The new water purifier will be a portable, low-power system that will simplify the process of bringing clean water to rural areas. The purifier will work by boiling the water until it turns to steam, which will then be compressed back to liquid water in a pure, distilled form. A hose attached to the device will be inserted into the water - be it ocean water, a mud puddle or even liquid from a chemical waste site. The water will be drawn into the purifier and heated to its boiling...

The small, clip-on translation device will use one-line translation services to translate in real-time without needing to access a smartphone directly. The device will translate up to 25 languages in real-time. It will be equipped with a microphone, speaker and two buttons to designate the first and second language, and will pair with the user's smartphone via Bluetooth, which will allow it to access pre-existing online translation services. The user will set their native language...

The Kite patch will offer an alternative to toxic sprays, and a new way to fight the spread of diseases, by using a blend of ingredients that make humans invisible to mosquitoes. The device will be a disposable square only 1.5 inches on each side and will be meant to be worn on the clothing. The patch will be embedded with a proprietary blend of non-toxic, FDA approved compounds that will disrupt the mosquitoes' ability to track humans through exhaled carbon dioxide. Each patch...

A new contact lens-and-glasses system will let you zoom in on something to 2.8 times magnification. The lenses will do the zooming, while the glasses will let you switch between normal and magnified vision. The lens will be made of concentric regions. The middle region will let light through normally, for standard vision. Meanwhile, the edges of the lens will be specially designed to reflect light and magnify it. The final lens will be 1.17 millimeters at its thickest...

A new blood pressure sensor about the size of a wristwatch should help ease the discomfort of patients who require continual blood pressure monitoring. The device will be worn comfortably on the wrist, where it will measure the patient's blood pressure with an array of sensors. The sensors will monitor the contact pressure, pulse and blood flow on the surface of the skin near the wrist. To account for the variances of pressure that will occur naturally on the surface of the...

The breathalyzer watch will tell you when Happy Hour starts as well as when it's time to stop drinking. The watch will feature a built-in breathalyzer that can be accessed by uncapping a hole on the side of the watch and breathing over it for five seconds. The watch will then respond with a color-coded screen: green for no alcohol detected, yellow for still within legal limits, and red if legally drunk, and the results will also be displayed a bit more precisely by a bar graph. ...

A new take on the transparent solar cell screen cover could bring solar powered screens to the market sooner than anticipated. The new, lower tech method will involve alternating stripes of thin-film solar cells with transparent film and then adding a layer of tiny lenses. The layer of lenses will help to spread the image on the screen, causing the stripes to become invisible while also concentrating the sun's rays. The technology could extend the battery life of a mobile...

A personal mister will help cyclists keep cool while biking during the hot days of summer. The device will attach to the bike's handlebars and feature a user-controlled spray mechanism. Triggering the spray will draw water from the 100-ml reservoir and send a fine mist over the cyclist with each click. Three or four clicks per minute will be enough to completely moisten the torso and create a cooling effect. The device will be removed from the handlebars with a quick release, and...

A new breed of artificial trees able to scrub carbon dioxide from the air could help to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The air filtering device will feature strands of a resin-based material that will attract the CO2 and bind to it - capturing the carbon dioxide directly from the air and creating bicarbonate salt. It could take as many as 10 million 'artificial trees' to lower the atmospheric CO2 concentrations by 0.5ppm per year. While this application may be a bit in the...

Why not develop a way to make raw oysters a bit safer to eat by zapping them with electron-beams, which will kill more bacteria than conventional pasteurization. Raw oysters carry a particular risk, and can harbor viruses such as the norovirus, which has no treatment or vaccine. To destroy these bacteria and viruses, which often survive even after pasteurization by heating or pressure, it is now possible to subject the oysters to a beam of electrons. A dose of just under 5...