ICT International is a research and scientific instrumentation company located in rural Australia exporting sap flow meters to the world. This Sap Flow Meter can directly measure amounts and patterns of water use in real-time to deliver data for planning water use and showing behaviour. With data to show how trees behave collectively, called 'Hydraulic Redistribution' whereby water flows both up, down and horizontally. This dynamic and collective behaviour of trees brings new ways of understanding and managing precious forests. www.ictinternational.com.au
SCEYE is opening up access to the stratosphere using helium filled airships. The stratosphere offers all the benefits of space orbit flight, yet is close enough to carry large payloads of off the shelf equipment, at an altitude of 20km (65,000 ft).The possibilities are endless...There are numerous humanitarian applications, like providing last-mile connectivity and monitoring human trafficking, illegal fishing, and real-time climate emissions.What would you do??
The fact that plastic takes almost forever to degrade is a huge problem, especially since there will come a point in time where we will simply run out of space to keep our plastic trash. While that might provide some relief in the future use of plastics, it doesn’t solve the problem of plastics we have at the moment, but scientists Jenny Yao and Miranda Wang might have come up with a solution.
Facebook has released a new privacy feature called Off-Facebook Activity. The tool lets you see and control data that apps and websites share with Facebook.Click Settings at the top right of Facebook on your personal page. Click Your Facebook Information at the left column then Off- Facebook Activity to review. With the new privacy feature, you can clear the history of apps and websites that have shared your data. Facebook knows the articles users read online and can learn a lot about you from this data. They also know every time you open a site with the Facebook app.
