The best household cleaner, germ killer, stain remover is… tap water?

I am  about to introduce a household cleaning paradigm shifter in a bottle. The product you are going to read about is truly remarkable, innovative and game changing if you are into household cleaning or buy any household cleaning products that use chemicals. Using a deceptively simple technology (really it is highly sophisticated and complex) best showcased by none other than Bill Nye the Science Guy in the video below and by reading about it here, a company called ActiveIon has created a battery powered cleaning spray that get this… only uses tap water.

Here is a list of some interesting things this technology is capable of:

activeion

  • It doesn’t just break up dirt and make it easier to clean up but it actually sanitizes killing 99.9% of all bacteria without any chemicals like the ones used in the arsenal of household cleaning products all over your house.
  • Leaves no residue like soapy cleaners, the activated ions in the water actively break apart dirt molecules as the surface is saturated in the end you are just wiping up a water splotch.
  • Think of the environmental impact! If everyone adopted this technology think of the MILLIONS of plastic bottles and harmful chemicals that would stay out of landfills.
  • Because it is just water it is not harmful if ingested. This means you don’t have to lock away all those scary bottles from your kids and pets.

So you might ask, if this really works and if charging water really worked as a good cleaner, somebody would have created this ages ago… Well this is not the case, while the science of electrolysis is over 100 years old ActiveIon only began developing breakthroughs in this science beginning in 2008. The product most likely never took off because of the high price tag at initial release but the prices have since come down as it is more widely adopted and creating a greater economy of scale.

I will leave you with the video and this interesting fact:

The average household spends more than $78 a year on an arsenal of cleaning products like glass cleaner, surface cleaner, sanitizer, wood cleaner, shower cleaner etc… all of which can be eliminated by a single product that is ECO FRIENDLY.

Intuitive computing using the objects around us

Intuitive computing using the objects around us

In a world where we are confined to machines for our technological and informative needs there is a paradigm shift on the horizon where we will actually be able to interact with the physical objects around us and the world of computing will be seamlessly blended with the world of technology and information. This idea of interacting with objects in this way is best described by seeing an example for yourself. In the embedded TED video Pranav Mistry showcases his SixthSense technology that will be used in the future to create a more interactive world. The most amazing thing about his technology is that he will release it as open source software so anything you could imagine doing with a physical object from projecting images on any surface to looking at a map in the newspaper and having real time weather projected onto the surface to pinching text from a physical book and pasting it to the surface of another object or dragging it to your computer screen all with simple intuitive hand gestures will be possible. After watching the video feel free to post useful ways you could see people using this technology in the comments section.

Hypem MP3 track cleaning application

Here it is! The Hype Machine track cleansing application…
Now you can automatically clean up all your mp3’s you download using the technique in my article: http://laymanstech.com/?p=74  by simply selecting the input directory with all your dirty tracks and then a directory to output the clean tracks. This will work on any dirty mp3 files. It grabs the ID3 bits encoded into the file and translates them into Album, Title, Artist etc… then renames the song title and depending on the options you select you can output the file in a folder structure like Artist/Album/NameOfSong.mp3 or just NameOfSong.mp3.

Here it is! The Hype Machine track cleansing application…

Now you can automatically clean up all your mp3’s you download using the technique in my article: http://laymanstech.com/?p=74 by simply selecting the input directory with all your dirty tracks and then a directory to output the clean tracks. This will work on any dirty mp3 files in any input directory you specify in the app. It grabs the ID3 bits encoded into the file and translates them into Album, Title, Artist etc… then renames the song title and depending on the options you select you can output the file in a folder structure like Artist/Album/NameOfSong.mp3 or just NameOfSong.mp3. You can download the source below or the application exe.

Hypeapp

Dirty Tracks (the tracks downloaded off Hype Machine or pandora):

dirtytracks

Clean Tracks (Titles only selected)

cleantracks(songonly)

Clean Tracks added to new directory structure:

cleantracks(directory)