Wednesday, August 7, 2013

IKEA's Furniture Reality and Anti-Mosquito Patch?

A new virtual reality furniture app and a patch that keeps the mosquitoes off of you are in today's technology news.

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Ikea app

The IKEA furniture app allows a customer to get a sense of the size of the furniture and type of color you would see if it was actually sitting in a living room. It also allows you to rotate the piece of furniture, among other things.

-A patch that keeps you invisible from  mosquitoes. 
A patch that is being developed keeps mosquitoes off of a person. How? This patch takes away your scent with chemical compounds that makes you invisible to those nasty bugs. "The Kite Patch" could change the way diseases like West Nile virus gets around. One patch could keep the mosquitoes away for for about 48 hours. This is still in the development stage, so it still at least a few years away.

Credit to Nbcnews.com for the image.

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