1TB External USB 3.0 Portable Solid State Drive SSD

Interface: USB 3.0 (Up to 572 MB/Sec);SSD provides faster seek time – great for HD video editing;Rock-solid durability – No moving parts, able to withstand high impact (1500Gs operating shock); Aluminum housing provides excellent protection and heat dissipation

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PORTABLE HOME FIRE ESCAPE LADDER

Awareness of risks and potential dangers in and around a home is very important, and preparing and practicing a home fire escape plan is essential and greatly increases the chances of surviving. Be prepared for an emergency with the compact and portable Fire Escape Ladder by Fire Alert, it easily deploys from standard residential windows and is exceptionally strong and durable.

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This Portable Blowtorch Uses Only Water As Fuel

UK-based researchers say their new system is safer and cooler than other gas-fueled metal-melters.  

Researchers from ITM Power, a UK-based clean energy company, say their new blowtorch prototype produces fire using only water as fuel. The electrolyser system turns hydrogen and oxygen gases from water into fuel for the torch using electricity.
SafeFlame is designed for use in brazing, a process similar to welding that joins two metal pieces together by melting another metal joint between them, usually from a metal with a lower melting point like copper. Current brazing systems mostly use flammable gasses like acetylene or propane as fuel for portable torches, which pose a fire and explosion risk in highly pressurized containers. This system stores its fuel in water form, eliminating the explosion risk from pressurized gas. 
This water-fueled torch doesn't burn as hot as other gas torches, so can be used with metals that are more sensitive to heat, and the flame doesn't heat up the body of the torch, according to ITM Power. Plus, it only produces water when it burns. The prototype is being tested by some UK welders now. Euronews reports that it will be available to the public "in the near future."

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PiQx Xcanex – 7 ounce portable book and document scanner could make flatbeds obsolete

Scanners haven’t changed much over the years, despite the fact that technology has moved on. Most business scanners still use slow moving imaging sweeps across a glass platen, which gives great results but is also cumbersome.
The new PiQx Xcanex introduces a fully automated camera capture alternative which combines some very clever software with a lightweight and flexible hardware unit. The result is a unit that can capture 5 book pages a minute, and yet is small enough to attach to a laptop computer.

The real smarts of the system is in the software, which is intelligent enough to detect margins, page edges, orientation and even your fingers, and adjust and remove all unnecessary parts from the captured images automatically. To use the unit you just place the document or book onto the desk, and the scanner focuses, aligns and shoots an image with the 8 megapixel camera and flash.
The software then straightens the image, removes your finger (if you were holding a book page down) and generally tidies up to deliver a flatbed quality image. The demo is very impressive, as you’ll see from the video below which features a chapter of a book being scanned in real time at around 5 ppm.

Nowadays a lot of people do ad hoc document scanning using their phone, and there are some nice apps out there which help to produce great results, but it can be really tedious to do something like a book using a phone camera. This device is a nice portable alternative which could do well in the market, especially in places like libraries where space is at a premium. The product is currently on pre-order for $249.00.

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