Astroscale is one of the few companies in the business of orbital debris mitigation through End of Life (EOL) and Active Debris Removal (ADR) services. The startup offers technical solutions and business cases for the service while working with space agencies. The first (ELSA-d) demonstration mission — scheduled to launch in early 2020 — consists of two spacecrafts, a ‘chaser’ and a ‘target’ stacked together. The chaser will release and capture the target in a series of demonstrations proving the capability to find and capture orbital debris.

It is an app-based virtual coach in the form of a cartoon penguin that helps alleviate your anxiety and crappy moods. The ‘emotionally intelligent’ bot responds to the emotions you express and uses evidencebased cognitive-behavioural techniques, breathing, yoga, motivational interviewing and micro-actions to help you build mental resilience skills.