Tag: smartphones

This First Transgender Doll Aims to Educate Kids About Gender Identity

To an adult, a child's toy may appear to be nothing but a colorful piece of plastic that clutters the lounge room floor. But in reality, a simple toy can be an incredibly powerful educational tool for the young minds that engage with them. That's why a toy manufacturer in Canada has developed Sam, the world's first transgender doll. Sam is designed to educate, not...

This New Digital Urn Makes us Approach Death in a Radically Different Way

The traditions of burial and cremation after death are near universal practices that have come to be recognized as fundamentally human signs of respect for our dead. We have buried our dead for over 100,000 years and traditions of cremation stretch back 20,000 years; these are ancient signals of love, empathy, and belief in afterlife utterly unique to our species and culture. However, as...
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Researchers Accidentally Invent Glass That Repairs Itself When Broken

Sounds like magic? Chemists in Japan have just invented a new type of glass that can heal itself when cracked or broken. All it...

China is Creating a “Social Score” to Rate Citizens and it’s Terrifying

In the first episode of the most recent season of Charlie Brooker's hit dystopian drama Black Mirror, he imagines a society in which every...